Annakodi Movie Review

Cast : Lakshman Narayan , Karthika Nair , Manoj Bharathiraja

Direction : Bharathiraja

Music : GV Prakash

Producer : Bharathiraja

Bharathiraja – He is definitely one of the most talented directors in Tamil Cinema. His last Tamil movie “Bommalattam” got released in 2008. He is known for giving wonderful village-centric movies such as 16 Vayathinalae, Mudhal Mariyathai, Azhaigal Oyivathillai,etc. But, also, at the same time he had given us wonderful thriller movie such as “Sigappu Rojakkal”, “Tik Tik Tik”,etc too. His last movie Bommalattam was one of the best thriller movies in Tamil Cinema with unbelievable twist in the climax. He is now back to his fort (village-centric) movie – Annakodi. This movie was earlier titled as “Annakodiyum Kodiveeranum” with Iniya & Parthiban in the lead role. Later, Ameer was informed to play the Kodiveeran role. Then, the movie underwent lots of casting changes and may be even the story change. Kodiveeran characterization had been reduced and it got released with the title “Annakodi”. Movie got released today without much promotion. Legendary Director Manirathnam couldn’t satisfy his fans with his last movie “Kadal”. Let us see whether Bharatiraja satisfies the common man in this review.

Story: It is almost remake of 16 Vayathilae with inspirations from Sindhu Samaveli & Bharatiraja’s earlier movies.

Lakshman Narayan makes his debut through this movie. He doesn’t fit the rural guy role in the movie. He has to improve on all departments. It is very surprising to see that a lead actor from Bharatiraja movie failing miserably.

Karthika Nair – It is her second tamil movie after acting in Blockbuster hit “KO”. Her characterization was very BOLD and she had done a decent job. They are scenes in the movie where she has to run with bareback and she had to be appreciated for taking this challenging role. She is one of the very few lucky heroines nowadays to act in the female oriented movie.

Manoj Bharatiraja & Rama Prabha has acted very well in this movie. This is one of the best ever role for Manoj as Villain and he had done an excellent job. Though, in few scenes, he had acted much more than required.

Editor Pazhanivel & New Bridegroom G.V. Prakash have done their job. But, poor screenplay spoils their work.

Bharathiraja will direct movies which are very realistic. But, in this movie, he had used poor visual graphics in the movie for even showing birds which looks very artificial. He is one of the best screenplay writers of Tamil Cinema, but he had failed miserably in that department in this movie. Movie had been certified as U/A, but, it deserves to be certified as “A’’ as they are few vulgar scenes in the movie. First Half of the movie will test the patience of anyone whoever watches the movie. Second Half of the movie has lots of Bold scenes and travels without engaging screenplay.

Verdict : Annakadi is completely outdated movie from Bharathiraja.