Annai Kaligambal

Annai Kaligambal is a 2003 Indian devotional film written and directed by Rama Narayanan. The film featured Ramya Krishnan in the title role alongside Anu Prabhakar and Livingston, while Jayanthi plays a supporting role. The film, which had music composed by Deva, released in January 2003. The film was simultaneously shot in Tamil and Kannada, with the latter titled as Shri Kalikamba, with Vinod Alva and Tennis Krishna replacing Livingston and Vennira Aadai Moorthy respectively.^[1] Kannada version was dubbed in Hindi as Maa Durga Divya Haathi and in Telugu as Allari Gajendrudu.

Annai Kaligambal/Shri Kalikamba
Directed by	Rama Narayanan
Written by	Gajendrakumar (dialogues)
Produced by	N. Radha
Starring	Ramya Krishnan Anu Prabhakar Livingston (Tamil) Vinod Alva (Kannada)
Cinematography	N. K. Viswanathan
Edited by	Raajkeerthi
Music by	Deva
Production company	Sri Thenandal Films
Release date	15 January 2003 (2003-01-15)
Running time	136 minutes
Country	India
Languages	Tamil Kannada

Cast

• Ramya Krishnan as Goddess Kaligambal (Shri Kalikamba in Kannada) and Parvathi (Dual Roles)
• Anu Prabhakar as Eshwari
• Livingston as Madhu (Tamil)
• Vinod Alva as Madhu (Kannada)
• Satya Prakash as Mandiramoorthi
• Vennira Aadai Moorthy as Nachiyappan (Tamil)
• Tennis Krishna as Nachiyappe Gowda (Kannada)
• Jayanthi as Pattamangalam Ranganayaki / Palaiyanur Neeli
• Jyothi Lakshmi as Aaravalli
• Minnal Deepa as Karpagam
• Babloo Prithiveeraj in a special appearance

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by Deva and lyrics were written by Kalidasan.^[2]

• "Omthana Namthana" - Anuradha Sriram
• "Sangu Pushpame" - Swarnalatha
• "Pachai Pachai" - Devie Neithiyar, Swarnalatha
• "Gane Gane" - Manikka Vinayagam
• "Rama Jayam" - Chorus
• "Amman Dance" - Instrumental

Reception

Chennai Online wrote "Rama Narayanan’ s films are becoming monotonous and stereotyped. You’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. The only consolation for the film-maker is that, shot on a limited budge, and patronised by the rural and the suburban folk, the film manages to recover the cost. So, who are we to grudge him!".^[3] Viggy wrote "People from Telugu and Tamil film industry are always the leaders in making spiritual movies and so is the director of Sri Kalikamba - Ramnarayan. Has done a good job in extracting their best out of all actors even from animals like elephant, monkey etc".^[1]