MS Raaja’s ‘Sevappi’, on Aha OTT, is a multi-character village drama whose “moments” keep us interested, invested

This debut film features Poornima Ravi, Rishikanth. What it lacks in craft, it makes up for with good writing and emotional honesty.

MS Raaja’s Sevappi is set in a small village in the 1990s, and in an early scene, a widower named Paruthi (Sebastin Antony) drops his young son off at the house of a woman named Boomi (Poornima Ravi). She has lost her spouse, too, and she, too, has a young son, Kumaran (Shravan Athvethan). The boys are best friends, and Paruthi knows his son will be safe with Boomi – because they, too, were friends while in school, and this friendship has lasted to this day. Boomi’s brother, one day, asks Paruthi if there could be more to this relationship. He asks if Paruthi would consider marrying Boomi. Paruthi refuses. He says that Boomi seems happy being Kumaran’s mother, and perhaps, for her, that relationship is enough. Why thrust her into a new one?

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