Aval Peyar Thamizharasi (transl. Her name is Thamizharasi) is a 2010 Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by Meera Kathiravan and produced by Moser Baer. The film stars Jai, Nandhagi, Dhiyana, S. Theodore Baskaran and Ganja Karuppu in lead roles. The music was composed by Vijay Antony with cinematography by P. G. Muthiah and editing by Raja Mohammad. The film was released on 5 March 2010 and failed commercially.^[1]

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Aval Peyar Thamizharasi
Directed by	Meera Kathiravan
Written by	Meera Kathiravan
Produced by	Moser Baer
Starring	Jai Nandhagi Dhiyana S. Theodore Baskaran Ganja Karuppu Veera Santhanam
Cinematography	P. G. Muthiah
Edited by	Raja Mohammad
Music by	Vijay Antony
Production company	Blue Ocean Entertainment
Distributed by	Moser Baer
Release date	5 March 2010 (2010-03-05)
Country	India
Language	Tamil

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Siva Rao (Veera Santhanam) is a Thol Pavai puppeteer. He and his family go around villages, performing the art for his survival. He is struggling to make both ends meet.

When they land up in Tirunelveli, a rich man Chelladurai (S. Theodore Baskaran) decides to support the family, for his young grandson Jyothi (Jai) loves the art and their family. Thamizharasi (Nandhagi), Siva Rao's granddaughter, is enrolled in a local school, who grows up and works hard to pass out in flying colors in her higher secondary.

Even as she gets admission in an engineering college in Pune, Jothi and Thamizharasi develop an affinity for each other. Unable to leave her, Jothi rapes her, which changes her life. As a result, Jothi is forced to leave the village by his grandfather, to live with his father. Jothi returns after a couple of years to see Thamizharasi nowhere. The rest is all about how Jothi travels from pillar to post to reach out for Thamizharasi and repents for his acts that altered her life altogether.

• Jai as Jyothi
• Nandhagi as Thamizharasi
• S. Theodore Baskaran as Chelladurai
• Veera Santhanam as Siva Rao
• Ganja Karuppu as Othappuli
• Dhiyana as Dancer
• Rama as Thamizharasi's mother
• S. S. Kumaran as Kuthoospandiraj

The soundtrack was composed by Vijay Antony, which features 9 short tracks.^[2][3]

Hindustan Times wrote "Kathiravan’s effort must be lauded because he is still one of the few helmers in cinema bold enough to take his camera to the countryside and capture the dying wails of India’s glorious heritage".^[4] Behindwoods wrote "The poetically shot APT unfolds leisurely, at the pace of a slow moving train and you often tend to feel like an unaccompanied passenger in a mid-afternoon train".^[5] Sify wrote "Well-intentioned in his attempts to make good cinema, Meera Kathiravan and producers Moserbaer and Blue Ocean deserve a pat on their backs for crafting a movie that will stay in your hearts . It is a welcome change from the usual mass masalas and need to be seen in that perceptive".^[6]