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Selvi

2026 · 97 min

A quiet, exhausting plunge into caregiving, where long hours blur duty and selfhood into a heavy, tender ache.

Directed by
Sailesh Rathnakumar
Genres
Drama
Starring
Anjali Patil, Swathy Krishnan, Vinoth Kishan
Overview
After her best friend Kavitha’s sudden collapse, Selvi, a home care nurse, takes on her shifts in addition to her own, determined to hold everything together. Moving from one house to another, she spends her days caring for the elderly, rarely stopping to rest. As the long hours blur the boundaries between care and exhaustion, Selvi begins to confront the weight of guilt, love, and survival.

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Directed by
Sailesh Rathnakumar
Genres
Drama
Starring
Anjali Patil, Swathy Krishnan, Vinoth Kishan
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • guilt
  • survival
  • isolation
  • friendship
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Sailesh Rathnakumar
Written by
Bargav Sridhar, Sailesh Rathnakumar
Starring
Anjali Patil, Swathy Krishnan, Vinoth Kishan, Kitty, Mekha Rajan, Archana Padmini, Semmalar Annam, S. Vinodh Kailash
Music
Suren Vikhash
Cinematography
Bargav Sridhar
Runtime
97 min
Country
India
Languages
Tamil

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