Aindhaam Thalaimurai Sidha Vaidhiya Sigamani

Aindhaam Thalaimurai Sidha Vaidhiya Sigamani is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language comedy film written and directed by L. G. Ravichandar. The film features Bharath, making it his 25th project as an actor and Nandita Swetha in the leading roles, while Simon composes the film's music. The film was released on 22 August 2014 received mixed to positive reviews and it was a commercial success at the box office.

Plot
The movie starts off with Sigamani as a young student refusing to go to school. His father, after having heated arguments with the school teacher, says his son does not have to go to school. Thus, Sigamani grows up illiterate and uneducated. After 25 years, he has grown up to be a siddha vaithiyar, following his family's roots. There is also a marriage broker in this story, Vijay Sethupathy, who tries hard to find an educated girl for Sigamani, but he is unable to. Due to the fact that Sigamani is uneducated, he is easily cheated by his friends. His only trustable friend is Paalpandi. In desperation to marry an educated girl, Sigamani plans to wait outside a college to find a girl to love. He then sees Nandini and decides to go after her. One day, Sigamani and Paalpandi follow Nandini and end up in her house. After listening to an unknown phone call, Nandini's father Chinnadurai mistakes Sigamani to be a doctor who has studied MBBS and arranges for the marriage, which also takes place successfully and Sigamani is happy as his dream of marrying an educated girl has come true. Before the interval, Ravichandar places another major twist in the story to keep the audience in the edge of their seats.

Cast

 * Bharath as Aindhaam Thalaimurai Sidha Vaidhiya Sigamani 'aka' Sigamani
 * Nandita Swetha as Nandini
 * Karunakaran as Paalpandi
 * Thambi Ramaiah as Silambu Chinnadurai
 * Rajendran
 * Badava Gopi as Sigamani's friend
 * Imman Annachi as Sivakarthikeyan
 * Singampuli as Vijay Sethupathy
 * Manobala as Soori
 * Kadhal Dhandapani as Sigamani's father
 * Renuka as Sigamani's mother
 * M. S. Bhaskar
 * Mayilsamy as Bhai
 * Soundararaja as Thiru
 * Komal Kumar as Dr. Sathish Kumar
 * Bose Venkat as Trust Manager
 * Kottachi as Sivagami's friend
 * Pandu
 * Dr. Sharmila
 * Chaams
 * Junior Balaiah
 * Madhan Bob
 * Crane Manohar
 * Kovai Senthil
 * Ravi Venkataraman as Police Officer
 * Bayilvan Ranganathan
 * Robert (cameo in "Onnuna Rendu Varum")
 * Gaana Bala (cameo in "Ainthaam Thalaimurai Siddha Vaidhya Sigaamani")
 * Yabama JO (cameo in "Ainthaam Thalaimurai Siddha Vaidhya Sigaamani")

Production
In December 2013, it was reported that Bharath and Nandita would come together for a comedy film to be directed by L. G. Ravichandran. The film, funded by Rajam Productions, was told to be a comic tale on the life of an illiterate husband (Bharath) and an educated wife (Nandita). Twenty one comedy actors with Kannada actor Komal Kumar being one of them (in his 100th film and Tamil debut) were signed for the film, with the director announcing that the film would run along the lines of Kadhalikka Neramillai (1964) and Ullathai Allitha (1996).

The film is set in Salem and 25 days of shoot was completed in Coimbatore, Pollachi, Pazhani and Dindiugal. The satellite rights were sold to Polimer TV

Soundtrack
Film score and soundtrack of Ainthaam Thalaimurai Siddha Vaidhya Sigaamani is composed by Simon of Ainthu Ainthu Ainthu fame. The songs were written by Yugabharathi and the Elarai song written and sung by Gana Bala also featured Yabama JO, a Congo-based singer. The audio was released by veteran director Padmashree K. Balachander himself. The launch of the film's album was held on 2 July 2014.Simon's music, won a lot of positive response and was widely appreciated. A review stated "Simon continues to show promise after Ainthu Ainthu Ainthu!." and "A good different genre catchy album from music director Simon after 555.". The music was also greatly appreciated by veteran Director K. Balachander, as he stated "I myself felt like dancing to those tunes.". The album also featured Music Director Vijay Antony, crooning a complete song for the first time, for a different composer.

Release
The film was later dubbed into Hindi as ATM by Goldmines Telefilms in 2017.

Critical reception
Times of India wrote:"ATSVS is a film so dated that by the interval the reek of staleness is so strong that we start looking at the ticket to see if there was an expiry date mentioned". Behindwoods wrote:"In short ATSVS achieves fairly what it sets out to. If you are the type who would not take cinema seriously, ATSVS may appeal to you in some ways". Indiaglitz wrote:"ATSVS is nothing but a customary comical movie".