Shivaji - The Boss Review

Review of the much awaited Rajnikanth starrer 'Shivaji' will be available on Just-Tollywood.blogspot.com on May 31, 2007 at 2 p.m.

Cast: Rajnikanth (as Shivaji), Shreya (as Tamizh), Suman (villain), Raghuvaran (lawyer), Prakash Raj, Vivek, Suman, Nayanthara, Manivannan, Raju sundaram, Kanal Kannan, Revathi Menon, MS Bhaskar, Livingston, Kannal Kannan, Vadivukarasi, Pyramid Natarajan, Uma Padmanabhan, Pattimanram Raja, Salaman Papaiya, Prabu, Mayilswamy, Chinni Jayanth, and Shankar.

Crew
Director, Story, and Screenplay - S. Shankar
Banner - AVM Productions
Producer (in telugu) - Bellamkonda Suresh
Producer (original) - M.S. Guhan, M. Saravanan, and S.P. Muthuraman
Music - A.R. Rehman
Cinematographer - K. V. Anand
Art Director - Thota Tharani
Costume Designer - Manish Malhotra
Choreographer - Prabhudeva, Lawrence Raghavendhra, and Raju Sundaram
Editor - Anthony
Sound Mixer - Abe Dolinger
Digital Colorist - Ken Metzker
Stunts - Peter Hein
Assistant Directors - J.D. Jerry, Balaji Saktivel, Hosimin, and Gandhi Krishna

Story

RajiniKanth (Sivaji) is a great businessman. He is The Boss of the company since he owns it. Suman is his manager plays a double role against RajiniKanth and ruins his business and makes Sivaji go to jail for the mistake that he has not performed. Rajini with the help of Vivek and Shriya hires a good criminal lawyer and comes out of jail in bail.

The role of the criminal lawyer is played by Raghuvaran. Rajini comes out of jail and takes revenge on people who were responsible for all of his sufferings. Rajini learns more about life when he is in jail and so after his release he does a lot of charity work to people who are in need. In the end with Raghuvaran helps him to regain all his lost property and Rajini becomes the boss again.

Trivia

• Sivaji is AVM production’s 168th venture.
• For Superstar RajiniKanth, Sivaji is his 9th movie with AVM productions.
• For director Shankar this is his 9th movie in his directional career and first movie with AVM productions.
• Superstar’s Rajinikanth’s lucky number is nine.
• This movie bears the title Sivaji after the name of the legend of Tamil cinema Shivaji Ganesan who started his career in Tamil cinema through the movie Parasakthi which was AVM productions.
• Superstar’s real name is Sivaji Rao Gaekwad.
• Sivaji is the 100th Tamil movie for Rajinikanth.
• The Telugu right is handed over to the producer Bellam Konda Suresh for 14 crores. This does not include Audio and satellite rights.
• Rajini has sung a song in this movie which is his second attempt of playback singing.