Sathyavan Savithiri trailer: Keerthy Suresh takes on Mysskin
A forced marriage, a husband accused of murder, and her own senior arguing against her. The myth had Yama; Keerthy gets Mysskin, from November 20.
The Sathyavan Savithiri trailer is out, and it turns the old story inside out. In the legend, Savitri argues her husband back from Yama. In Praveen S Vijaay’s debut, Keerthy Suresh’s Savithiri has to argue hers out of a murder charge, and the man standing between them is Mysskin, playing her own senior in the profession.
The 2 minute 34 second cut opens light. Savithiri is a young lawyer with career plans and no interest in marriage, and her parents marry her off anyway. Her husband Deepak (Charukesh) doesn’t push; he keeps a respectful distance, and the trailer lets her thaw towards him in a run of small, almost sitcom moments. Then a woman named Veronica turns up dead, Deepak is the accused, and the film changes key.
What follows is a courtroom face-off with a wide gap in experience. Savithiri has nerve and very little track record. Mysskin’s Markandeyan is the seasoned hand who knows every corner of that courtroom, and the trailer cuts their exchanges as a mismatch on paper. It is a very different register from Keerthy’s last outing, Karthik Subbaraj’s Dorothy. The trailer also keeps one thread deliberately loose: it never quite clears Deepak, and it gives the people around Veronica enough shadow to make the whodunit a real question rather than a formality. A title card sums up the pitch without subtlety: beloved wife stands against the system.
Bala Saravanan, Shilpa Manjunath, Deepa Shankar, Madhusudhanan, R Sundarrajan and Maala Parvathi fill out the supporting cast. Sam CS composes the songs and score, with lyrics by Mohan Raja, Uma Devi and the director. Arul Vincent shoots, Prasanna GK edits, and Prem Karunthamalai and AM Anandharaj handle art direction. Vedikkaranpatti S Sakthivel produces, with S Vaishnavi Vivekchandar as co-producer.
The film was first set up as a junior-versus-senior courtroom story when its second-look poster put Keerthy in a sea of black robes back in May. The trailer confirms the case at the centre is personal. Sathyavan Savithiri opens in theatres on November 20, the same day as Dhanush’s OM, which makes it the smaller film walking into a big-star weekend: David versus Goliath on screen and off it.
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