Amma Kanakku is an upcoming Tamil drama film written and directed by Ashwini Iyer Tiwari. A remake of the 2016 Hindi film Nil Battey Sannata, the film stars Amala Paul, Revathi and Samuthirakani in the lead roles.
Amma Kanakku’ is the Tamil remake of Hindi film ‘Nil Battey Sannata’ and it has been produced by Dhanush and Anand.L.Rai. After highly acclaimed, award winning films like ‘Kaaka Muttai’ and ‘Visaranai’ this is another attempt from Dhanush’s Wunderbar Films to give a realistic close to life film, which wins the heart with its honest and touching portrayal of a single mother’ s struggles to achieve her dream about her daughter’s future.
Shanthi (Amala Paul) is a young widow who works as a maid in a Doctor’s (Revathy) house and also does other menial jobs to educate her daughter Abhi (Yuvasri) who is in tenth grade. Her only dream in life is to see Abhi complete higher studies and achieve big in life. But Abhi in turn is highly disinterested in studies as she is convinced that her mother could not afford the cost of higher studies and says that she will become a servant maid like her mother. The rest of the film deals with the struggles of Shanthi to make her daughter understand the importance of education and achieve a successful career.
Ashwini Iyer Tiwari, the director of the original has helmed the Tamil remake also. The debutante with the story written by Nitesh Tiwari and Tamil dialogues by director Subramaniam Siva, has succeeded in presenting a heartwarming account of a relationship between young widowed mother and her daughter and the struggles of a lower middle class single woman to ensure a better lifestyle and a good future at least for the next generation of her family