ANNAPOORANI – MOVIE REVIEW

ANNAPOORANI is a social family drama produced by Trident Arts and written and directed by Nilesh Krishnaa.

The film makes a pleasant beginning and makes the right noises until a particular scene where the real contours of the film starts unraveling. Then on it becomes perceptible and clear that the film’s primary focus more or less is to clobber a particular community and climb fictitious moral grounds of cockeyed religious forbearance that is more or less the responsibility of the obvious. Like for an instance where a character from the minority religion preaches a Brahmin girl on the religious scriptures that she follows and the practice of meat eating in them and how meat should not be an obstacle in her becoming a world class chef. If only he was asked in return about a particular meat??. Setting these duplicities aside, the film still falls flat in terms of its execution. The drama feel is too hard to ignore and the writing is lackluster. The viewer hardly has any portion to root for the main character and the entire length of the film is spent going through the motions. Climax is no better as the fatuous attempt to exemplify communal harmony (read appeasement) reach preposterous levels.

Nayanthara clearly has run out of steam and there is nothing she cooks that we have not seen. Sathyaraj is the same dad everyone is used to. Karthik Kumar has just one expression in the entire film. Jai is there for only one reason and that is amusing. Achyuth Kumar is good and so is KS Ravikumar.

Sathyan Sooryan’s cinematography is neat. Thaman’s background score is out of place and annoying to say the least. Dialogues are OK. Editing by Praveen Antony works. Direction is standard.

ANNAPOORANI is undercooked and overdressed !!

ANNAPOORANI – AAMAI !!

2/5

B.U.Shreesha