Sivaji - The Boss :: A Movie Review

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Movie: Sivaji - The Boss (2007)
Cast: 'Super Star' Rajinikanth, Shriya Saran, Suman, Prakash Raj, Revathi Menon, Vivek, M.S. Baskar, Manivannan, Raghuvaran, Raju Sundaram, Livingstone, Kannal Kannan, Vadivukarasi, Pyramid Natarajan
Special Appearance: Nayanthara & Mallika Sherawat
Direction: S. Shankar
Assistant Director: Balaji Sakthivel
Producer: M.S. Guhan, M. Saravanan & S.P Muthuraman (AVM Productions)
Cinematography: K.V. Anand
Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Lawrence Raghavendra & Prabhu Deva
Stunt: Peter Hein
Editing: Anthony
Music: 'Isai Puyal' A.R. Rahman

Movie Info :

Rajinikanth's mega blockbuster movie Sivaji with ostentatious director Shankar and veteran music director AR Rahman have come together for this Magnum Opus. 'Vaa..ji, Vaa..ji Sivaji - a song sequence shot at the Ramoji Rao Film City at Hyderabad with sets reportedly costing Rs. 2.75 crores. The crew of the movie is under strict orders not to divulge any information about the film, its story or about the events on the sets. Still, some local magazines have managed to acquire pictures of the sets. This angered the director and AVM so much that the director is now planning to completely ban the use of camera-phones on the sets.

Names of many popular actresses, including Sadha, Trisha, Asin, Nayantara, Manisha Koirala and Shilpa Shetty were considered for making the item number in the film. But, finally, Mallika Sherawat, was reportedly selected to make a very special appearance in the song sequence. Later on, it was reported that Nayantara will also be doing an item number in Sivaji. Actress Sandhya dubs her voice for Shriya in the film.

The Telugu dubbing rights of this movie has been sold to producer Bellam Konda Suresh for a price of Rs.8 crores (excluding Audio and satellite rights).
Rajinikanth, himself, sings a song in this movie. This is his second attempt at playback singing after a song in a previous film of his, Mannan.

This is the eighth film that music director and composer A.R. Rahman is working with director Shankar and the fourth film with Rajinikanth. This is the third time costume designer Manish Malhotra is working with director Shankar. This is said to be Indian Cinema's most expensive movie. The budget is at approximately Rs.42 crores.

Rajini, being the highest paid actor in India, will be receiving a paycheck higher than what he ever got for this film. Out of Sivaji’s budget, Rajini takes home close to 20 crores. For the first time Rajini tonsured his head for this movie.

Overseas distribution rights have been sold to Ayngaran International for approximately $275,000. Tokens being sold for fans in india to see Sivaji. 20 tickets for 1600 Indian rupee token.

The Complete list of songs are as follows:

- Balleilakka : (S.P. Balasubramaniam, Raihanah, Benny & Chorus)
Additional Voices: Swetha & Darshana
- Athiradee : (A.R. Rahman & Sayanora)
Additional Voices: Karthik, Mohammed Aslam & Naresh Iyer
Additional Production: Ranjith Barot
- Vaaji Vaaji : (Hariharan, Madhusree & Chorus)
Arabic Vocals: Agfani
- Sahana : (Udit Narayanan & Chinmayi)
- Style : (Rags, Blaaze, Tanvi & Suresh Peters)
- The Boss : (Blaaze, Naresh Iyer & Raqueeb Alam)
- Sahara : (Vijay Yesudass, Gomathi Sree & Chorus)

Lyricist: Vaali, Vairamuthu, Na. Muthukumar, Pa. Vijay & Traditional Lyrics of Thiruppaavai
Musicians' Coordinators: Samidurai, Ganesh (Toronto)
Recorded & Mixed at: Panchathan Record Inn, A.M Studios (Chennai), Phase One Studios (Toronto)
Nathaswaram: Natarajan
Guitar: Ivan
Strings Orchestrated & Conducted by: Srinivasmurthy
Music Assistants: Satish Chakravathy & Krishna Chetan
Recording Engineers: S. Sivakumar, Karthik, V. Mohammed Saifiullah
Mixing Engineers: H. Sridhar & K.J. Singh
Mastering Engineers: H. Sridhar & S. Sivakumar