Seval

My review : Seval

Hari is one director who is caught up with in the Time-machine of 80's cinema.And almost all his movies follow a routine action-sentiment formula bounded with a racy script . He believes in his hero's "aruval" & heroine's "Kanner" which make up a deadly combo ,spiced up with oodles of Male chauvinisms & age old rediculous superstitions . Ironically with this he has done wonders in his constituency which is ladies & rural audiences of south. Cola sipping , Pizza munching , IT kiddos please excuse.!

Plot: Age old story of a ruffian falling in love with a girl of angelical qualities & problems that they face before finally uniting in the end......!

Barath: He has done justice to his role well.He is every inch a village wastrel who is out of the bounds of his father strictness. Also he has shown the contrast in his character that undergoes a change after his tryst with love. But it is comical to see him as a 40 year old though !

Poonam Bajwa: Hats-off to her courage for shaving her head .I don't think there is any actress in the whole of India who would have done it except it was a Shabana Azmi or a Nandhitha Das (who did it for "Water" before it got shelved.)But the sad part that it appears to be forced into the movie rather than what the script exactly wanted. She has a good future ahead as she is good in the emoting aspect as well.

Simran: She neither has a big part to play nor her part is much powerful as it was proclaimed to be.Rather her role is very regressive one in the days of female rights & forward looking modern women.

Vadivelu: Tickles the funny bones well. Esp. the scene in which he reads a letter with "Padithathum kilithuvidavum" written in it is very hilarious.

Sampath : Not a well etched out role .All through his only part is to ogle at the heroine.

Supporting cast includes Rajesh , Y.G.Mahendran ,Yuvasri,Prem , Krishna--all have done their parts well.

Music by G.V.Prakash is a downer.He seems to go downhill after his "Veyil" days.

Priyan , a Hari constant , has captured the flower fields & natural beauty of Nellai well.

What V.T.Vijayan failed to do , the theater operators have succeeded in doing.They have trimmed the movie by half an hour it seems which makes the movie to not lag that much.

Coming to Hari , he has forced sentiments into the movie unlike his previous ones. Take for instance the "heights of sentiment" that this movie try to achieve - that of the heroine's head getting shaven. She accepts to get her head shaven only to prove that Barath has no place in her life & will serve the family of her in-laws untill her death knowing pretty well that they are a treacherous gang.But a frame later she does exactly what she was accused of in the first place..!!!

Bottomline: average

3/5