R ARIVANANTHAM
The National Poet Mahakavi Subramaniya Bharathiar advocated that “JaadhigaL illlaiyadi paappaa – kulath Thaazhchi uyarchi solal paavam! No castes and sub castes – a sin, To talk in terms of castes good and bad!”
This was well portrayed by former chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and DMK founders Dr CN Annadurai and Dr Kalaignar Dr M Karunanidhi in their Tamil movies. Recently, ‘Pariyerum Perumal’, ‘Jeeva’ and ‘Periyaar’ exposed the caste system in Tamilnadu in a hard hitting fashion. Thus Tamil cinema has done a lot to do away with castesim.
- Former chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and DMK founders Dr CN Annadurai and Dr Kalaignar Dr M Karunanidhi in their Tamil movies tried their best to educate the masses on ill effects of caste system
On the same awareness drive, ‘Nadhi,’ a film to portrait the evils of caste system that ruin the society, hero Sam Jones and also a producer, son of an auto driver dreams of getting a government job and support his family by participating in the National level Badminton competition did his job well.
Kayal Anandhi who hails from a family with political heavy weight and casteist background studies in the same college was his classmate.
They become friends and slowly their relationship moves to the next level.
Anandhi’s family assumes that they both are in love which leads to troubles in Sam’s life. What happens next?
Was Sam able to fulfil his dreams forms is the rest of the story.
The movie is produced by Sam Jones who also plays the lead role. He has carried a very demanding role and has done justice to it. Actress Kayal Anandhi gets a familiar role and delivers her usual performance.
Rest of the cast include Vela Ramamoorthy, Karu Palaniappan, Muneeshkanth have all done their part well.
Director Thamarai Selvan has put in more effort in the screenplay department in the film is convincing.
While music has been scored by Nibunan Thomas cinematography by MS Prabhu.
