Rettai Vaalu

Rettai Vaalu is a 2014 Indian Tamil film written and directed by Desika. The film features Akhil and Saranya Nag in the lead roles, and was released in September 2014.

Plot

The film revolves around the love between the thief Sekar and village girl Anjali. Anjali falls in love with Sekar who is a thief hiding in their village and working in farm fields.One day Anjali and her parents get to know that he is a thief. Still loving Anjali elopes with him without listening her parents advice.Sekar's parents also didn't allow him to enter the house. Sekar gets help from his thief friends.Meanwhile, his parents makes arrangements for his marriage with Anjali. Night before marriage his friends makes him to drink a lot and sold Anjali for money.Police catches Sekar. He escapes and finds the place where Anjali was sold and kills the women who does the flesh business there. Meanwhile, Anjali was sent in car.People who drives the car gets to know about the death of that women through phone and tries to kill Anjali and throws her out of car. Hospitalized Anjali was killed by her father who fears of media attention as the media is waiting for her to get to know more details about the flesh business as she too one among the person who was kept there by the killed women.Sekar reaches the hospital to get to know about the death of Anjali

Cast

• Akhil as Sekar
• Saranya Nag as Anjali
• Kovai Sarala
• Thambi Ramaiah as Ramasamy Padayatchi
• Pasanga Sivakumar
• Sairamani
• Benven Prabhakaran

Production

Desika made his directorial debut with the film, after having apprenticed under Thambi Ramaiah, Sairamani and Sakthi Chidambaram for fifteen years. He approached real estate businessman Jaya Ilavarasan with the script and succeeded in convincing him to make his first film. The team began filming scenes across Chennai in September 2012 under the title of Vaalu.^[1] During production, the film faced a legal tussle over the title with the makers of the Silambarasan starrer Vaalu.^[2] The Producers Council concluded that Desika's team had not registered the title and subsequently the film used Rettai Vaalu instead.^[3]

The music for the film was composed by V. Selvaganesh and the lyrics were written by Vairamuthu. In June 2013, the team held an audio launch function where the first CD was released by Vairamuthu and received by producers R. B. Choudary and Keyar.^[4]

Release

The film had a limited release across Tamil Nadu on 19 September, owing to the presence of bigger budget films at the box office.^[5]

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