title: Sabari
text: Sabari is a 2007 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by Suresh. It stars Vijayakanth as the title character with Jyothirmayi, Malavika and Pradeep Rawat in supporting roles. The film was released on 16 March 2007 to mixed reviews.
  
  Plot
  Sabarivasan (Vijayakanth) is a doctor by profession and cannot tolerate injustice by any means. Nandhini (Jyothirmayi), a college student, meets Sabari and falls in love with him. Eventually they both get married. Vajravelu (Rawat) is a local criminal working for a minister (Mahadevan). Vajravelu's brother-in-law Ezhumalai (Aryan) is arrested by the police for a brutal murder. While trying to escape on the way to court, he is shot by a policeman. Vajravelu's henchmen take Ezhumalai to Sabari and force him to operate. Sabari removes the bullet, but he beats up all the henchmen and produces Ezhumalai to the police. Ezhumalai is sentenced to death and is hanged.
  
  Vajravelu is angry and vows revenge. Vajravelu comes out on bail and kills Sabari's father (Delhi Ganesh). He also kidnaps Nandhini. Sabari fights against Vajravelu and saves Nandhini. On the way back to the hospital, Sabari is stabbed by Vajravelu's wife (Aishwarya). Vajravelu and his henchmen arrive and injure Sabari. They leave thinking Sabari is dead, but he is saved and admitted to hospital. Knowing this, Vajravelu comes in search of Sabari. Sabari fights them back and kills Vajravelu.
  
  Cast
  
   Vijayakanth as Dr. Sabarivasan
   Jyothirmayi as Nandhini
   Malavika as Doctoral student
   Pradeep Rawat as Vajravelu
   Mahadevan as Minister
   Delhi Ganesh as Sabarivasan's father
   Aryan as Ezhumalai
   LIC Narasimhan as Doctor
   Scissor Manohar as Party member
   R. N. R. Manohar as Dr. Manohar
   Aishwarya as Vajravelu's wife
   Rajashree as Maragadham
   Reena as Sabarivasan's sister
   Ayyappan Gopi as Brake inspector
   Robo Chandru as Inspector Vasudevan
   Rajendranath as Commissioner of police
   Sindhu as Vajravelu's sister
   Vatsala Rajagopal as Nandhini's grandmother
   Boys Rajan as Dr. Rajan
   Mudhalvan Mahendran as Police inspector
   Theni Murugan as Arumugam
   Raviprakash as Inspector general of police 
   Vishwanth as Sri Lankan Tamil man
   Archana Harish as Sri Lankan Tamil woman
  
  Production
  The film was launched at AVM Studios in 2006. Shooting was done at locations in India including Chennai, Pondicherry and Rameswaram. Songs for the film were shotin Hong Kong.
  
  Soundtrack
  Soundtrack was composed by Mani Sharma.
  
  Critical reception
  Indiaglitz wrote, "It's Vijayakanth all the way who with his brainy and brawny ways restores order in the society." Behindwoods wrote, "All in all, disappointing is too kind a word to use for this kind of a movie. It is hard to imagine what the director, actor and producer had in mind when the movie was made." It summed up, "Sabari: an absolute dud." The hindu wrote "Now having said all these you can only add that Vijayakanth could have gone in for an innovative storyline, far removed from the run-of-the-mill rut".
  
  References
  
  2007 films
  2000s Tamil-language films
  Films scored by Mani Sharma
  Indian action films
  2000s masala films
  Films shot in Chennai
  Films shot in Hong Kong
  2007 action films