Wednesday, October 29, 2008

REVIEW OF SEVAL | Seval Stills | Seval Pictures | Poonam Bajwa

Sampath, Murugesan, Brahmin Agraharam, Krishna Sekar,Hari Shankar, vadivelu, Bharath, simran’s, Poonam Bajwa, hari’s, G.V Prakash  Seval
At the same time there is local feudal landlord and village head (Sampath), who has an eye on Parijatham, which leads to a conflict with Murugesan, who has now turned a new leaf to win over his girl!

Meanwhile after delivery Gayathri suffering from cancer dies leaving Parijatham holding the baby. The orthodox Brahmin Agraharam relatives and friends force her to marry her brother-in-law!

On a parallel track, a heart broken Murugesan tries to save her from a lusting relative (Krishna) and the village head. Want to hear more of this dumb story?

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!

Totally devoid of any original snatches of writing, the film plods along for nearly 2 hours and 45 minutes. In the first half there are some comedy scenes between Vadivel and Bharat which raises a few laughs, but after some time it becomes repetitive.

Vadivel is present throughout the film, as the postman who is more interested in playing cupid between the hero and heroine. Simran’s character and her make-up (post interval) has not been well etched. New girl Poonam is just ok as she lacks screen presence in a meaty role.

Bharat does what Hari’s heroes have done in the past with style but has been let down by a poor script as some of the characters action is not justifiable.

On the technical side Priyan’s camera is a plus point and the locales are lush and he used the Jimmy –Jip crane to the maximum, to get top-angle shots.

One of the biggest disappointments is the music of G.V Prakash, who has not been able to churn out a single melody.

Sense, style and story is missing in Seval All in all a very disappointing venture from Hari who has given entertaining films in the past

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