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Anbe Sivam

Anbe Sivam

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Anbe Sivam

2003

2h 40m

7.7(88 votes)

Comedy

Drama

Overview

Anbarasu, young and arrogant, and Nallasivam, damaged - physically but not spiritually - by life, are thrown together by circumstances, and find that they are in some ways bound together by fate.

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10 featured cast members

Starring

Kamal Haasan

Kamal Haasan

Nalla Sivam

R. Madhavan

R. Madhavan

Anbarasu

Nassar

Nassar

Kandasamy Padayachi

Kiran Rathod

Kiran Rathod

Bala

Santhana Bharathi

Santhana Bharathi

Kandasamy Padayachi's Assistant

Seema

Seema

Balasaraswathi's Mother

Yugi Sethu

Yugi Sethu

Uthaman

R.S. Shivaji

R.S. Shivaji

Railway Station master

Vichu Vishwanath

Vichu Vishwanath

Padayatchi's assistant

Balu Anand

Balu Anand

Train Ticket checker for the Coromandel Express[

Creative team

Directed by: Sundar C
Written by: Kamal Haasan
Produced by: G. Venugopal
V. Swaminathan

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