Seval Tamil Movie
Director Hari is known to make films on family themes touching on emotions and sentiments. His latest "Seval" (Cock) is no different. A wasteful village youth's fight to rescue a girl he loves from the villains is what the story is about. Though there are too many characters and incidents, the strong story laden with emotions helped Hari to avoid the criticism of having gone overboard. Bharath could not have done better. While his last film "Nepali" was a big disappointment, in "Seval" he has improved his performance and played the role with understanding.
The film opens with Murugan (Bharath) coming out of prison after serving a life term. The rest of the story is told in the flashback mode till the climax.
Murugan is a son of a flower vendor and his companion is cousin brother Thangavelu (Vadivelu), who is a postman. Murugan has no work to do and he roams the streets and indulges in petty squabbles. He falls in love with a poor temple archakar Panchami Iyer's (Y.G. Mahendran) daughter Parijatham (Poonam Bajwa), a school student. She detests the unsightly Murugan at the beginning. When she starts liking him, her family decides that Parijatham is to become a second wife of the husband (TV fame Prem) of her elder sister Gayatri (Simran) as she is a cancer patient. Understanding the situation Parijatham is in; Bharath sacrifices his love for her. Meanwhile, a crafty middle aged village head (Sampath) as also Gayatri's cantankerous brother-in-law (Krishna), attracted by the beauty of Parijatham, try to covet her. When Murugan comes to know of this, he erupts like a volcano.
Bharath gives a commendable performance as a rustic youth and a jilted lover. Action scenes, especially where he hits back those who tortured him on the false of charge of stealing, deserve mention. He nicely depicts the recklessness of youth and innocence of a rural boy and disobedient son who wastes his time on purposeless avocations.
As for the flashback after Bharath comes out of the Palayamkottai jail as a thin and pale youth wearing thick glasses, beard and disheveled hair, the director has failed to connect the incidents and present a cogent picture.
After giving the impression that there would be a big clash between Bharath and Simran, the tale takes a twist that Simran is a cancer patient. This comes as a damp squib. Is the story really warrants her death and the high decibel mourning?
Poonam Bajwa glitters as a school student. She looks beautiful and homely in 'pavadai' and 'thavani'.
There is no dearth of glamour. And titillating scenes abound.
Vadivelu as a postman and elder brother (cousin) of Bharath evokes more sentiment than laughter by playing the emissary between Bharath and Poonam.
TV fame Prem has not much to do. Y.G. Mahendra fits the role of poor Brahmin temple priest.
G.V. Prakash Kumar's tunes serve to identify him. 'Thulasi Chediya' is a number which is sprightly. The lyric is by Hari. Songwriter Muthukumar leaves his imprint on 'Kannamma' and 'Parvaiymilae Oru..'
Priyan provides excellent visuals of the picturesque locations. Editor V.T. Vijayan could have made the screenplay crisper by chopping the fab.
This "Seval" is too weak for a 'cock fight'.
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