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name | Sethu |
director | Bala |
writer | Bala |
starring | VikramAbithaSivakumarSrimanMohan VaidyaBharathi |
producer | A. Kandasamy |
cinematography | R. Rathnavelu |
editing | Raghu Baabu |
music | Ilaiyaraaja |
distributor | Sharmasha Productions |
released | 10 December 1999 |
country | India |
language | Tamil |
budget | }} |
''Sethu'' is a 1999 Tamil romantic tragedy film directed by debutant Bala. The film stars Vikram and Abitha in the lead roles with Sivakumar and Sriman in other pivotal roles. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
The film opened in December 1999 at a single noon show at a suburban theatre but built up through word-of-mouth publicity and ran over one hundred at several cinema halls across Chennai, becoming a critical and commercial success. ''Sethu'' won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil and secured wins in the Best Film category at the Filmfare Awards and the Cinema Express Awards, while Bala and Vikram won several awards for their contributions to the film.
Sethu has a staple diet of yes-sir friends surrounding him. He comes across a timid girl, Abitha, who is the daughter of a poor temple priest, and starts to woo her. A wonderfully constructed sequence of events leads him to rescue her elder sister after she accidentally enters a brothel. When the girl falls in love with him, Sethu becomes a victim of brothel-goons and ends up in a mental institution with brain damage. With Sethu with no memory of his past and his unusual behaviour he starts to recollect memories. At one point, he is completely back to his normal self and in an attempt to escape, he climbs over the gates. Unfortuntely, he fails and ends up with serious injuries.
Whilst sleeping with his injury, Abitha makes a surprise visit. However Sethu is asleep and she leaves with this woeful memory of him. As she is about to leave the institution, he wakes up and realises that she had come to see him. As he calls out, she leaves unable to hear him.
Persistent to meet her he makes another attempt to leave the institution and this time he is successful. When he arrives at her house he is presented with his love unfortuately dead. He realises that she had killed herself.
Distraught after what he saw, he just walks out and at that point he is met with the mental institution wardens who came chasing after him. The ending shows him leaving with them as he has nothing to live for after his true love's death.
The film struggled to find a distributor and only after sixty seven screenings did the film manage to find a buyer, with most refusing the film due to the tragic climax.
The following year, ''Sethu'' won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil, while also securing wins in the Best Film category at the Filmfare Awards and the Cinema Express Awards. Bala won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Director and the Filmfare Award for Best Director – Tamil for his directorial debut. The performance also drew accolades for Vikram who won the Filmfare Special Award – South and the Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize for his portrayal of the title charcter, while reports emerged that he missed out on the National Film Award for Best Actor by a single vote to Mohanlal. Post-success, Vikram has described the film would have been close to him regardless of the commercial success and that it put him on the "right path", with Vikram choosing to adapt the prefix of Chiyaan to his screen name.
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