Enga Amma Rani Movie Review

Writer: S.Bani
Director : S.Bani
Producer : C.Muthukrishnan
Cast : Dhansika, Varnika, Varsha, Anil Murali, Namo Narayana
Music : Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography : A. Kumaran, SR Santhoshkumar
Editor : A. L. Ramesh
Production company : MK Films
Running Time : 1 hrs 52 mins

A mother’s emotional journey to redeem the lost joy and banish pain is what director Baani’s Enga Amma Rani focalizes all about. It’s really gleeful to see female centric movies that offer the talented actresses to score brownie points. Making a trenchant performance as Rajinikanth’s daughter in Kabali, Dhansika now plays the lead role in ‘Enga Amma Rani’.

Set against backdrops of Malaysia, Dhansika plays the mother of twin daughters Meera and Tara (Varsha and Varnika). Her husband had flown to Cambodia and for three months hasn’t shown up. With so much of pressures bounded to her life, it gets furthermore terrible when Tara breathes her last due to some mysterious disease. Broken down in life, Dhansika faces few more horripilating issues when Meera starts behaving peculiar. Instantly, doctors insist Dhansika to move Meera to a place with cold temperature to prevent her culmination like other daughter. But on the contrary with them reaching in Cameroon, few mishaps occur due to Meera. What’s the real mystery behind her daughter’s behaviour and what really happened to Dhansika husband who went to Cambodia?

When it comes to writing, director Baani has done a decorous work with the first hour drama. We get to see a gripping work of emotions focalized upon a lady who has missed her husband and to rescue their daughters with a terrible loss too. But the momentum slightly seems to be dropping after second half, but overall the narrative skills of Baani have been very well done. The background score by Ilayaraja and the visual treat by cinematographer duo A Kumaran and SR Santhosh Kumar bestow the film with excellent visuals; especially the backdrops of Malaysia have been very well captured. Keeping the time frame of this film for less than 2 hours is a highlighting trait and editor Ramesh deserves special mention for good transiting edit cuts.

Dhansika has done a brilliant job with her performance and she has done what is required for the role. Be the desolating pains she undergoes with the missing husband and the turmoil that happens with her daughters, she is simply at her best. Others in the star-cast are mostly new faces that includes the twin daughters played by Varsha and Varnika. These young girls have come up with convincing acting, especially Varnika.

Overall, Enga Amma Rani is an emotional drama that has its own pace and momentum to keep us engaging in many places. If the screenplay was packaged with few more interesting and gripping moments, it would have be a real big scorer than what it appeals now.