Sema

Synopsis: A vegetable vendor marries a girl against her father's wish. The couple, with the help of their respective mothers, manage to hide it from the girl's father till she gives birth to a child.
 
IMDB:
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Year:
2018
123 min
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'Awesome'

'Good times around the corner'

'Auspicious days will favor'

'Alandur

Trichy'

'A new innings and fresh beginnings'

'Joys to bloom anew

All your dreams will come true'

'This house will soon revel

fame and fortune as well'

'Lo and behold!

Auspicious events will unfold'

Near a temple and a lake...

...like Goddess Lakshmi, a spouse

for the prince of this house

The perfect bride

In case she doesn't show up...

...bad events should follow

So says our own Delphi, Jakkamma

'A canopy should be raised

in front of this house'

Food should be served

to one and all

'Whether the future holds

good or bad for the family...'

'...rests in the hands of

the lady of this house'

'It is the oracle of Jakkamma'

'Happy days are round the corner'

Aravalli akka, what's news?

Last night I believe

our local soothsayer...

...predicted good events will follow

or else misfortune will fall upon you?

Were you eavesdropping?

As if that's my occupation

all the time!

I come from a better

lineage than that

The wind just carried

his words into my ears!

Good event means a wedding

What does he mean by misfortune?

My funeral!

Why are you cursing yourself?

As if it can't be your son

Kuzhandhai's wedding?

I know of a girl

in a 'cow dung' family

Why don't we finalize

that alliance for your son?

I want to ask our astrologer

if wedding bells will ring for him

- Good idea

- See you

'Please come and sit here'

- Give me the horoscope

- Greetings, sir

5th house is occupied

by sun, moon and venus

7th and 8th houses

[mutters under his breath]

Horoscope is like Lord Krishna's!

You can find him

amidst girls always

No, it's the opposite

Girls make a beeline to him!

Tomato...tomato...tomato...!

'We have arranged item-wise'

'Please come and buy our tomatoes'

Don't you have Bangalore tomato?

We don't buy from a state

which denies water to us

Buy fresh ones

from Tamil Nadu

Don't start by

getting into trouble

Come, madam

Tomato...toma-

Tomato...tomato!

Pure and fresh

red tomatoes

Tomatoes, dear

Full of cheer!

Tomato...tomato

He has to be on a job

24x7x366!

At the same time

he won't stick to the same job

True, he gets bored easily

'Fish...fish...fish!'

Cat fish, Butter fish

Indian spiny loach

'Please come

ATM also available'

'Fish...fish...fish'

Cat fish

Indian spiny loach

Fish...fish...!

1st cater to the men's needs

They've been waiting for too long

'They won't look at me!'

I know why your brain

is working this way!

You guessed

So do it

He has business acumen

to even sell stale stuff

You bet! In case

he's unable to sell the fish-

Dried fish...dried fish!

'Dried fishes of

all sizes and shapes'

Dried anchovy, dried ribbon fish,

dried tilapia fish

So smooth, you won't feel the fish,

beer, rice or your life slip by!

You can even use it as dowry

With guarantee and warranty

How can you offer

warranty for dead fish?

Business tactics

Knowledge?

He can't read and

I can't tell the time

Bro, 1 tea

With one vada

Don't lean on me, you mop-head!

'As if he's Shakespeare

Pretending to read!'

He'll read newspapers in Telugu,

Malayalam and Hindi word to word

Telugu, Sachin-

Bro, finished seeing the photos?

No cool news to relax

or hot news to drool!

You must read only

Malayalam news

You read so many papers daily

On the whole what is the news?

The same news is expressed

by all of them creatively

No variety, huh?

8 hours ago...

...what we read in Facebook,

Twitter, WhatsApp is refurbished

8 hours later they print this

Newspapers were the

source of news for us

But now we feed news to the Press!

Where is the country?

- He beats uncle Scrooge hollow!

- Bang on!

Won't even extend his hand to anyone

Bro, how are you?

I don't shake hands

I'll lose my power!

- How is business?

- You're bad at this, get lost

Not only bold

but also brave

I'm worse than hero Kamal Haasan!

- What do you mean?

- In bravery!

If I lose a nail,

you'll lose your arm

His stars will make his tongue run

He'll spin yarns too

He has been going in circles

Around the same girl

for the past 3 years

(humming a film song)

Stop, Gayathri

Hi

- Wait

- Why are you hounding me?

I don't know why I'm in love with you

But I love you

I hate seeing your face

Please go away

Just a minute

You hate the sight of me

But don't find me repulsive, right?

My folks find me offensive quite often

I turn a deaf ear to even that!

Go...go...off you go!

What about his wedding?

Generally people face problems

only after marriage

But for him...

...marriage is the vortex

of his problems!

Will any untoward incident

happen because of this?

Yes

Plenty!

He has to be on his guard

He is likely to get married

only for the next 3 months

He crosses that, he won't

marry for another 6 years

So he has to get married

within 3 months?

'Story-Screenplay-Direction

Vallikanth'

1 minute, wait, Gayathri

[humming]

Gayathri, please stop

- Gayathri

- Yes

- Someone is following her

- Yes

How many times to tell these boys

to flirt with a pretty face?

Gayathri, wait

Smart Alec, stop!

How long have you

been hounding her?

3 months

I've been in love and

following her for 3 years

I saw her on January 1st

On 14th wished her

'Happy Pongal' and smiled

She walked away silently

and next day wished me

That was my friend's birthday

On April Fool's day she claimed

she had never loved me

My friend Omagundam chided me

and told me to ditch her

- I broke up

- With me, not her!

Breaking up with your best friend

is the worst thing to go through

The day I apologized to him...

...was Telugu New year's day!

Told her I'll never

trouble her again

1 week...!

I couldn't take it

Though I went in so easily

I couldn't come out

- Were you locked in?

- On April 14th I met her again

She was mad at me, I said,

'Be angry, but don't hate me'

- He praised my dialogs

- Me, huh?

After that, Labor's day,

Ramzan, Independence day

- Lord Krishna's birthday

- Ganesha's birthday!

All the festivals in our calendar

He greeted his girl

even for your grandma's funeral!

Why make him babble?

Even Diwali, Milad un-Nabi,

and Christmas-

The festival of lights in Tiruvannamalai

He goes quite often

Even on Children's day

I am running behind her like a kid

So she is my girl

Looking at her, ogling,

spying on her, drooling

...making a pass, honking

Don't try any of these with her

- That's my job

- We are jobless anyway!

Whose side are you on?

- You

- Then hit him

Hey! Why tell me all this?

How dare you retort!

Why did you hit me?

Buffalo!

Punch him

Get lost

Rascal!

- Like it?

- No

Is that why you stuffed yourself?

Hunger knows no taste

- Did you see my horoscope?

- Yes, I did

You told everyone, if I don't

marry within 3 months

...I won't get married

for the next 6 years?

Yes, I said so

You should've told me first

Now I've wasted 6 days

Only 2 months

and 24 days left

Why ruin my life, ma?

You were following a girl!

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Pandiraj

Pandiraj (பாண்டிராஜ் in Tamil) is an Indian film director and producer, who works in Tamil cinema. His debut film, Pasanga (2009), was commercially successful and won several awards, including the National Film Award for Best Screenplay. As of 2015, he has directed four films and has introduced several actors and technicians in all major departments to the Tamil film industry. more…

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