Annai

<p>A wealthy widow named Kanagamahalakshmi, who loses her husband and unborn child in a car crash, opts to look after an orphan child for a period of one month every year. Her decision operates smoothly for a few years. However, when the child, Anjali, returns to the house for a third year, problems begin to arise. She expresses her distaste at the various deficiencies of Kanagamahalakshmi’s household, including her foster parent herself. How Anjali makes the members in the house behave properly forms the rest of the story. The film was shot on a budget of 33 lakh rupees within 14 days. The music was composed by . Krishna Chidambaram of criticised the director for treating the theme of adoption half-heartedly. S. R. Ashok Kumar of appreciated Kannan’s cinematography, the dialogues by Kavitha Bharathi and Rajprabhu, and Manobala’s writing and direction, but felt Dhina’s music “at times drifts away” from the main story.</p>