Selva (film) explained

Selva
Director:A. Venkatesh
Screenplay:A. Venkatesh
Story:Majeeth
Producer:Pavithran
Starring:Vijay
Swathi
Raghuvaran
Riva
Cinematography:S. Saravanan
Editing:B. Lenin
V. T. Vijayan
Music:Sirpy
Studio:A. R. S. International
Runtime:120 minutes
Country:India
Language:Tamil
Budget:40 lakh
Gross:1.75 crore[1]

Selva is a 1996 Indian Tamil-language romantic action film directed by A. Venkatesh.[2] The film stars Vijay, Swathi, Riva and Raghuvaran. The music is composed by Sirpy. The film was a successful venture.[3] [4]

Plot

Selva lives in a colony. He is the son of lawyer Varatharajan but he lives separately. It turns out that he is the adopted son of Varatharajan and he gets shocked whenever Selva speaks or fights against injustice. He is a man who hates injustice and fights against it. Meanwhile, a minister's daughter moves into the colony. She moves friendly with Selva. Sumathi who is in love with Selva mistakes their friendship. Vartharajan works for a terrorist group that kidnaps the minister's daughter. Selva goes to the rescue of the girl. However, Selva kills his father because Varatharajan was going to kill Kamini. Finally, they will come out of the clutch of the terrorists.

Production

Vijay performed a risky jump stunt in the film without using a double.[5]

Soundtrack

All songs were written by Vaali and music was composed by Sirpy.[6]

Title Singer(s) Length
"Chicken Kari" 5:02
"Don't Care Master" Mano3:46
"Lappu Tappu" Suresh Peters, Swarnalatha, Deepika4:41
"Potta Pulla Manasu" Mano, Sujatha4:46
"Tharaiyil Natakkuthu" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Swarnalatha4:43

Reception

Ananda Vikatan rated the film 30 out of 100.[7] R. P. R. of Kalki praised Vijay for acting with life and performing stunts and called Raghuvaran's performance as the only entertaining thing from the film but felt the film had no plot and two of the actresses were underutilised.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: சுவாதி நடிப்பில் வெளியான 'செல்வா'... இப்படத்தின் மொத்த வசூல் எவ்ளோ தெரியுமா? . Filmy Focus . 2022-09-29 . http://web.archive.org/web/20240810121944/https://tamil.filmyfocus.com/vijays-selva-movie-box-office-collection . 2024-08-10 . live . ta . 2024-08-10.
  2. Web site: Selva (1996) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131006091711/http://www.cinesouth.com/cgi-bin/filmography/newfilmdb.cgi?name=selva . 6 October 2013 . 5 October 2013 . Cinesouth.
  3. Director A. Venkatesh Given So Many Hits For Tamil Cinema including Selva and Nilavae Vaa . 24 September 2017 . ta . AnnaParavai . 27 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220930040753/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeFmbLaDcJg . 30 September 2022 . live . YouTube.
  4. Web site: 12 May 2015 . Directors who have worked with Ilayathalapathy Vijay on 2 or more films . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210506205834/https://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-cinema-news-15/directors-who-have-worked-with-ilayathalapathy-vijay-on-more-than-one-occasion.html . 6 May 2021 . 6 May 2021 . Behindwoods.
  5. After Selva successful film I got two other films to direct Vijay and Vijay did stunts without dupe Director A Venkatesh Interview – DotsMedia . 9 July 2022 . ta . Dots Media . 29 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220929135232/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlH3nj6B1eY . 29 September 2022 . live . YouTube.
  6. Web site: Selva (1996) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220913072851/https://www.raaga.com/tamil/movie/selva-songs-T0004804 . 13 September 2022 . 15 September 2022 . Raaga.com.
  7. Web site: சார்லஸ் . தேவன் . 22 June 2021 . பீஸ்ட் : 'நாளைய தீர்ப்பு' டு 'மாஸ்டர்'... விஜய்க்கு விகடனின் மார்க்கும், விமர்சனமும் என்ன? #Beast . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211008100344/https://cinema.vikatan.com/amp/story/tamil-cinema/how-vijay-movies-scored-in-vikatan-reviews . 8 October 2021 . 7 December 2021 . . ta.
  8. ஆர். பி. ஆர் . 19 January 1997 . செல்வா . live . https://archive.today/20230518140936/https://archive.org/details/kalki1997-01-19/page/n1/mode/2up . 18 May 2023 . 18 May 2023 . . 1 . Ta . Internet Archive.