'''Sati Leelavathi'''


1995 151’ col Tamil
d/sc/c Balu Mahendra pc Rajkamal Film Intl.
st Ananthu dial ‘Crazy’ Mohan lyr Vali
m Ilaiyaraja
lp Ramesh Aravind, Raja, Kalpana,
Kamalahasan, Kovai Sarala, Heera


The married Arunachalam (Aravind) falls for
Priya (Heera) to the distress of his wife
Leelavathi (Kalpana). When Arunachalam
moves out of his home and starts living with
Priya, Leelavathi employs the services of her
husband’s childhood friend Shaktivel
(Kamalahasan), Shaktivel’s wife Pazhani
(Sarala) and Priya’s ex-boyfriend Raja (Raja)
who wants Priya back. An adaptation of Susan
Seidelman’s She-Devil (1989), the film shares
none of Roseanne Barr’s agency in establishing
her own identity while destroying her
husband’s; Mahendra’s more conventionally
melodramatic alternatives were geared to
middle-class acceptance and ensured the film’s
success.

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