Angaadi Theru

“Angaadi Theru” - another low budget tamil movie which made a huge success in box office, written and directed by national award winner director Vasanthabalan (Veyil fame).
The movie has a strong screenplay and a perfect direction, even though the story is very simple and many of sequence are earlier seen in some Tamil movie, still its been well blended to entertain the audiences. It shows the painful life of the poor remote village youngsters who come to Chennai and works for low salaries in big shops as sales person. The movie goes behind Jyothi Lingam (Mahesh), a 12th standard school topper, who is forced to come to Chennai from his small village in Tirunelveli for himself and for his family (mother and 2 sisters) livelihood, due to sudden death of his father in an accident.
He comes to Chennai with his friend Marimuthu (Pandi) to join as a sales guy in a big garment shop, Senthil Murugan Stores run by a big Anachi, in Ranganathan street, T.Nagar – Chennai.
Here his life was miserable, the staffs were very much ill treated by the management (poor accommodation, food, and heavy labor work). It seems to be like some jail and if anybody questions the management they will be thrown out of job. Since job is very much important for all the guys there, everyone remain quite and listen to the management, the lady staff too were very much ill treated. The hard reality is shown. From the heavily crowded living area and the long and hard working hours to the strict, abusive and molesting floor supervisors.
Among all these sufferings the only happiness for Lingam was Kani (Anjali), she too works as a sales girl there; she has a sister who works as a maiden in a Brahmin’s house. Lingam falls in love with Anjali and within the huge labor work their love keep on moving, director has well used the shop as the background of the movie without boring the audience.
The movie progresses forward showing the lead pair’s lives, difficulties they face and then end with a real touching and inspirational climax. The director has maintained that balance beautifully.

One day Lingam questioned one of the manager for ill treating Anjali, then both of them has to face many miserable situation, they were thrown out of the job, the management made a false theft case on them, etc, but both of them still managed to survive, but sometime fate is more cruel, they met with a road accident, what happen to them later, and how they managed to survive, turns to be the climax for the movie!!.
Along with the main story the director had shown the life of many other people like roadside sales people, cleaners, etc. The dialogues and scenes are well written that they touch the audience mind.



Realistically shot at the Ranganathan street would be a tough task during the peak time. The camera man does deserve a huge applause for showing Ranganathan Street as it is.
The real appreciation would go to Anjali (Kani). She has done a superb job from the bubbly naughty girl to the face she changes the expression soon after getting trashed by the supervisor, and attending the customer with a smile in her face. She does a job which is very close to reality. Mahesh as Jothilingam has done a decent job and supported Anjali throughout the film.

The music by Vijay Antony and Prakash Kumar are excellent.

The songs are all very well written with real good lyrics. Vasanthabalan has picked the best from his 2 music directors.

“aval appadi ondrum azhagillai
avalukku yaarum yinai illai
Aval appadi ondrum color illai
Aanaal athu oru kurai illai…..

Aval perithaai ondrum padikka villai
Avalai padithen mudikavillai
Aval uduthum udaigal pidikavillai
Irunthum gavanikka marakka villai”


Movie Casts : Mahesh, Anjali, A.Venkatesh, Pandi, Sneha (Guest appearance).
Movie is a really good one to be watched.