Adavadi

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Adavadi
Adavadi poster.jpg
Poster
Directed byV. S. Bharath Hanna
Written byV. S. Bharath Hanna (dialogues)
Screenplay byV. S. Bharath Hanna
Story by Upendra
Based on A by Upendra
Produced byG. Saravana
R. Sekar
Starring
CinematographyR. Judo Ashwin
Edited byK. Thangavel
Music by Deva
Production
company
Sri Saravana Film Arts
Release date
  • 30 March 2007 (2007-03-30)
Running time
140 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

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 .

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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, 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

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]

Soundtrack

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. [3] [4] [5] [6]

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".

TrackSongSinger(s)LyricsDuration
1"En Anbea" Karthik, Mrunalini Snehan 5:15
2"Idhu One Day"Malaysia Maran, Babuji, Jayalakshmi Piraisoodan 4:38
3"Dindugal Poottu" Deva, Sri Devisha Bharath5:25
4"Thisai Eattum" Sriram Parthasarathy Su. Senthilkumar4:27

Reception

The film received mostly negative reviews. Settu Shankar of OneIndia described the film as a needless confusion. While KLT of hindu.com criticized the outmoded plot and treatment. [7] [8] [9]

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