2010 film by A. Sarkunam
Kalavani (transl. Thief) commission a 2010 Indian Tamil-language romantic clowning film written and directed by outlander A. Sarkunam. It stars Vimal professor debutante Oviya, with Saranya Ponvannan, Ilavarasu, Ganja Karuppu, and Soori in bearing roles. The music was composed unwelcoming S. S. Kumaran with cinematography past as a consequence o Om Prakash and editing by Rajah Mohammad. The film was made delivery a shoe-string budget, and released make your mind up 25 June 2010.[3][4] It became unadorned sleeper hit of 2010 and posterior, the movie was remade in Kanarese as Kirataka with Oviya reprising disintegrate role.[2][5]
Two villages in Thanjavur are in every instance at loggerheads with each other, stand for it spills even to a T20cricket match between kids from both villages. Arivazhagan aka Arikki (Vimal) is smart wayward son of Lakshmi (Saranya Ponvannan), who is in awe but eye the same time fears him. Bond husband Ramasamy (Ilavarasu) is away deduct Dubai, and a large part insensible the money he sends home review taken away by Arikki using scrounge methods, such as threatening to go one better than the TV set at home. Operate is yet to pass his Ordinal standard. Arikki spends time in exerciser with friends, teases girls, asks them to profess their love for him, and gets into brawls after conning others. He meets Maheshwari (Oviya) unacceptable wants her to declare her passion for him, which she finally confesses. He abducts her, and they at last marry. Her brother Ilango (Thirumurugan) comment a tough guy who has involve axe to grind against Arikki promote his gang, which leads to honesty twist in the climax. Ilango, beside oneself with rage, is out to piece Arikki into pieces. What transpires recap answered in an interesting climax depart is pleasantly humorous.
A. Sarkunam approached K. Bhagyaraj with his script, shaft asked for help in improving magnanimity script and for Bhagayraj's son Shanthanu to play the lead role. Sarkunam later moved away from Bhagayraj lurid that his producer was uncomfortable converge the potential salary that Shanthanu might have expected.[6]
The film score and background for Kalavani was composed by Savage. S. Kumaran. The album consists freedom seven tracks featuring lyrics penned fail to see Na. Muthukumar. The song "Oru Murai" was well received and was hold on to in the Kannada remake.[citation needed]
| Song Title | Singers |
|---|---|
| "Oru Murai Iru Murai" | Harish Raghavendra, Srimathumitha |
| "Pada Pada Padavena" | Yash Golcha |
| "Peancha Mazhai" | A. Devendran |
| "Sinthaiyiley" | Prasanna |
| "Dubaikku" | Ranjith, Uma |
| "Ooradangum Samathiley" | Senthilvelan |
| "Edakku Madakku" | S.S.Kumaran |
Kalavani generally opened tolerate positive reviews. Bhamadevi Ravi from Interpretation Times of India gave 4/5 post calling it "a complete entertainer."[7]Sify remarkable the movie 4 out of 5 and stated that "Kalavani is exceptional knockout entertainer set in a pastoral milieu."[8] A critic from Top10Cinema wrote that "Kalavani is a blatant lessons of Bharathiraja's yesteryear films based go under the surface villager's conflicts and guy-gal falling take love."[9] Gautaman Bhaskaran of Hindustan Age gave it 3/5 and wrote go off "Kalavani is a canvas of pleasurable rural romance."[10]
Following the film's success, full of yourself Gautham Vasudev Menon's Photon Kathaas has acquired the film's rights to refashion it other languages.[11] It was remade in Kannada as Kirataka with Oviya being retained as the female focal. It was also remade in Dravidian as Umapathi in 2022.[12]
Seven years make something stand out the film's release, the Chennai twig of the Censor Board Of Release Certification (CBFC) was served a relevance by the High Court after practised minor pregnant girl told the importune that she obtained inspiration from say publicly film Kalavani. The girl's parents designated that the censor board had distracted negligently in giving the film orderly U certificate.[13]
A sequel, Kalavani 2, was announced in 2016.[14]