Director: AP Nagarajan Stars - Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesh, Savitri, Padmini Thiruvarutchelvar is a Tamil devotional movie following a format I've seen in a few of these already. The film basically consists as a series of vignettes that fit into a sacred piece of literature or poem that is being related by one of the characters. In this particular case, the vignettes get underway when a king (Sivaji Ganesan) embarks on a quest to devote himself to God, beginning this quest with the recitation of a poem about God and a number of his disciples. (I believe the number was 60-something -- quite a few of them.) But the events leading up to this recitation are quite amusing and probably comprise the best part of the film: After witnessing a wonderful bharatanatyam dance by a "Queen of the arts" played by Padmini (see above), the king becomes "mad" with desire to the point where he makes very inappropriate advances on her. The dancer shoots him down rather soundly and brilliantly,! and the king, feeling remorse for being turned into "an animal" by his desire for her, asks his court sage/poet to teach him more about how to renounce such sinful ways and serve God. But the king, still somewhat arrogant, also insists that the poet provide him answers to three questions regarding God: Where can one find God, in what direction is he facing, and what is he doing now? The poet is stunned, unable to think of convincing answers, but his pre-teen granddaughter manages to go in his place
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