Shivalinga (2017 film)

Shivalinga
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	P. Vasu
Written by	P. Vasu
Produced by	R. Ravindran
Starring	Raghava Lawrence Shakthi Ritika Singh Radha Ravi Vadivelu Urvashi
Cinematography	Sarvesh Murari
Edited by	Suresh Urs
Music by	S. S. Thaman
Production company	Trident Arts
Distributed by	Across Films (Tamil), Abishek Pictures (Telugu)
Release date	14 April 2017
Running time	156 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Sivalinga is Tamil action horror comedy film directed by P. Vasu, starring Raghava Lawrence and Ritika Singh in the leading roles. A remake of Vasu's earlier 2016 Kannada film of the same name, the project began production in July 2016. The climax revelation scene was reported to have similarities with director's own 1999 movie Malabar Police.

Cast

• Raghava Lawrence as Shivalingeswaran
• Shakthi Vasudevan as Raheem
• Ritika Singh as Sathyabhama
• Radharavi as Krishnamoorthy
• Vadivelu as Pattukunjam
• Santhana Bharathi as Raheem's father
• Jayaprakash as Mr Viswanathan
• VTV Ganesh as N.Murali
• Urvashi as Arasuvai Annalakshmi
• Bhanupriya as Sarala
• Saara Deva as Sangeetha
• Madhuvanti Arun
• Bharathi
• Pradeep Rawat as Baba
• Zakir Hussain as Pigeon Race Organizer
• Danny Kuttappa
• P. Vasu in a cameo appearance in song Saarah Saarah

Plot

Raheem (Shakthi Vasudevan) and his well-trained pigeon Saara are alone in a coach aboard a train when a blind man enters and reached to an open door. Raheem saves the man, but the man, a killer, who in turn throws Raheem off the moving train to his death. Raheem's death is ruled a suicide, but Raheem's fiancee Sangeetha (Saara Deva) knows that Raheem had no reason to kill himself. The same night, Raheem appears in Sangeetha's dream and says that he was murdered. The following day, Raheem's case is forwarded to the CID at Sangeetha's request.

Sivalingeshwaran aka Sivalingesh (Raghava Lawrence) is a strict CID officer who is married to a thrill-seeker named Sathya (Ritika Singh). The two in a house live near a cemetery. Shiva is assigned Raheem's case and begins the investigation. The same night, Satya sees a ghost of child, and Sathya is frightened by this. Shiva, however, cannot see that ghost and thinks that Satya is imagining it. The following day, Shiva visits Raheem's home to investigate Raheem's relationship with his father and with Sangeetha. Shiva suspects Sangeetha's father Krishnamoorthy (Radha Ravi) is responsible for Raheem's death as he disapproved Raheem- Sangeetha's love.

Satya's behavior becomes erratic. She drives around the city while wearing a black dress, she's redecorated the house with green curtains and lights, and she has cooked Biriyani, even though she has never made the dish before. Later a house servant Pattukunjam (Vadivelu) and a few other maids tell Shiva about Satya's strange behavior. Shiva meets his friend Ashok, who is a psychiatrist. He advises Shiva to observe her behavior secretly. That night, Shiva returns home early. He hears a man's voice and smells a cigar burning. He heads to Satya's room and is shocked to discover that Raheem's soul has possessed Satya's body. Raheem warns Shiva, that he must solve Raheem's murder.

Shiva accesses the security footage at the railway station and discovers that the person act as blind man is the killer. Shiva tracks down the killer and chases him, finally cornering him on a train coach with no passengers. Satya, who is still possessed by Raheem, enters and demands to know why the man killed him. The man tries to escape by jumping out of the moving train, but falls to his death. Shiva takes Satya to Darga, where they meet and informs Satya's mother Sarala (Bhanupriya) only. Baba (Pradeep Rawat) helps them to exorcise Raheem' soul out but temporary. He tells Shiva that solving Raheem case is the only solution for saving Satya. Shiva starts the investigation piece by piece, and Raheem's pigeon Sara helps Shiva by giving clues. Shiva interrogates Satya at the CID Conference Hall regarding Raheem. Satya reveals that the deceased person (Raheem) gets her iPad,which was robbed by a pickpocketer and returns it back. Satya gets a snap of Raheem for the sake of friendship. Satya's friend was felt jealous, while getting a snap of Raheem {This guy was loving Satya and Satya denied his love}. With a wrath of ruining Satya's life, the guy had made a call to Satya's residential landline. It was Satya's father Viswanathan (Jayaprakash), who was spying on Satya's activities, lifted the call and heard the entire conversation, which made him wrath to harm the innocent Raheem. Then after unveiling the truth, the ghost of Raheem possess Satya and threatens everyone present in the hall. Satya's father begs for forgiveness as he intended to harm Raheem but not to kill him. Then, it is revealed that a pigeon race organiser (Zakir Hussain) hired the assassin (who acted as blind man) to kill Raheem as Raheem and Saara are the continuous champions of the pigeon race which drives the organiser in jealousy. Sivalinga begs to leave Satya's body and allows him to possess Sivalinga in order to provide justice to Raheem, the possessed Sivalinga kills the pigeon race organiser. In the end credits, Sivalinga and a pregnant Satya get reunited.

Production

Following the success of P. Vasu's Kannada horror film, Shivalinga (2016), the filmmaker chose to remake the project in Tamil. Vasu initially tried to market the project as Chandramukhi 2, as a spiritual sequel to Chandramukhi (2005), and approached Rajinikanth to portray the lead role. However, the actor did not accept to work on the project, while reports suggested that Vasu may approach Ajith Kumar for the film. In March 2016, Raghava Lawrence accepted to work on the film, while Vadivelu was also signed on to appear in a role thereafter. After negotiations with Anushka Shetty and Hansika Motwani, Vasu chose to sign on Ritika Singh for the female lead role. Vasu's son, Shakthi, was also added to the cast to reprise the role he had portrayed in the original version. Shakthi revealed that his character would have more prominence in the Tamil version, in comparison with the Kannada version.

The film was launched in a ceremony during mid July 2016, with Radharavi, Bhanupriya and Urvashi revealed to be a part of the cast. The film's first schedule was completed in Bangalore during August 2016.

Soundtrack

Untitled

Tamil

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Chinna Kabali"	Viveka	S. S. Thaman	Shankar Mahadevan, Naveen, Arunraja Kamaraj	4:37
2.	"Sirika Vechu"	Viveka	S. S. Thaman	Vijay Yesudas, Ramya Behra	4:17
3.	"Rangu Rakkara"	Viveka	S. S. Thaman	Anirudh Ravichander , Geetha Madhuri	4:29
4.	"Sivalinga"	Viveka	S. S. Thaman	Usha Uthup, Kalpana, Sri Krishna	3:42
5.	"Saarah Saarah"	Viveka	S. S. Thaman	Rahul Nambiar	4:17

Telugu

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Chinna Kabali"	Ramajogayya Sastry	S. S. Thaman	Shankar Mahadevan,Srikrishana, Saketh Komanduri, Aditya Iyengar, Anuraga Kulkarni	4:37
2.	"Nallanivade"	Ramajogayya Sastry	S. S. Thaman	Srikrishana, Ramya Behera	4:17
3.	"Rangu Rakkara"	Ramajogayya Sastry	S. S. Thaman	Aditya Iyengar, Geetha Madhuri	4:29
4.	"Sivalinga"	Ramajogayya Sastry	S. S. Thaman	Usha Uthup, Sri Krishna, Geetha Madhuri, Adithya Iyengar, Saketh Komanduri, Anurag Kulkarni	3:42
5.	"Saarah Saarah"	Ramajogayya Sastry	S. S. Thaman	Deepu, Srikrishana, Hymanth, Raghuram, Revanth, Arun Koundinya	4:20

External links

• Shivalinga at IMDb