Naveena Sadaram is a 1935 Tamil language film directed and produced by Krishnaswami Subrahmanyam.
A woman named Sadaram (S. D. Subbulakshmi) disguises herself as a man to escape from the clutches of a petty thief (G. Pattu Iyer).
She encounters a princess (Parvathi Bai) who falls in love with the man unaware that 'he' is also a woman.
The prefix "Naveena" was placed before Sadaram because at the time, many stories having the same plot details were adapted for the screen by more than one producer, the later film versions of the stories placed the prefix "Naveena" to signify it was a newer version than the previous ones.
[2] Randor Guy notes that the film is "remembered for the double role of Subbulakshmi, deft direction of Subramanyam and the off-screen prayer song.