Adavadi

Adavadi is a 2007 Tamil language psychological thriller film directed by V. S. Bharath Hanna. The film stars Sathyaraj and Radha alongside an ensemble cast including Y. Gee. Mahendra, Sathyapriya, K. R. Vatsala, Vaiyapuri, Suja Varunee, Ganja Karuppu, and Malaysia Vasudevan. It was released on 30 March 2007. The film is a remake of the 1998 Kannada film A.

Adavadi
Poster
Directed by	V. S. Bharath Hanna
Written by	V. S. Bharath Hanna (dialogues)
Screenplay by	V. S. Bharath Hanna
Story by	Upendra
Based on	A by Upendra
Produced by	G. Saravana R. Sekar
Starring	Sathyaraj Radha Y. Gee. Mahendra Sathyapriya K. R. Vatsala Vaiyapuri Suja Varunee Ganja Karuppu Malaysia Vasudevan
Cinematography	R. Judo Ashwin
Edited by	K. Thangavel
Music by	Deva
Production company	Sri Saravana Film Arts
Release date	30 March 2007 (2007-03-30)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Plot

Bharath (Sathyaraj) is a perfectionist film director. Being a short-tempered person, he deals with people with arrogance and disrespectfulness. Chandini (Radha), a debut-making actress, falls in love with Bharath. When Chandini openly declares her love for Bharath in front of everyone, he gets angry and slaps her. Since that incident, Chandini gets away from him and latches on to a financier. Bharath cannot forget her and takes to drinking. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.

Cast

• Sathyaraj as Bharath
• Radha as Chandini
• Y. Gee. Mahendra as Bharath's father
• Sathyapriya as Bharath's mother
• K. R. Vatsala as Chandini's mother
• Vaiyapuri as Michael
• Suja Varunee
• Ganja Karuppu
• Malaysia Vasudevan
• Fathima Babu
• T. P. Gajendran
• Alex
• Parvesh
• Afzal
• Muthukaalai
• Telephone Subramanian
• Sharmili
• Kovai Senthil

Production

After the commercially successful film Adi Thadi (2004), director Shivaraj (who has changed his name to Bharath Hanna) and Sathyaraj team up for the second time. Radha of Sundhara Travels fame was selected to play lead actress, while Deva was signed on as music composer.^[1][2] The film was originally titled as Reel No. 16 and was launched on 29 April 2006.^[3] The filming was held at Vishakapatnam in 37 days.^[4]

Soundtrack

Adavadi
Soundtrack album by Deva
Released	12 January 2007
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	19:45
Language	Tamil
Label	Mass Audios
Deva chronology
Manikanda (2007) Adavadi (2007) Viyabari (2007)
External audio Adavadi – Jukebox on YouTube

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by Deva. The soundtrack, released on 12 January 2007, features 4 tracks with lyrics written by Snehan, Piraisoodan and Senthilkumar.^[5][6][7][8]

Deva retained two songs from original version which are composed by Gurukiran. "Idhu One Day" retained as "Idhu One Day" and "Sum Sumne" retained as "En Anbea".

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"En Anbea"	Snehan	Karthik, Mrunalini	5:15
2.	"Idhu One Day"	Piraisoodan	Malaysia Maran, Babuji, Jayalakshmi	4:38
3.	"Dindugal Poottu"	Piraisoodan	Deva, Sri Devisha Bharath	5:25
4.	"Thisai Eattum"	Su. Senthilkumar	Sriram Parthasarathy	4:27
Total length:				19:45

Reception

The film received mostly negative reviews. Settu Shankar of OneIndia described the film as a needless confusion.^[9] While KLT of hindu.com criticized the outmoded plot and treatment.^[10] Chennai Online wrote "The film is a remake of the Kannada hit 'A'. It had helped establish popular star Upendra as a director-hero with his own unique, zany and a bizarre style of scripting, characterisation and narrative style. Which doesn't work to advantage in the Tamil version. Rehashed, it loses out in its essence and comes across as a series of disjointed scenes put together in a jerky, haphazard way. matters".^[11]