Nilaave Vaa

Nilaave Vaa
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Directed by	A. Venkatesh
Produced by	Shoba Chandrasekhar K. T. Kunjumon
Starring	Vijay Suvalakshmi Sanghavi
Music by	Vidyasagar
Cinematography	R. Selva
Edited by	B. S. Vasu-Saleem
Production company	V. J. Film
Distributed by	Gentleman Film International
Release dates	14 August 1998
Running time	165 min.
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	4.2 crore

Nilaave Vaa is a 1998 Tamil film which released directed by A. Venkatesh and produced by K. T. Kunjumon. The film stars Vijay and Suvalakshmi in the main lead roles, while Sanghavi, Raghuvaran and Manivannan play other supporting roles. The film opened in August 1998 and met with an unfavourable response critically and commercially.^[1]

Plot

Siluvai (Vijay) is the son of Cruz (Vinu Chakravarthy). They are Christians living in a fishing village. In another town, Perumaal (Jaiganesh) is the father to Sangeetha (Suvalakshmi) and Gauri. Sangheeta comes to the small fishing village. Raghuvaran is proposed (and later engaged) to marry her. However, Gauri, falls in love with Siluvai's friend and after hearing that their father Jaiganesh doesn't want to accept the Hindu-Christian marriage, she decides to elope with her lover. This leads to the breakup of Sangeetha and Siluvai's love affair. However Raghuvaran, upon hearing Siluvai's story, gives a great speech to the villagers and unites Siluvai and Sangeetha.

Cast

• Vijay as Siluvai
• Suvalakshmi as Sangheeta
• Sanghavi as Filomina
• Jaiganesh as Perumaal
• Vinu Chakravarthy as Cruz
• Raghuvaran as Siva
• Manivannan as Dubai
• Charle as Kilipas
• Sanjeev as Baasha
• Balaji as Kicha
• Sriman as Laasar
• A. Venkatesh makes a cameo appearance

Production

This low-budget production was jointly produced on Vijay's home banner and K. T. Kunjumon who was still reeling under the failure of Ratchagan.^[2] Initially Rakshana was signed on as heroine but was subsequently replaced by Suvalakshmi.^[3] Mansoor Ali Khan had signed to be the villain in Nilaave Vaa, but the actor later returned the advance of 50,000 and took back his 40 days of call sheets, with Anantharaj consequently replacing him.^[4]

Release

A critic from Indolink.com concluded that the film was "not impressive", while mentioning that "Vijay is his usual self" and that Raghuvaran "has given a good performance as usual".^[5] Vijay mentioned that he had expected the film to do good business but was disappointed by its box office failure.

Soundtrack

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composer Vidyasagar.^[6][7] The lyrics were written by Vairamuthu.^[8]

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