Selva (film)

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]

Selva
Poster
Directed by	A. Venkatesh
Screenplay by	A. Venkatesh
Story by	Majeeth
Produced by	Pavithran
Starring	Vijay Swathi Raghuvaran Riva
Cinematography	S. Saravanan
Edited by	B. Lenin V. T. Vijayan
Music by	Sirpy
Production company	A. R. S. International
Release date	12 December 1996 (1996-12-12)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	₹40 lakh
Box office	₹1.75 crore[1]

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 becomes 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.

Cast

• Vijay as Selva
• Swathi as Sumathi
• Riva as Kamini
• Raghuvaran as Varatharajan, Selva's father
• Rajan P. Dev as Vaappa
• Senthil as Magic Guruji
• Manivannan as Cellular Mani Selva s friend (voice dubbed by Mayilsamy for some scenes)
• Jayachitra as CBI officer
• Vichithra as Jyothi
• Shanmugasundari as Deaf grandmother
• C. R. Saraswathi as Bhama, Sumathi's mother
• Vatsala Rajagopal as Church mother
• Mannangatti Subramaniam as Gopalu, Sumathi's father
• Tiruppur Ramasamy as Ramasamy
• Kalidoss as Varatharajan’s assistant
• Jayaprakasam as Soosai
• Diamond Babu as Kamini’s father
• Krishnamoorthy as Deputy inspector general of police
• Bonda Mani as Colony man
• Prathapachandran as Director general of police
• Peter Hein as Fighter
• A. Venkatesh as Vaappa's henchman

Production

Vijay performed a risky jump stunt in the film without using a double.^[4]

Soundtrack

All songs were written by Vaali and music was composed by Sirpy.^[5]The audio rights were acquired by Sony Music.

Title	Singer(s)	Length
"Chicken Kari"	Vijay, Sirpy, Swarnalatha	5:02
"Don't Care Master"	Mano	3:46
"Lappu Tappu"	Suresh Peters, Swarnalatha, Deepika	4:41
"Potta Pulla Manasu"	Mano, Sujatha	4:46
"Tharaiyil Natakkuthu"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Swarnalatha	4:43

Reception

Ananda Vikatan rated the film 30 out of 100.^[6] 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.^[7]