Ilavattam

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Ilavattam
Directed by	A. R. Rajaraja
Starring	Navdeep Manorama Vijayakumar
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Ilavattam / Seetha Koka Chiluka is a Tamil/ Telugu movie directed by A. R. Rajaraja. Navdeep and Sheela play the lead roles. Adolescent dreams and desires form its theme.

[edit] Plot

Cheenu Navdeep and Lakshmi (Sheela) study in the same school and fall in love. Her brother-in-law Prithviraj lusts after her and even tries to rape her in front of Cheenu. Somehow the lovers escape and seek protection from Collector Suhasini. She advices them to finish their studies before thinking about the marriage. Accordingly, Cheenu starts to study under the protection of police.... As soon as the flashback is over, Prithviraj starts chasing Cheenu again with weapons and so it goes on till the tedious end.

[edit] Review

The story is a rehash of what has been done in the past many times. This is my idea of what the director must have thought...To make a movie with lots of sex to sell the movie but then to get the attention of decent audience use the sex to teach a lesson to youngsters. Nice idea but the execution went sourly wrong. The story is banal and so is the screenplay and dialogues. The songs are also not so lingering and on the whole an average fare.

A college that had never had any gold medallist finally gets one in the form of Navdeep. Everyone wonders why Navdeep always received police security to college and he goes on to explain his flashback...

Navdeep and Sheela are in the same school and they are at loggerheads with each other. One rainy night Navdeep is exposed to the concept of sex and then he gets physically attracted to Sheela. Which of course turns into love in due time!

Sheela's is the daughter of a rich landlord (Vijaykumar). She has a sister who is married to Babloo (this is what he used to be called when he used to act in Tamil serials). Babloo is a rogue in the disguise of a nice guy. He is secretly planning to marry Sheela so that all the property owned by Vijaykumar comes under his control. When Vijaykumar discovers his plot Babloo kills Vijaykumar and dons the role of the head of the household.

On discovering Sheela and Navdeep on the bed in their house he gets mad and tries to kill Navdeep. The district collector Suhasini with whom Navdeep is already acquainted helps get Babloo arrested and thrown into Jail. She also gets a promise from both Navdeep and Sheela that they will both study and pursue a career before giving in to physical attraction which may also be infactuation at such a young age.

Honestly I don't see why Navdeep receives police protection every single day of his college life when the bad guy Babloo is behind bars! The whole story is under a wrong premise. I am not sure I even remotely enjoyed the movie. It is very sensual in parts and certainly not for family viewing...trust me when I say this as I saw it with my mother and it was thoroughly uncomfortable! Even if the story is not new a lot of movies have something different that makes the movie interesting (for example the movie Run) but this is plain boring! So avoid it if you have anything better to do. But I must give credit to both Navdeep and Sheela for very decent acting. I honestly believe it was not their fault for choosing to act in a below average movie!