Selva is a 1996 Indian Tamil-language romantic action film directed by A. Venkatesh.^[1] The film stars Vijay, Swathi, Riva and Raghuvaran. The music is composed by Sirpy. The film was a successful venture.^[2][3]

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Selva lives in a colony. He is the son of lawyer Varatharajan but he lives separately. It turns out that he is the adopted son of Varatharajan and he gets shocked whenever Selva speaks or fights against injustice. He is a man who hates injustice and fights against it. Meanwhile, a minister's daughter moves into the colony. She moves friendly with Selva. Sumathi who is in love with Selva mistakes their friendship. Vartharajan works for a terrorist group that kidnaps the minister's daughter. Selva goes to the rescue of the girl. However, Selva kills his father because Varatharajan was going to kill Kamini. Finally, they will come out of the clutch of the terrorists.

Vijay performed a risky jump stunt in the film without using a double.^[4]

All songs were written by Vaali and music was composed by Sirpy.^[5]

Ananda Vikatan rated the film 30 out of 100.^[6] R. P. R. of Kalki praised Vijay for acting with life and performing stunts and called Raghuvaran's performance as the only entertaining thing from the film but felt the film had no plot and two of the actresses were underutilised.^[7]