Kodi (2016) User Reviews

Engaging Political Thriller

[aji4u4ever · 7/10 · 30 October 2016]

Movie Marathon V.3 # 196

After the debacle of Thodari and Thangamagan, Ace Actor Dhanush is back with the powerpacked performance in directorial venture of R.S. Durai Senthil Kumar.

The Story revolves around the twin brothers Kodi and Anbu, their lives, love interests and their fight against a toxic Mercury dumping factory in the township.

Dhanush's performance was top notch. He was too brilliant in both characters. Trisha, WOW, she delivered her career best performance. Dubbing was the only negative in her performance. Anupama who .debuted in Premam was the real surprise for me that she acted out in ease. Karunas, though in a small role, but was good. Sharanya, as usual a good mother character was an easy job.

The movie had some clichés but the story and screenplay was engaging. Durai did an excellent job in narrating this story. The first half was good with romance, comedy and some action and turns into a serious one in the second. Santhosh Narayanan's Background Score added spice to this flick. Songs were hummable and the background score was really apt to the play. Action Choreography fared well. Camera-work, Lighting all worked well ..

All in whole, an above average and engaging Political Thriller with mesmerizing performances from Trisha & Dhanush

My rating 7 on 10

Kodi a Review

[shekar-36355 · 6/10 · 3 January 2017]

Kodi is a different movie for dhanush, where he is playing a dual role, one as a politician and other as normal person working in college, he is seen good on screen with some good dialogues and romance in the first half of the movie in politician character ,the story turns up with a good challenging thrill from second half while he opposes the opponent his love with complex problems, good twists in story line to thrill the movie,there are no good songs and comedy track is weak, Rerecording is OK, anupama's role is OK for one pair in which she entertain in comedy on few scenes in first half , but main highlight is Trisha's performance in second half , playing a negative role awesome role for her in the movie.

Kodi (2016)

[santhosh-10290 · 8/10 · 22 March 2018]

The movie was very good with good acting by all the actors. Songs and BGM in the movie was very good. Everyone acted very well in the movie.

If one flag goes down, the other one will raise.

[Reno-Rangan · 6/10 · 14 February 2017]

A decade ago, the same pair for a film would have been a laughing stock. The main factor was the chemistry between them, which is now improved a lot. Particularly Dhanush whose stardom rose into the sky high. I am talking about Dhanuhs-Trisha combo. They were good in this film, but the nature of their roles was another advantage to work out so well. Not very romantic as if you had thought that way, but it was about politics and achieving their goals at any cost.

So this is the story of the twin brothers, who were born and raised in the political influenced family. Since their father lost his life for a good cause during political struggle, one of the brothers got interested in his father's path from the young age. The story is to reveal his ambitions and the secret romance with an opposition party member. On the other side his innocent brother having his way of life which disturbs after something went wrong. With a twist, the narration shifts to thriller in its final act till the conclusion.

The actors' presence made this film watchable. The direction was average. The writing was not good. So much cliché, that straightly borrowed from the 90s Kollywood films. Though, overall the messages were good in a few parts. But sometimes overshadowed by commercial elements like unwanted punchlines, unrealistic fights and slow- motion clips in this modern era of the film world. Particularly, as usual, the songs were the big drawback. If you are an Indian and Tamilan, then you have a chance to enjoy it, due to familiarity with the concept of the film and the culture that depicted in the film. For an outsider, the 80 per cent of the film does not make any sense. But even for the native viewers, I would say choose it carefully, because it is not a must see.

6/10

It would have been better with proper script. This movie may not bore us but if you watch first 15 min of it you will realize its a clichéd tamil entertainer.

[ridinbal · 6/10 · 28 December 2016]

"Your expectations will go down after watching first 15min automatically. Only direction slightly saved us. Dhanush in two forms and trisha's performance will be the only highlight of the movie" My rating- 2.5/5 (watch it for timepass)

Positives- 1.)Dhanush and Trisha- Both of their performance was superb and it entertained viewers 2.)Fast paced direction and it wont bore us 3.) Good message at end 4.)Cinematography and edits 5.)songs Negatives- 1.) Outdated script 2.)Cliched scenes Is it a must watch? No.

Overall- Just watch it for timepass.

My rating- 2.5/5 (watch it for timepass)

One of the best political thriller.

[solomonvarghese-26330 · 8/10 · 20 September 2018]

A political thriller which have all the fit elements with unexpected twists .Watch it and you will love it .

Kodi is an interesting political thriller which are very rare these days.Dhanush's performance,engaging screenplay and brilliant music makes this movie worth watching

[shobanchittuprolu · 7/10 · 31 October 2016]

Kodi(2016): National Award Winner,Dhanush is one of the few actors of South India who has both mass and class following.His performance is most lauded in all his movies and now he came with Kodi which is special for him as he acted in dual role for the first time.As his previous 3 movies (Maari,Thangamagan,Thodari) gave bad results,let's see whether this Kodi brought him success..

Plot: Set against a rural backdrop, the film reveals what really goes on behind the murky and manipulative game of politics.Dhanush plays a dual role -- an aggressive politician Kodi and his twin brother Anbu, who is an intelligent, meek college professor.Kodi is determined to make it big in the world of politics but his biggest opponent is his girlfriend Rudra (Trisha). Both belong to different political parties and are arch rivals but don't allow their political differences to interfere with their love life.Things begin to get messy when both are chosen as the MLA candidates for their constituency.Rudra makes public a privately shared moment with Kodi to gain political mileage. Kodi is furious and strikes back.Their secret relationship is now exposed and both are in trouble with their party leaders.Due to unexpected circumstances ,Anbu gets involved in this who is in love with Malathi (Anupama). Why is Anbu involved in this political conspiracy and who won the elections??Is it Kodi or Rudra??

Plus Points: 1)Performances: If Dhanush stars in a movie,we need not to specially mention about his performance.As usually Dhanush is the major highlight of the movie with his energetic performance.The way he showcases superb variations in both his characters is just amazing.Trisha as a heartless power-hungry politician is decent.Anupama is cute and gave good performance.

2)Screenplay and Direction: Kodi has engaging screenplay through out the movie.Director has succeeded in making an interest political thriller without missing commercial elements.Durai Senthil must be appreciated for bringing a good political thriller in these days.

3)Music: Santhosh Narayan songs are brilliant but lyrics are very bad.Listen to them in Tamil,you will love it.Kodi theme,El Suzhali are chart busters.Background Score is brilliant..

Minus Points: 1)Climax: Climax is big letdown for this movie.It should have ended thrilling but director ended it abruptly in regular format.

2)Lyrics: A I have said earlier,Lyrics are terrible which may affect the songs.

So,Kodi is an interesting political thriller which are very rare these days.Dhanush's performance,engaging screenplay and brilliant music makes this movie worth watching

My rating 7.25/10

Amazing is an under statement

[niranjanthevaliant · 10/10 · 30 December 2016]

Just watch this. I wish I could explain in Tamil. Great explanation of political Tangles. Great Acting by all. Great Acting by Dhanush.(Needs separate mention) Great emotions. Good love. Great depiction of human nature and how it gets badly influenced by material needs and pursuit of false fame. Excellent BGM and songs. Arguably best Tamil movie of 2016. Nowadays quality of these movies is too good. People are actually starting to think more. You could see in a scene, where the use of wits to mesmerize people is badly ridiculed and focuses on what really matters when they go up on stage to say anything. Its not about how people give influential speeches, its about what they do.

A worth watch massy political thriller

[gmrocketman · 7/10 · 23 July 2017]

The film is a political thriller with engaging plot with Dhanush playing dual roles as Kodi(the titular character) and his twin brother Anbu. The performance of both leading pair Dhanush and Trisha Krishnan are a worth watch and there screen presence is awesome. While it gives a good watch for Dhanush's role, Trisha Krishnan's role as the antagonist is a super. The problem is that a script of this worth needed a better director. R.S.Senthilkumar(the director) made the movie more commercial and massy. Director like Anurag Kashyap("Gangs of Wasseypur" fame) , Prakash Jha("Raajneeti" fame) , Gautham Menon("kakha kakha" ,"yennai arindhal" fame), Pa.Ranjith("Madras" , "Kabali" fame) or Karthik Subbaraj("Jigarthanda" fame) would have made a better product out of this script. If you ignore the massy substances from the movie.. It is a good movie to enlight upon the mercury(the chemical substance) problem with good twists and turns in a political game. Watch out for Trisha krishnan especially 😉

Usual revenge model political story with something fresh

[arjun-tkalathil · 5/10 · 27 January 2020]

An average attempt.The movie is just an entertainer with some romance,family, comedy and tragedy.Eventhough, i didnt like this film!

Unexpectedly Good

[aarthika-09925 · 9/10 · 5 March 2021]

So going into this film I had no expectations, since I've heard a bunch of mixed reviews for it. Also I thought it would be filled with cliches, but I liked how the comedy in this at the start was not corny but actually funny. Also with most dual role films, there are not a-lot of discernible differences between the different characters played by the same person in tamil movies, but here Dhanush did a really good job playing both a mild-mannered professor and Kodi, the politician. Also Trisha did a great job. That said, there are a few cliches, but it was still way better than I thought it would be. This a really good political thriller and felt very fast paced! The songs were really good too.

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[personalacc-87247 · 7/10 · 30 August 2021]

Dhanush and Trisha nailed it!

Good Music by SANA.

Another Massy for DHANUSH Fans !!!

[pranavadvaith · 10/10 · 29 October 2016]

A Political drama set in village background with good dose of commercial elements. Dhanush never done this kind of role previously people see a new angle in Dhanush acting in this movie. Santosh Narayan music and background scores are plus points in this movie.Director R.S. Durai Senthilkumar had done a good job in this movie he never made audience feel boring in his previous movies Ethir Neechal and Kaaki Sattai too . There are no scenes in this movie to make audience dizzy. Kodi surely is a block buster of this Deepawali. As a fan of Dhanush i feel satisfied for this stuff in this movie. I was much dissatisfied with his previous releases but Kodi is a relief from both of these movies.