Tamil Movie Review Amma Kanakku - Cast & Crew

Amala Paul is the super talented star of South Indian film industry. She is the promising actress that had been critically acclaimed of her work. The south Indian beauty had many ups and downs in her career, but a star shines bright after midnight. She started off with a low budget film ‘Neelathamara’ in 2009 in which she played just a minimal role.

Revathi is a popular south Indian actress, who has appeared in Hindi films too. Born as Asha Kutty, she changed her name to Revathi, for the stage. Right from the beginning of her career, she did not lose her popularity, because of her excellent performances. Mann Vasanai, directed by Bharathi Raja is her first movie. Pudhumai Penn was the movie that showed her in a different angle and she was praised for her performance. Pagal Nilavu is one of her top snatched films and in Aan Pavam she acted as a dumb girl, who lost her voice in an accident. In this film, she paired with Pandiya Rajan and the movie was a super hit. Kai Kodukkum Kai is the only film, she paired Rajini Kanth. She has acted with Kamal Hassan in a number of films, among which Oru Kaidhiyin Diary, Magalir Mattum, Thevar Magan and Punnagai Mannan are memorable. In Magalir Mattum, she co-starred with Urvashi and Rohini and the film was a super hit.

Malavika was born on 19th July 1979 in Bangalore. Malavika’s original name was Shweta Konnur Menon. She was later called Malavika. She is an actress of various Tamil movies. Fond of acting since childhood, her career started in the year 1999 with the film Unnai Thedi. It was a Tamil film. She played the role Malavika in the picture, and people started recognizing her by this name. The movie was not that hit, but people appreciated her acting and hard work. Sundar C was the director who gave her the break in the industry.

Ashwini Iyer is a motion picture director from India. She is known to direct predominant films made in the Hindi language. She initialized her career with working in the movie sector, but not direction. The earliest of her works can be traced back to her work in Bhootnath Returns. She held the job of the creative consultant of the movie. She gradually climbed the ladder to start engaging in direction.

Yuvasri Lakshmi or Yuva Lakshmi was born in 2002, in Karaikal, Puducherry, India. She works in Kollywood industry and is known as the “Doll of South Indian Cinema”. She worked as a child actor in a short film called “Parvai”, after which she got a recommended for the remake of movie Nil Battey Sannata which was named Amma Kanakku. She made her debut in the Tamil movie Amma Kanakku(2016) with Amala Paul and Samuthirakani as her co-actors. The movie is a Tamil Drama which was produced by Anand L. Rai and Dhanush. Yuvasri is seen playing the role of Abhinaya, the daughter of the maid Shanti (Amala Paul).

    Anand L. Rai's first venture 'Strangers' is a psychological thriller. After his debut movie, he did 'Thodi Life Thoda Magic' in the year 2008. His huge success as a director happened in the year 2013 in his movie 'Tanu Weds Manu' starring R.Madhavan and Kangana Ranaut. This film portrayed a different dimension of love rather than the usual way of a love affair. After this hit, he joined hands with the Kollywood star Dhanush in the movie 'Raanjhaana'. This had been the debut movie for Dhanush in Bollywood and Dhanush got Filmfare Award for this movie. 

     In the year 2015, Anand L. Rai wanted to keep up his magical romantic comedy style of movies. As an attempt to make a hat trick success, he made a sequel of his film 'Tanu Weds Manu'. It was titled as 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns'. The team of Anand L.Rai again made a magical success and it lived up to the expectations of everybody. Without a doubt, it had also become a blockbuster movie and achieved box office success. Anand L. Rai is a well sensible director and his five experimental movies turned up quite well. He is known for his perfect success formula and the wonder of his screenplay.

This lanky superstar Dhanush is an actor from Tamil cinema but has appeared in two Hindi films too. He credits R Balki and Anand L Rai for making him consider acting in Hindi films (‘Shamitaabh’ and ‘Raanjhana’). In the year 2011-12, his song  “Why This Kolaveri Di’’ continued to rise on the charts and gain millions of viewers on YouTube. Dhanush happens to be the youngest actor to receive the national film award for his performance in “Aadukalam”. 

Gavemic is a very well-known cinematographer in Indian cinema. Thanjavur is his birthplace. He was, however, brought up in Pondicherry. His father is an ex-police officer, his mom is a homemaker and his sister, who is younger than him, is a fashion designer. His granddad was his influence and the reason that he fell in love with cinematography. He was eleven when he got his first camera and immediately started taking pictures of whatever he came across. He, later on, borrowed his grandfather’s SLR camera to click pictures. His religion at birth was Hariharan, but he converted to Buddhism later on. When he converted religions, he also underwent a name change and kept it as Gavemic U Ary. The reason he changed his name was because of his ‘guru’ who introduced him to Buddhism. His career in the Indian film industry began in the early 2000’s. In the year 2007, he shot documentaries and commercials independently. However, this work was not creatively satisfying for him.

The maverick director of Kannada film industry Duniya Soori has introduced this film actor Vicky in his latest flick Kendasampige. This year has been really a good year for all the new debutants in Sandalwood. The new actors were not trained in acting, but their talent and good acting have really impressed the viewers. The new hero in Sandalwood is Vicky among them. His real name is Santhosh. This actor had changed name to Vicky with this new film. Hereafter the Kannada film industry will know Santhosh by Vicky always. Santhosh, who made his Sandalwood debut through Kendasampige was actually Soori's driver and associate director in the past. When the director was on a lookout for a new face for the film Kendasampige, he felt Santhosh could fit into the character and could also become an ideal actor. Thus, the director gave him an offer and Santhosh too readily agreed to play the role of a lover in the film opposite another new debutante lady Manvita Harish (Shwetha). It was difficult for him to reject the offer and thus the actor came to limelight. As he has not signed any film so far, one can only hope that many new promising scripts will be in his hands soon. His parents, who were movie buffs allowed Santhosh to see a movie every week without fail. That is how he developed an interest in films. The dream turned into passion and he managed to get introduced to Yograj Bhat (who was working as assistant director to Duniya Soori). Thus Vicky (Santhosh) became another team member in director Soori’s team. 

Although he has been getting offers, his motive is to direct a movie soon. He has seen few scripts and hope to make it work along with other colleagues involved in the whole team of director Duniya Soori. Apart from listening to music, his passion is to learn everything about films. One has to watch and see what this new actor has for the film lovers.

S Vinod is an executive producer seen investing primarily in South Indian movies. Vinod was an executive producer in movies, Maari 2 (2018), Ladoo (2018), and Moothon (2019).

Nitesh Tiwari is an Indian writer and director; he works in the Hindi Film Industry, Bollywood. He was born in Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh. He has written a story, screenplay and dialogues of the film, ‘Chillar Party’ in 2011; also co-directed the film with Vikas Bahl. Further, he was written and directed the film ‘Bhoothnath Returns’, which released in 2014. He has written dialogues and screenplay for the film ‘Kill Dil’ (2014). He directed a film with Aamir Khan in a lead role; the film titled ‘Dangal’ released in 2016. Nitesh has also written the story, screenplay and dialogues of the film ‘Dangal’.

Baba Bhaskar is a popular Indian movie director as well as a Choreographer, who mainly works in the South Indian movie industry. He mostly features in Tamil movies, but he also works in other language industries such as Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu films as well. He started his career with the movie Kotha Bangaru Lokam, which is a Telugu movie as a Choreographer. Later, Baba worked in the Tamil film Kedi which got him great recognition. Presently, he is taking part in one of the famous TV reality show Bigg Boss Telugu Season 3, which is hosted by Akkineni Nagarjuna.

Ilaiyaraaja is a renowned film composer, known around the world for his finest works. With more than 5000 songs, he is known to be one of the best composers India has yet to produce. Ilaiyaraaja is also widely acknowledged as a songwriter, conductor, singer, and instrumentalist. Ilaiyaraaja’s works stand out particularly due to his talent for fusing traditional Indian instrumentation with symphonic orchestration.

Samuthirakani has carved a niche for himself in the Tamil cine industry not only as a director but also as an actor. He has tried his luck in screenwriting and voice-over too. One of his earlier films, Nadodigal, was a huge hit at the box office. It was released in the year 2009. Later, this movie was remade in three different languages. Samuthirakani has acted in numerous movies and is best known for his performance in the movies like ‘Sattai’, ‘Easan’, ‘Visaranai’, and ‘Subramaniapuram’.