Annai Kaligambal Explained

Annai Kaligambal/Shri Kalikamba
Director:Rama Narayanan
Producer:N. Radha
Starring:Ramya Krishnan
Anu Prabhakar
Livingston (Tamil)
Vinod Alva (Kannada)
Music:Deva
Cinematography:N. K. Viswanathan
Editing:Raajkeerthi
Studio:Sri Thenandal Films
Runtime:136 minutes
Country:India
Language:Tamil
Kannada

Annai Kaligambal is a 2003 Indian devotional film written and directed by Rama Narayanan. The film featured Ramya Krishnan in the title role alongside Anu Prabhakar and Livingston, while Jayanthi plays a supporting role. The film, which had music composed by Deva, released in January 2003. The film was simultaneously shot in Tamil and Kannada, with the latter titled as Shri Kalikamba, with Vinod Alva and Tennis Krishna replacing Livingston and Vennira Aadai Moorthy respectively.[1] Kannada version was dubbed in Hindi as Maa Durga Divya Haathi and in Telugu as Allari Gajendrudu.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by Deva and lyrics were written by Kalidasan.[2]

Reception

Chennai Online wrote "Rama Narayanan’ s films are becoming monotonous and stereotyped. You’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. The only consolation for the film-maker is that, shot on a limited budge, and patronised by the rural and the suburban folk, the film manages to recover the cost. So, who are we to grudge him!".[3] Viggy wrote "People from Telugu and Tamil film industry are always the leaders in making spiritual movies and so is the director of Sri Kalikamba - Ramnarayan. Has done a good job in extracting their best out of all actors even from animals like elephant, monkey etc".

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2011-03-13 . Sri Kalikamba film review - a spiritual film by Ram Narayan . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20140309112847/http://www.viggy.com/english/review_kalikamba.asp . 9 March 2014 . 2021-07-07 . Viggy.com.
  2. Web site: Annai Kalikambal (2003) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170507093233/http://mio.to/album/Annai+Kalikambal+(2003) . 7 May 2017 . 14 March 2024 . Music India Online.
  3. Web site: Mannath . Malini . 2 February 2003 . Annai Kaaligambal . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050408210826/http://www.chennaionline.com/Moviereviews/tammov246.asp . 8 April 2005 . 14 March 2022 . Chennai Online.