Kodi (film)

Kodi
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Tamil	கொடி
Directed by	R. S. Durai Senthilkumar
Produced by	P. Madan (Presenter) Vetrimaaran
Written by	R. S. Durai Senthilkumar Ve. Ki. Amirtharaj (Dialogue)
Screenplay by	R. S. Durai Senthilkumar
Story by	R. S. Durai Senthilkumar
Starring	Dhanush Anupama Parameswaran Trisha Krishnan Saranya Ponvannan
Music by	Santhosh Narayanan
Cinematography	Venkatesh S
Edited by	Prakash Mabbu
Production company	Grass Root Film Company
Distributed by	Escape Artists Motion Pictures
Release date	28 October 2016 (2016-10-28)
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Box office	₹ 50 crore

Kodi (English: Flag) is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language political action thriller film written and directed by R. S. Durai Senthilkumar and produced by Vetrimaaran under his banner Grass Root Film Company. The film stars Dhanush, Anupama Parameswaran and Trisha, along with S. A. Chandrasekhar and Saranya Ponvannan. Dhanush, who produced R. S. Durai Senthilkumar's previous two films, Ethir Neechal and Kakki Sattai, played dual roles for the first time. The film's music and background score were composed by Santhosh Narayanan, the cinematography is performed by Venkatesh S. The film was simultaneously dubbed in Telugu as Dharmayogi, which released one day after the Tamil version. Upon release the film opened to mixed reviews from critics.

For Kodi (Dhanush), politics has been a part of his life ever since his birth. His father Murugan (Karunaas), a low-rung party worker, brings him up to become a politician, before setting himself on fire, protesting against a factory whose toxic mercury waste has ruined lives in the locality. Kodi’s identical twin, Anbu (also Dhanush), is a contrast to his rough-and-tough brother. He is a college lecturer and a pacifist.

Kodi is the secretary of his party’s youth wing and his adopted assistant who is more brother like to him is Bhagat Singh (Kaali Venkat). His girlfriend Rudra (Trisha), who belongs to the ruling party and has been in politics since childhood like him. Here enters egg-seller Malathi (Anupama Parameswaran), whose eggs are broken by Kodi. When she chases him, she comes across Anbu and mistakes him as Kodi. That day, she goes to Anbu"s college for some work and there she sees him and slaps him, takes away his phone and him to return her broken eggs' money and then take it. In between happens series of comical incidents. Anbu falls in love with Malathi. Malathi tells him her village pathetic condition due to the factory's mercury waste, which Anbu tells Kodi.