Palayathu Amman is a 2000 Indian Tamil-language Hindu devotional film directed by Rama Narayanan. Meena plays the lead role as goddess Amman, while Ramki, Divya Unni, Charan Raj, and Vivek play supporting roles.

The film starts with a saint in a gurukulam announcing to his students that Devi's birth to kill the evil shall come soon. The Satan kills the saint, but Devi's birth is not stopped. It grows up as a child for Shekar and Savithri. The child gets all kinds of harms from the Satan, but the Goddess Palayathu Amman saves it every time. At the same time, Savithri thinks Palayathu Amman wants to take away her child, so she tries to save it from her. At last, the child is kidnapped and about to be killed when Palayathu Amman kills the Satan and returns the child to her parents.

• Meena as Palayathu Amman
• Ramki as Shekar
• Divya Unni as Savithri
• Charan Raj as Asureswaran
• Vivek as Kalyanaraman
• Senthil
• Mayilsamy
• Akshya Jayram as school-going Sathya

The film completed its shoot with the working title of Devatha, before the director chose to title the film Palayathu Amman. Vivek comedy in this film was praised by critics.^[1] The Movie became a blockbuster at the box office ^[2]

Lyrics were written by Vaali, Kalidasan and Rama Narayanan.^[3][4]

Hindi