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Kamal Haasan initially proposed a film about two men from opposing political backgrounds who become friends, but director K. S. Ravikumar declined to direct it, leading to a different collaboration on Thenali. The film Anbe Sivam was eventually developed with Haasan as the writer and lead actor, and Madhavan was cast alongside him. Despite its production, the film received a mixed review, criticized for its script and direction.

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Kamal Haasan Na-WPS Office

Kamal Haasan initially proposed a film about two men from opposing political backgrounds who become friends, but director K. S. Ravikumar declined to direct it, leading to a different collaboration on Thenali. The film Anbe Sivam was eventually developed with Haasan as the writer and lead actor, and Madhavan was cast alongside him. Despite its production, the film received a mixed review, criticized for its script and direction.

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Kamal Haasan narrated the premise of a film to the director K. S.

Ravikumar as they sought to


collaborate following Avvai Shanmugi (1996). The initial script followed two men who meet in a train,
quarrel, become friends and ultimately, one of them sacrifices everything for the other man. One
individual was a Sri Lankan Tamil communist, while the other was a person who followed a right-wing
political belief. Haasan had wanted to act in the film alongside Mohanlal, but Ravikumar refused the
opportunity, saying it was not his usual film genre of expertise.[19] Haasan and Ravikumar instead
moved on to work on a different project titled Thenali (2000) and chose to make the film's title character
a Sri Lankan Tamil as discussed in the earlier script.[20]

After completing the draft for the film's script with alterations in early 2002, Haasan approached the
Malayalam filmmaker Priyadarshan to direct it. The two men were keen to work together since the
latces.[23] Sundar C came in as a replacement to work on the film.[24] Anbe Sivam was co-produced and
distributed by V. Swaminathan, K. Muralitharan and G. Venugopal under the production banner of
Lakshmi Movie Makers.[6][25]

Cast and crew

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In addition to being the film's writer, Haasan also played the central character, Nallasivam. Madhavan
was selected to play Anbarasu in January 2002.[26] According to Kiran Rathod, she received a phone call
from Haasan's office informing her that she was offered the role of Balasaraswathi, which she accepted.
[27] Rathod's voice in the film was dubbed by the singer Anuradha Sriram.[28] Uma Riyaz Khan played
the role of Nallasivam's friend and professional colleague, Mehrunissa.[29] In a 2019 interview with The
Indian Express, the film's script assistant and costume designer, Sujatha Narayanan, revealed that
Nandita Das and Shobana were the original choices for Balasaraswathi and Mehrunissa respectively and
that both of them declined due to schedule conflicts.[16]

Ramanan of Planet Bollywood rated the film 5.5 out of 10, saying, "The film falls flat on its face because
of its failure in the two most important departments of filmmaking – scriptwriting, and direction [...] It
almost seems as if Kamal Haasan and Suresh Krishna were high on drugs w

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