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Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen

2017 Tamil film directed by Ezhil

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ27590345 ↗
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Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen (transl. Why fear when Saravanan is here?) is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language supernatural comedy horror film written and directed by S. Ezhil, and produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin. The film stars Udhayanidhi and Regina Cassandra, with Soori and Srushti Dange in supporting roles. It was released on 12 May 2017, and became a box office failure.

Plot

Saravanan is a jobless youth who roams around in a two-wheeler with his friends. Kalyanam decides to be the head of a famous political party called Dho Jindhagi. However, when a drunk photographer incorrectly takes some photos, Kalyanam is targeted by the police. With the help of Saravanan, he goes to Dubai, and it is eventually revealed that Kalyanam had to take care of camels in Dubai. After Kalyanam leaves for Dubai, Saravanan's friends overexaggerate about Saravanan to the head of Dho Jindhagi, who appoints Saravanan as head. Two years later, Saravanan's other uncle and their family come to visit. Saravanan's cousin Thenmozhi also comes and demands his house (which is now a party office) to be cleaned before she comes.

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“Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen” enters the record as 2017 Tamil film directed by Ezhil. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Saravanan, Irukka and Bayamaen can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27590345. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.