Seval

Seval

Directed by	Hari
Produced by	M. A. Jinnah
Written by	Hari
Starring	Bharath Poonam Bajwa Vadivelu Simran Bagga Sampath Raj Shanmugarajan Y. G. Mahendran Manobala Prem
Music by	G. V. Prakash Kumar
Cinematography	Priyan
Edited by	V. T. Vijayan
Production company	Jinnah Creations
Distributed by	Ayngaran International
Release dates	27 October 2008^[1]
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Seval (English: Rooster) is a Tamil language action drama film released in 2008. It stars Bharath, Vadivelu, Simran Bagga and Poonam Bajwa in the lead roles.

Plot

The beginning is promising, at any rate, as you watch a Don't-Care Murugesan (Bharath) limp sorrowfully from the Central Jail, Palayamkottai, in a scruffy beard and glasses.

He has been incarcerated for 17 years. Naturally, there's a story which rewinds from 1989. In those halcyon days, he's an unruly youngster in pretty village Sivasailam, (Hari's forte, Thirunelveli District), the son of a hard-working flower-sellers (Rajesh and Yuvasri), with Thapaal Thangavelu (Vadivelu), who provides as much laughter as the posts he delivers.

Life is a long, sunny adventure for Murugesan who beats people up, sells his grandfather's land, runs over rooftops (like the rooster of the title) and incurs so much of his father's wrath that he's prophesied to meet a horrible end. Not that this gloomy prospect affects Murugesan—he continues on his own sweet way until he runs smack into Parijatham (debutante Poonam Bajwa), a demure, fair-complexioned, striking Iyer girl, the daughter of Panjami Iyer (Y. G. Mahendran) and the younger sister of Gayatri (Simran).

Thus we have the first half which is a series of rollicking fun interspersed with logical sequences; the two have sudden and quirky escapades.

In the meantime, the village's bigwig (Sampath Raj), who is magnanimous in public and a tyrant at home, casts his eyes on Parijatham. What sets his characterization apart is that he is not your average villain who shrieks and carries away the heroine; he places his pawns carefully, and is afraid of being found out and Parijatham is trapped and he starts removing her dresses. He and Murugesan come close to breaking each other's bones many times—but the situations defuse themselves in a perfectly natural fashion.

Several twists in the tale occur in a quick fashion, and Murugesan and Parijatham are bound in a net from which, seemingly, there is no escape.

Cast

Actors	Role
Bharath	Murugesan
Poonam Bajwa	Parijatham
Vadivelu	Thapaal Thangavelu
Simran Bagga	Gayatri
Shanmugarajan
Sampath Raj
Madhan Bob

Soundtrack

The songs were composed by G. V. Prakash.^[2]

Seval

Soundtrack album by G. V. Prakash Kumar

Genre

Feature film soundtrack

Label

Ayngaran Music
An Ak Audio

G. V. Prakash Kumar chronology

Naan Aval Adhu
(2008)

Seval
(2008)

Ullasa Utsaha
(2009)

Songs	Singers
Kannamma Kannamma	Vijay Yesudas, Gayathri
Namma Ooru Nallaarukku	Tippu, Manickka Vinayagam, Anuradha Sriram
Odamarathu Mullapola	Benny Dayal
Paarvaile Oru Yekkam	Naresh Iyer
Thaayaramma Thaayaaru	Karthik
Thulasi Chediyum Aralipoovum	Hariharan, Deepa Miriam

Release

The satellite rights of the film were sold to Kalaignar.^[3]

Critical reception

Sify wrote "The film just drives you crazy, and story telling itself is confusing with a lot of plot holes. At times it is hard to tell what the film is about, though it is very predictable at every turn as Hari has taken certain scenes and situations from his earlier films!".^[4] Behindwoods wrote "Looking at Seval, one does not know whether Hari has tried to be different or is it the execution that went wrong. Clearly, this was made by a really ‘out of form’ Hari who generally delivers great results."^[5] Nowrunning wrote "Hari panders to the taste of his rural audience all the way, but the movie is bound to disappoint city-dwellers since neither the story nor its treatment appeal to anyone with an IQ quotient higher than the least educated village wastrel."^[6]

References

External links

Films directed by Hari

Singam series	Singam (2010) Singam II (2013) S3 (2016)

Other films	Thamizh (2002) Saamy (2003) Kovil (2003) Arul (2004) Ayya (2005) Aaru (2005) Thaamirabharani (2007) Vel (2007) Seval (2008) Venghai (2011) Poojai (2014)

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