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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Aadi Velli<br />
| image = AAdivellifilm.jpg<br />
| caption = <br />
| director = [[Rama Narayanan]]<br />
| writer = G. K. (dialogues)<br />
| starring = [[Seetha (actress)|Seetha]] <br> [[Nizhalgal Ravi]]<br />
| producer = N.Radha<br />
| music = [[Shankar–Ganesh]]<br />
| cinematography = [[N. K. Viswanathan]]<br />
| editing = Rajkeerthi<br />
| story = Rama Narayanan<br />
| studio = [[Sri Thenandal Films]]<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = 2 February 1990<br />
| runtime = 160 minutes<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = Tamil<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Aadi Velli''''' is a 1990 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language film directed by [[Rama Narayanan]] and produced by N.Radha, starring [[Seetha (actress)|Seetha]] and [[Nizhalgal Ravi]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Aadi Velli Vinyl LP Records|url=http://musicalaya.net/imgviewer.php?mod=lpcovers/2/3/1/1|publisher=musicalaya|accessdate=2014-04-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407094452/http://musicalaya.net/imgviewer.php?mod=lpcovers%2F2%2F3%2F1%2F1|archive-date=7 April 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The film was remade in Kannada as ''Durgasthami''.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
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Aadi Velli (a Friday on one of the months as per Tamil Calendar) is a Tamil devotional movie in which a snake and an elephant plays key roles, assisting heroine to over come the attacks posed by her villainous husband.<br />
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The story revolves around a beautiful village girl Seetha who is living with an elephant and a cobra who obey only to her. She is very much attracted and attached to the local village deity and she lives in nearby area around the temple. Then comes the villain Nizhalgal Ravi who wants to abduct all the wealth of the temple. He meets Seetha and was attracted to her at the first sight. He befriends her and makes her to love him too under circumstances but always disliked by the elephant and cobra. Very soon Seetha realizes that her husband is a thief and shocked. Meanwhile, Nizhalgal Ravi along with his computer genius friend plots several attempts to plunder the jewels and precious items from the temple but goes all in vain, saved by the duo. In the climax, the genius friend builds a devil creature called [King Kattari] using his computer to loot the temple. The cobra, by the deity's blessing takes the size of huge anaconda and charges against King Kattari. Meanwhile, during the fight Nizhalgal Ravi realizes his friend plans to loot all properties himself and kill him.<br />
Finally the cobra bites the devil and kills him, which in turn kills the computer genius through electro-evenomation.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
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*[[Seetha (actress)|Seetha]]<br />
*[[Nizhalgal Ravi]]<br />
*[[Chandrasekhar (Tamil actor)|Chandrasekhar]]<br />
*[[Aruna Mucherla|Aruna]]<br />
*[[Venniradai Moorthy]]<br />
*[[Y. Vijaya]]<br />
*[[Ra. Sankaran]]<br />
*[[Pradeep Shakti]]<br />
*[[Kullamani]]<br />
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==Soundtrack==<br />
Soundtrack was composed by [[Shankar–Ganesh]].<ref>https://bollywoodvinyl.in/collections/kannada-malayalam-telugu-tamil-lps/products/aadivelli-1989-tamil-vinyl-l-p</ref><br />
{|class="wikitable"<br />
! S. No. !! Track !! Singer(s)<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || "Vanna Vizhiyazhagi" || [[K. S. Chitra]]<br />
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| 2 || "Vellikizhamai Ramasaamy" || [[Vani Jairam]]<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || "Gum Gum Guma" || [[Mano (singer)|Mano]], [[S. P. Sailaja]]<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || "Sonnapetcha Kekkanum" || [[M. S. Rajeswari]]<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || "Aayi Mahamayi" || [[S. P. Sailaja]]<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || "Baama Thallipoma" || Mano, S. P. Sailaja<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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==Reception==<br />
People of south India flocked the theatres running the film to feel the effect of "computer technology Vs holiness".<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
{{Rama Narayanan}}<br />
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[[Category:1990 films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:1990s Tamil-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Rama Narayanan]]<br />
[[Category:Hindu devotional films]]<br />
[[Category:Films scored by Shankar–Ganesh]]<br />
[[Category:Tamil films remade in other languages]]<br />
[[Category:Films about snakes]]<br />
[[Category:Films about elephants]]<br />
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