Sevagan

Sevagan is a 1992 Tamil language crime film directed and produced by Arjun Sarja, making his directorial debut. The film features Arjun Sarja and Kushboo in lead roles. The film had musical score by Maragadha Mani released on 19 April 1992 and fared well at box office.^[1][2]

Plot

Sanjay (Arjun Sarja), a fearless and upright police office, is transferred to a new city. He lives with his widowed mother (Kavitha) and sister. He also has a half-brother Ashok (Nassar) and a stepmother. Ashok works for the corrupted minister Sabapathy (Captain Raju) who is involded in liquor smuggling, procuring and illegal gambling. One day, a corrupt police officer Sridhar tries to rape an innocent girl Anjali (Kushboo). Sanjay arrives on time : he saves Anjali and he beats him. Sanjay later gets married with Anjali. Sanjay strongly supports the politician Sathyamoorthy (Charuhasan). Sabapathy decides to target Sanjay's weakpoint, his wife Anjali. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.

Cast

• Arjun Sarja as D.S.P Sanjay
• Kushboo as Anjali
• Captain Raju as Sabapathy
• Nassar as Ashok
• Rocky as Dhoni/Singh
• Venniradai Moorthy as Ekambaram
• Senthil as Kanakambaram
• Charuhasan as Sathyamoorthy
• Ra. Sankaran as Shanmugam, Anjali's mother
• MRK as Arumugam
• Oru Viral Krishna Rao
• Thayir Vadai Desikan
• Sivaraman
• Bayilvan Ranganathan
• Sakthivel as Sridhar
• Vinoth as Vinoth
• Kavitha as Sanjay's mother
• C. R. Saraswathi as Ashok's mother
• Devipriya
• Sharmili
• Ravichandran in a guest appearance
• Major Sundarrajan in a guest appearance

Soundtrack

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composer Maragadha Mani. The soundtrack, released in 1992, features 5 tracks with lyrics written by Vairamuthu.

Reception

RSP of The New Indian Express gave the film a mixed review citing "the narration lacks depth [...] Kushboo has been wasted. Captain Raju fails to impress only the first song bears Maragadha Mani's stamp." and praised the stunt sequences.^[3]

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