Kavalan Avan Kovalan

Kavalan Avan Kovalan
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Directed by	Visu
Screenplay by	Visu
Produced by	K Rajagopal
Starring	Prabhu Rekha
Cinematography	N Balakrishnan
Edited by	Ganesh–Kumar
Music by	Vijay Anand
Production company	KRG Movies International
Release date	29 May 1987 (1987-05-29)
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Kavalan Avan Kovalan (transl. Kovalan is a guard) is a 1987 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by Visu, starring Prabhu, Rekha and Madhuri. It was released on 29 May 1987.^[1]

Plot

Chakravarthi is a film director. Unknown to himself, he has a lookalike. The lookalike, villager Pachaiyappan, is good for nothing and is in love with his cross-cousin. Chakravarthi is married to a devout, pious, orthodox wife who never lets him near her on account of her religious resolutions. This results in him having an affair and ending up getting blackmailed. Chakravarthi's father-in-law, understands the situation of both lookalikes and uses both to solve the problem of the other.

Cast

• Prabhu as Chakravarthi and Pachaiyappan
• Rekha as Uma
• Madhuri as Anjali
• Prameela
• Kalaranjini
• Visu as Chakravarthi's father-in-law
• Oru Viral Krishna Rao
• Loose Mohan
• Omakuchi Narasimhan
• Pyramid Natarajan
• M. S. Bhaskar
• Gundu Kalyanam
• Master Haja Sheriff
• Jithan
• Sethu Vinayagam
• S Narasimhan
• Thayir Vadai Desikan
• Kanchi Ramesh
• Raghuvaran (special appearance)
• Karthik

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by Vijay Anand, and the lyrics were written by Vaali.^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Nizhaledhu"	Malaysia Vasudevan, M. Jayachandran
2.	"Uravugal Oru"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
3.	"Chittang Chittang"	S. Janaki
4.	"Oruvanukku Oruthi"	Vani Jairam, K. S. Chithra
5.	"Pothum Pothum"	Malaysia Vasudevan

Reception

The Indian Express wrote, "It is Prabhu who must be singled out for honours."^[3] Jayamanmadhan of Kalki compared the film unfavourably to Visu's earlier films.^[4]

References

1. "Kavalan Avan Kovalan". The Indian Express. 29 May 1987. p. 4. Retrieved 13 March 2018 – via Google News Archive.
2. "Kavalan Avan Kovalan Tamil Vinyl Record By Vijayanand". Banumass. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
3. Krishnaswamy, N. (5 June 1987). "Good ploy". The Indian Express. p. 12. Archived from the original on 24 April 2024. Retrieved 24 April 2024 – via Google News Archive.
4. ஜெயமன்மதன் (14 June 1987). "காவலன் அவன் கோவலன்". Kalki (in Tamil). p. 65. Archived from the original on 8 August 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.

External links

• Kavalan Avan Kovalan at IMDb