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Vikram and Sara Arjun in Deiva Thirumagal (2011)

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Deiva Thirumagal



    Yes, it is. But it is quite unofficial and producers of "Deiva Thirumagal" didn't give credit to the original one.



    * In both movies, the principal protagonist is a mentally handicapped man raising his normal young daughter alone, then having the daughter forcibly taken away from him and how his feisty lawyer helps to restore the girl to him through a tough court battle. In Deiva Thirumagal, the mentally handicapped person is Krishna (Vikram) and in the Hollywood original I Am Sam its Sam (Sean Penn).

    * In both movies, the handicapped man works in the food business (coffee shop in I Am Sam and chocolate factory in Deiva Thirumagal).

    * In both movies, the handicapped man is reminded to go to hospital to meet the mother of the child whos in labor.

    * In both movies, the handicapped the mother disappears from the scene soon after the little girl is born.

    * In both movies, the handicapped man plays bedtime games with his daughter.

    * In both movies, the little girl asks simple questions for which the mentally handicapped father has no answers.

    * In both movies, our handicapped hero has four mentally handicapped friends.

    * In both movies, theres a helpful neighbor woman who gives tips to the handicapped man in raising the kid.

    * In both movies, the four handicapped friends pitch in money at the shoe store when the handicapped hero falls short of money to buy school shoes for his daughter.

    * In both movies, the lawyer for the handicapped man is initially reluctant to take up the case but subsequently relents.

    * In both movies, the four handicapped friends come to court to testify in the custody dispute.

    * In both movies, the handicapped man is forced to take the stand in the court battle and gets badgered by the opposition attorney during cross examination.

    * In both movies, the opposition attorney raises the question how an adult man with the mental age of six can take care of his five year old daughter and how he will supervise the growth of his kid daughter into an adult woman.

    * In both movies, the handicapped man gives up the custody of the child in the interests of her need for a motherly figure and better education.

    * In both movies, the handicapped man gives a list of daily schedule of his daughter to the foster mother 7:00 a.m big glass of milk; 7:30 a.m breakfast, 8:00 a.m. shower, 8:30 a.m. school.

    * In both movies, the school kids make fun of the young girls father.

    Source: Searchindia.com.

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