Movie Review | Chithirai Sevvaanam: A Grim Story That Gets You Thinking – FilmyVoice

Posted on December 3, 2021

Battle choreographer Stunt Silva’s maiden try at route, ‘Chithirai Sevvanam’, narrates a grim story that’s primarily based on the sensational Pollachi intercourse scandal that shook the state in 2019.

Director A L Vijay, who has written the story of the movie, cleverly combines one other burning concern – the choice to impose NEET on college students aspiring to review medication – within the plot within the hope that it’ll assist improve the movie’s impression on audiences.

The movie revolves round Muthupandi (Samudrakani), a easy, small-time uneducated farmer from the Pollachi belt, whose solely aspiration in life is to see his loving daughter Aishwarya (Pooja Kannan) change into a health care provider. Muthupandi, who has single-handedly introduced her up from a very younger age after the premature demise of his spouse in a mishap, needs to make her a health care provider as a result of he needs no different individual to undergo his destiny of shedding an expensive one as a result of lack of medical amenities or personnel.

To her credit score, Aishwarya nurtures the identical dream as that of her father. The younger woman, who reveals immense promise, emerges a topper within the twelfth normal exams, a lot to the delight of her dad who thinks that his dream of seeing her a health care provider will now come true. However it’s at this level that he will get to know that the ordeal isn’t over and that she should clear a further examination referred to as the NEET to review medication.

With little information about NEET, the farmer, who lives in a distant rural a part of the state, seeks the recommendation of an educationist, who means that he put his daughter in a training centre on the town, to provide her an edge within the aggressive examination.

Taking his recommendation, the farmer places his daughter in a residential teaching centre within the metropolis and returns house to his fields. A couple of days later, cops come knocking on his door, saying that his daughter has gone lacking and {that a} video clip of hers has started doing the rounds. What he does subsequent is what the movie is all about…

The movie does make an impression and the first cause for it’s as a result of the story focuses on the ache of a father who has misplaced his daughter.

Sure scenes within the movie go away you emotionally distressed like a scene within the movie, the place the daddy of the woman, whereas attempting to trace the one who circulated her video clip, occurs to see a bunch of younger boys discussing the clip. The emotional trauma that he experiences whereas pleading with them to delete his daughter’s clip churns your abdomen and makes your coronary heart heavy.

The movie highlights the hazards that know-how brings right now and reveals how troublesome it’s to undo injury that’s inflicted on an individual’s character on the digital medium. It raises questions on girls’s security, at a time when superior know-how is well out there to all people.

Samudrakani comes up with one more highly effective efficiency in Chithirai Sevvaanam, showcasing two aspects. The primary side is an epitome of kindness. He comes throughout as a doting dad, who’s affected person, understanding, affectionate and hardworking. The following side is terrifying. A person furious with rage, he’s decided to seek out anyone and all people who has harmed his daughter.

Pooja Kannan as Samudrakani’s daughter sparkles like a newly minted coin. She effortlessly slips into the position and breathes life into her character. The daddy-daughter chemistry between Samudrakani and Pooja Kannan within the movie works to an extent and that may be a massive plus for the movie.

Sam C S’s background rating is spectacular however sadly, a serious portion of the BGM bears a putting resemblance to G V Prakash’s background rating for the critically-acclaimed Dhanush-starrer Asuran.

Ok G Venkatesh’s visuals are a deal with to observe.

Chithirai Sevvaanam just isn’t an entertainer. It’s a grim story that’s sure to depart you with a lump in your throat and a thought in your head.