'Kannagi' Review: Keerthi Pandian, Ammu Abhirami's film is a convoluted mess – India Today

The trailer of ‘Kannagi’ generated a constructive buzz on social media. It is about 4 ladies, who’re in numerous phases of their lives and scuffling with it being oppressed by the boys or the society. The promo gave a way of what was about to come back. ‘Kannagi’ may have been an empowering story of 4 ladies and the way they break the shackles of oppression to guide a traditional life. Sadly, the thrill ends with the trailer.

Kalai (Ammu Abhirami) is a lady in her 20s, who meets potential grooms on a suggestion from her conservative mom (Mounika). Her open-minded father (Mayilsamy) is her solely help. Kalai’s grooms get rejected left, proper and centre by her mom as she needs her daughter to guide a cushty life. Nethra (Vidhya Pradeep) is a married lady, who’s preventing a divorce case in courtroom. Her husband and in-laws accuse her of being infertile to hunt divorce. She believes in marriage and learns the reality through the courtroom hearings.

Nadhi (Shaalin Zoya) is an outgoing lady who does not imagine in marriage. She needs companionship and is portrayed as an final feminist. Lastly, we get to see Geetha (Keerthi Pandian), who’s in a relationship with an assistant director (Yashwanth Kishore), attempting to abort her child. How do these 4 characters lead their lives and do their lives converge at any second? Let’s discover out.

Here is the trailer:

Director Yashwanth Kishore’s intention to make an empowering feminist movie is value appreciation. Nevertheless, ‘Kannagi’ is an instance of the phrase – not all good scripts make good movies. The movie is a convoluted mess with unclear concepts. The movie is neither right here nor there. It does not let you know if it goals to be progressive or not. The movie tries to speak about subjects like divorce, ladies’s rights, however does not let characters say that she has durations.

The movie exhibits a pair attempting to get their child aborted. However, it does not look convincing. In Nethra’s story, she believes that marriage is her protect and worships her thaali (mangalsutra). Nadhi is portrayed as a insurgent. When she will get reprimanded at her workplace for placing her legs on prime of her desk and displaying bra straps, her method of rebelling is sporting her bra over her t-shirt. That is the feminism the movie needs to painting.

Neither the movie language is constant, nor the digicam work. Half of the movie is shot with a high-definition digicam, whereas the opposite parts, particularly Vidhya Pradeep, appear to be they have been shot on a cell phone or a GoPro.

‘Kannagi’ is a testing watch because it retains reminding you that you just want a stable basis to make a movie. The performances of Ammu Abhirami and Vidhya Pradeep are respectable. Shaalin Zoya, in an try to make her character eccentric, goes overboard together with her expressions and her stroll. Mounica brings in an over-the-top mom character from a tv serial to this movie. Keerthi Pandian doesn’t have quite a lot of dialogue however performs effectively.

The best way the 4 tales converge at a degree in ‘Kannagi’ through the climax did not repay effectively both. It’s accomplished in a way that would depart the viewers confused.

Briefly, ‘Kannagi’ is a wasted alternative.

1.5 out of 5 stars for ‘Kannagi’.

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