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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Aanivaer<br />
| image = Aanivaer_Movie_Poster.jpg<br />
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| director = [[John Mahendran]]<br />
| producer = C. Prabhakaran<br />
| writer = John Mahendran<br />
| starring = [[Nandha (actor)|Nandha]]<br>[[Madhumitha]]<br>[[Neelima Rani]]<br>Mullai Yesudasan<br />
| music = Satheesh<br />
| cinematography = Komagan<br />
| editing =<br />
| distributor = Thamizh Thiraikkann<br />
| released = {{Film date|df=y|2006|9|23}}<br />
| runtime =<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Tamil<br />
| budget =<br />
| gross =<br />
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'''''Aanivaer''''' is a 2006 Tamil-language [[independent film|independent]] [[war film]] directed by [[John Mahendran]] starring [[Nandha (actor)|Nandha]], [[Madhumitha]], [[Neelima Rani]], and Mullai Yesudasan. The music was composed by Satheesh. The film was released on 23 September 2006. Shot entirely in the then [[LTTE]] controlled [[Vanni (Sri Lanka)|Vanni]] in Sri Lanka, it includes scenes about the exodus of Tamil people from Jaffna to Vanni after the fall of Jaffna to the Sri Lankan Army in 1995 and the rape and murder of Tamil school [[Krishanthi Kumaraswamy]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/lankan-party-eyes-tamil-film-industry/story-IfFN7VDwMt5Glmfj2mADFN.html | title=Lankan party eyes Tamil film industry | publisher=Hindustan Times | work=PK Balachandran | date=9 February 2007 | accessdate=6 July 2021}}</ref> the film was initially released for screening in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia only. It was later released in India as well.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Dr. Nandha ([[Nandha (actor)|Nandha]]) works at a small makeshift hospital that serves as the only option for the wounded and the dying from the war. He refuses to leave his motherland for greener pastures and sets out to serve his people. Journalist Sandhya ([[Madhumitha]]) comes from India for a cover story on the ethnic strife, but the witnessing of every possible cruelty inflicted on the people is too much to take. Having personally experienced the pitiful plight of the Tamils in [[Sri Lanka]], [[Zambia]], [[Papua New Guinea]], [[Brunei]], and [[Nigeria]], she goes back to South India with a heavy heart. Sandhya returns to Vanni for the second time with a view to meeting Nandha, whom she had met and loved on her first visit. Her initial enquiries to find out the whereabouts of Nandha prove difficult, but she continues.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Nandha (actor)|Nandha]] as Dr. Nandha<br />
* [[Madhumitha]] as Sandhya<br />
* [[Neelima Rani]] as Sivashanthi<br />
* Mullai Yesudasan<br />
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==Production==<br />
The film was shot in [[Sri Lanka]] with a story and screenplay revolving around a love story amid the then ongoing [[Sri Lankan Civil War|Civil War in Sri Lanka]]. Distributed by an independent distribution company, Thamizh Thiraikkann, the film was released in Tamil diaspora areas in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|title=Aanivaer - "Tap Root" - Movie A Brief Eye View|url=http://www.tamilsydney.com/content/view/44/37/|publisher=Tamil Sydney|accessdate=9 May 2013|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204804/http://www.tamilsydney.com/content/view/44/37/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The film was released in India the following year.<ref name=TheHinduNewsArticle>{{cite news|last=Rangarajan|first=Malathi|title=Window to a little-known world|url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2007/08/17/stories/2007081751390300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015102305/http://hindu.com/fr/2007/08/17/stories/2007081751390300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 October 2007|accessdate=9 May 2013|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=17 August 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://tamilnation.org/media/tamil/aaniver.htm | title=ஆணிவேர் - Aanivaer | publisher=TamilNation | accessdate=6 July 2021}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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{{Sri Lankan Civil War in Popular Culture}}<br />
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[[Category:2006 films]]<br />
[[Category:Sri Lankan Civil War in film]]<br />
[[Category:Films shot in Sri Lanka]]<br />
[[Category:2000s Tamil-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in Sri Lanka (1948–present)]]<br />
[[Category:2006 drama films]]<br />
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