Tamil Movie Review Kodi - Cast & Crew

Born on February 18, 1996, this young flattering face is making her debut in an in a Malayalam Film called Premam. She is an Indian actress born to Parameshwaran and Sunitha Parameshwaran in Irinjalakuda in Kottayam district, Kerala. She is currently pursuing her degree in BA Communicative English at CMS College Kottayam. Anupama does not have any prior experience in the showbiz. In fact, she applied for the auditions for this role through Facebook. She played the role of Mary, The first young crush of the character George in his higher secondary school. Despite the role being small, she won the hearts of her audience through her fresh look and performance. Prenam 2015 is a Malayalam super hit film written, edited, and directed by Alphonse Putharen, produced by Anwar Rasheed while staring superstars such as NivinPauly. The movie, released on 29 May 2015 had a high budget of 4 crores which paid off as the movie is considered as a blockbuster. Anupama believes that she has a lot to thank for, especially as not everyone gets a chance to act side by side a great actor such as Nivin Pauly. She took this opportunity as a great learning experience for her future films and is excited as more work is coming her way.

Born on 4th May, 1983 in Palakkad by Krishnan and Uma Krishnan as her parents. Before starting her carrer in modelling and acting, she did her schooling from Sacred Heart Matriculation school in Church Park and then BBA from Ethiraj College for Women (Chennai). She entered into film industry after making a mark as a model and winning several beauty pageants like Miss Salem and Miss Madras in the same year. In 2001, she won Miss India Pageant “Beautiful Smile” award. She got her first acting break in Tamil film Jodie. After that, she got her first lead role in Mounam Pesiyadhe (2002) opposite Surya and won critical acclaim.

Saranya Ponvannan is one of the best actresses in the last three decades of the Tamil film and TV industry has seen. She first made her entry into the industry by playing the lead role alongside Kamal Haasan in the blockbuster movie ‘ Nayakan’ directed by Mani Ratnam. She played a res-cued sex worker and pulled off the role with panache. She is the daughter of Malayalam director A.B Raj and is married to a fellow actor Ponvannan with whom she has two daughters.

Shweta Mohan is a female playback singer in Indian cinema who is also the daughter of playback singer Sujatha Mohan. Like her mother, she also had sung in various languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. She was born on 19 November 1985 in Chennai.  In fact, earlier she was a bit hesitant to take up singing as her career. But as she sung, she enjoyed singing very much. Had not she been in singing, she could have opted for doing MBA and got settled other way. 

Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tulu, Punjabi, and Urdu. She has a record of being able to record more than 25,000 songs and the number is still increasing. In addition to these recorded songs, she also participated in countless concerts.

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”. 

Venkatesh S is an Indian cinematographer. He has mainly worked for the Tamil Film Industry. He began working as a director of photography or cinematographer in 2014. The first film for which he worked as Vadacurry was released in 2014. He handled other film projects as a cinematographer, such films are Kodi (2016) and Tik Tik Tik (2018). Tik Tik Tik (2018) is an adventure film based on a Sci-Fi thriller story directed by Shakti Soundar Rajan. Besides working as a cinematographer, he also worked as an actor. The film for which he worked as an actor was “Calls,” released in 2021. He received a nomination for the film “Tik Tik Tik” at the South Indian International Movie Awards.

Santhosh Narayanan was born on 15 May 1983 in Tamil Nadu. He is a musician and a movie composer by profession in Tamil movie industry. Santhosh attended school at RSK Higher Secondary School and did his college from J. J. College of Engineering and Technology. Initially, Santhosh started his career as a recording engineer, and one of his first works includes working as an assistant with A. R. Rahman. He was also a member of a folk music band ‘La Pongal.’

Arunraja Kamaraj known as a singer, actor, and director was born in Peru, near Kulithalia town in Tamil Nadu. He did his schooling from Government Boys Higher Secondary School and Higher Secondary schooling from Bishop Heber Higher Secondary School.

Vivekanandan is the birth name of the versatile comedian Vivek. He is introduced by the legendary director Balachander through the film Manadhil Urudhi Vendum. It is the film in which Ramesh Arvind was also introduced. They both acted as brothers of Suhasini in that film. He got famous through Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal, as his dialogue Innaikku Seththa Naalaikku Paal reached the viewers well. He acted with top actors and reached fame within a short span. He performed with Rajini in Uzhaippali, Veera and Sivaji. His role in Kadhal Mannan, an Ajith starter, was loved by many people. Vivek acted with Vijay in Kushi and Priyamanavale. He performed with Vadivelu in few films and the notable one is Middle Class Madhavan, a Prabhu movie. Both Vadivel and Vivek performed humorously in that film. After the invasion of many comedians like Santhanam and Suri, the chances get lessened for Vivek. He performed as Eka in the Dhanush movie Uthamaputhiran, which was outstanding. Singham of Surya had Vivek as a Police constable. His recent movies are Velai Illa Pattadhaari with Dhanush and Yennai Arindhaal with Ajith. He has also acted as a solo hero in the film named Nan Than Bala. The film did not go well as expected, but he has won positive criticism from the critics. 

Airtel Super Singer season 5 fame Anand Aravindakshan is now a singing sensation ruling over the state. 2k16 saw the uplift of this singer to a beautiful musician. As they say, hard work pays off, true in this case too, but his voice has something magical to do with the ears of the listeners. That’s what got him this big a success. 1989 Kerela born, this Tamil singer is now residing in Chennai. He completed his high school from Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School. For his higher studies and graduation, he opted for Sound tech Media of Sound Engineering and Recording. Just when you think this is it, let me tell you he is an MBA from Symbiosis International University. He kick-started his career with his debut by Onbadhule Guru from the movie Neeraparavi. The magic of his voice soothed us as many other names like Pandiyanaadu, Madha Yaanai Kootam, and 10 Endrathukulla.

Vijay Narain is an Indian playback singer and music director, popular amongst the audience for his work on the soundtracks of movies like Vada Chennai (2018), Manithan (2016), Irudhi Suttru (2016), Eka Veera (2012), etc.

Durairaj is an Associate Art Director. Durairaj was born in Chennai. His father worked for the highways department. He completed his schooling and then completed a Bachelor’s and master’s degree in visual communication in the college of arts Chennai. He worked as an art director in 2013 in Naan_ Rajayaga_Pogiren and Udhayam_NH4. In 2014 he was Art Director in Eetti and Kaaki Sattai. He was born on 19 February 1979.His nickname is Durai.

Prakash Mabbu is an Indian video editor, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Kodi (2016). Mostly known for his major involvement in Tamil TV shows, short films, documentaries, and Kollywood movies, Prakash has been working in the film industry for more than thirteen years now. Since his childhood, Prakash was keenly interested in video editing. In 2016, he made his first momentous contribution on the silver screen with the Tamil action film Kodi. Since then, Prakash has made a lot of progress and improved a lot as an editor. Over the years, Prakash has worked with some renowned names like Dhanush, Anupama Parameswaran, Santhosh Narayanan, etc.

Kali Venkat hails from a rural village named Kovilpatti in Tamil Nadu from where he came to Chennai to pursue his acting career. From childhood, he had a huge passion and interest for acting, He used to take part in lots of dramas hosted in his school and his locality since he was studying in the eighth standard. Realizing that his village would limit his acting career to the stage and the drama medium alone, He moves to Chennai for further opportunities.

“Laughing kills diseases,” is a famous line that everyone knows about, and Singamuthu is the person who makes us primarily obey the above statement in an indirect fashion. Though it’s obvious from the introduction, it’s not a muck to mention that, Singamuthu is a South Indian comedian, Tamil being his most fluent language. Comedy is the most entertaining thing that induces every one of its prey in a jovial manner. Singamuthu had his feet on this world on Monday, 8th December 1958, Monday.

R S Durai Senthilkumar is a Tamil film director and writer who gave his first debut film recently in the year 2013. Within just three years in the industry, he won an award and was also in the best debut director nominations. He has worked under ‘Vetrimaaran’ who is also a film director. He has learned a lot from him and is on a track of making some marvelous movies.

Namo Narayanan was a South Indian actor. He predominantly performs comic roles in Tamil Movies. Namo Narayanan is an extremely talented actor who received huge appreciation right from his very first movie. His first movie was ‘Nadodigal’ released in the year 2009, in which he played a comic role and turned out to be instant success. Due his fabulous comic skills and funny timing, he has been offered with many Tamil as well as Malayalam movies as well. After his much appreciated hilarious role in Nadodigal’, Namo Narayanan went on to do comic roles in movies like ‘ Kutti Puli’ released in the year 2013, followed by another movie ‘Yaamirukka Bayamey’ that released in the year 2014. Though, all of his performances were appreciated.But the movie that came as a breakthrough in his career was ‘Komban’ released in the year 2015.

S.A. Chandrasekhar is an Indian film maker, writer and director. He was born in Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu. He is married to an eminent Carnatic singer, Shoba. His son is the popular Kollywood actor Vijay. He has directed over 75 movies in Tamil and his hits include Mutham, Vetri, Manithan and Naan Sigappu. He also showed his directorial mettle in the Telugu industry through Chiranjeevi starrer Chattaniki Kallu Levu. He was also seen as a supporting actor in Naan Sivappu Manithan. He has worked as an assistant director with M Rajesh in Touring Talkies. Pandhayam is a Tamil film directed by Chandrashekar, which starred Sindhu Tolani, Nithin Sathya and Vijay (guest role). The plot was based on the story of a criminal and thug. Masanam (essayed by Prakash Raj) becomes the minister, and Shaktivel falls in love with the minister’s sister (essayed by Sindhu Tolani). The series of events leads to a dramatic climax. Chandrashekhar had earlier announced to the media that Touring Talkies will be his last film, and it was to be released in 2015. He had informed that it was the right time for him to step down from the Tamil Cinema and take time out for his family. In Touring Talkies, Chandrashekar himself had acted alongside a Bengali actress, Papri Gosh. Its music was composed by Ilayaraja. Nenjierukkum Varai is another film directed by Chandrashekar, which stars Deepa, Narain, Nassar, Thalaivasal Vijay and Livingston.

P Madan is an Indian film producer, who established the production banner, Escape Artists Motion Pictures. In 2010, he was debuted as a producer in Gautham Vasudev Menon’s musical romantic drama film, Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa. The following year, he has produced the critically acclaimed Tamil mystery dramedy film, Azhagarsamiyin Kudhirai, which was screened at the 2011 Toronto International film Festival and bagged a National Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. Though this film was a hit, P Madan considered his next film, Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga (2013), as his major breakthrough and a turning point in his film career.

Vetrimaaran is an Indian director and screenwriter in Tamil Film Industry. Born in Cuddalore, Vetrimaaran is from Ranipet, Vellore District, Tamilnadu. He was born to Dr. V. Chitravel who was a veterinary scientist and Megala Chitravel who was a well known Novelist. Vetrimaaran studied till his tenth grade in Ranipet. Later in 1994 he moved to Chennai to pursue English Literature from Loyola College. Vetrimaaran discontinued his Master's degree and showed interest in making a career in the film industry. The Loyola department of visual communications offered him an elective course known as Television presentation. As Vetrimaaran completed this course, he started developing an interest in filmmaking. Vetrimaaran started his career as an assistant director to Balu Mahendra for Kadai Neram for Sun TV.

Kottachi is a Tamil comedian actor who has been assigned a brief role in a few upcoming movies. The actor was first spotted in a role of the dramatist in the movie ‘Kaaviya Thalaivan’ which was directed by Vasanthabalan. The film made a clean sweep at the box office and even won maximum award nominations at the 62nd Filmfare Awards (south) ceremony. The film had Siddharth, Prithviraj, Vedhika in lead roles. It was a periodic dramatic film set in the pre-independence era. This film was released in the year 2014.