Cast: Girish Karnad, Navya Nair, Ganesh(Debut), Anuradha Krishnamoorthy, Rekha and others
Made by: "Vedham Pudhidhu" Kannan
Music: Bavadharini
Amirdham is an off beat movie with a good concept but the worst written screenplay does the spoilplay making it a very ordinary movie and a forgettable one.
The movie mainly is focussed on Bharathi's words: "Saadhigal Illayadi Paapa"(There are no caste differences). But instead of focussing on this, there are a number of other subplots in the movie leaving you in a confused state after 2 hours.
Navya Nair is born in an Iyengar family and falls in love with Ganesh, a non-brahmin. But Ganesh tells Navya that he has no such feelings towards her. The Perumal temple in the village falls in danger with the government planning to demolish it for the sake of fuel resource found below the hill where the temple is situated. In a mutiny to save the temple, the hero dies. The temple is saved as per Supreme court's decision but people are asked to leave the village as the fuel resouce had made the place unfit for human life. Navya joins the dead hero's parents as they leave the village, not as a daughter-in-law, but as their daughter.
Quite awkard story line, right? Yes, thats what is the drawback and the screenplay worsens the effect. In this main story line, many subplots like illegal marriage of hero's father, death of his step sister due to the vengance act of her husband, poverty of Navya's family etc etc are interleaved for no known reason.
A neat screenplay and steady flow of events would have made this an engaging fare but the above said factors make this a poor documentary. The saving graces are Navya nair's performance, the dialogues and good music by Bavadharini.
Verdict: Amirdham - Poisonous screenplay.
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