Pandiya's kingdom) is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by Suseenthiran and produced by Vishal, who stars in the lead role alongside Lakshmi Menon, Bharathiraja, Soori, Vikranth, and Sharath Lohitashwa.
It was dubbed in Hindi as Shiva Ka Badla and remade in Kannada as Rudra Tandava with Chiranjeevi Sarja.
Sivakumar is a meek person who owns a cellphone sales and service center in Madurai with his friend and sidekick Ganesan.
Ravi forces the hit squad organizer to make his client arrive at the bus stand on the pretext of returning the money.
Kalyanasundaram falls unconscious due to the health problems until a masked Siva defeats Ravi's men and takes him to the hospital.
Siva and Ganesan, who had retrieved the money, learns about Kalyanasundaram lamenting about his foiled plan to finish Ravi.
Lakshmi Menon was selected to play the love interest of Vishal, and D. Imman was signed to score the music.
[12] The audio was launched on 13 October 2013,[13] at Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai, with the presence of the film's cast and crew.
[14] Behindwoods gave 2.75 out of 5 to the album stating "Trademark Imman sounds packed with some amount of punch.
The Times of India gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote "Suseenthiran gives us a smartly-written action drama, but the film’s sore point is the romantic track.
"[22] S. Saraswathi of Rediff gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote "What makes Pandiya Naadu remarkable is the director’s realistic approach and the right amount of commercialism supported by a well-written script, good dialogues, great music and excellent all–round performances.
"[23] Behindwoods gave 3.25/5 stars and wrote "Pandiya Naadu is a well written commercial film backed by remarkable performances and lives up to its dark-horse label prior to its release.
"[24] Baradwaj Rangan of The Hindu wrote "Suseenthiran stages the genre staples well enough — the fight in a bus station; the suspense around an assassination attempt in a theatre — but what he does around these generic scenarios is this movie’s secret strength.
[26][27] After seven weeks, the total collections at the Chennai box office were estimated at ₹3.81 crores and the film was termed a Super hit by Behindwoods.com.