Kandukondain Kandukondain

• Mammootty Bala
• Aishwarya Rai: Meenakshi
• Taboo: Sowmya
• Ajith: Manohar
• Abbas: Srikanth

Kandukondain Kandukondain (Tamil: கண்டுகொண்டேன் கண்டுகொண்டேன் ). 's A Tamil movie from 2000 directed by Rajiv Menon. The film was also dubbed in Telugu ( under the title Priyuraalu Pilichindi ). The film transfers the plot of the novel Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen in the India of today. However, this is not mentioned in the credits and is also limited only to the constellation of sometimes conflicting characters and their ( romantic ) relationships.

Action

The film handles the classic story of a widowed mother and her three daughters in the context of modern India. Sowmya and Meenakshi (also known as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood ) are mature and attractive, Kamla (aka Margaret Dashwood ) is still in school. They live with her ​​sick grandfather in his large country house. This is killed before he can even change according to his will his desire. The legacy thus falls entirely to his son Sam and his wicked wife. The four women who have for years maintained the grandfather / father will be thrown out by Sam and his wife from their homes and are forced to Madras to draw.

Shortly before this blow both older sisters had fallen in love: the more pragmatic Sowmya in Manohar, an aspiring filmmaker who has just returned from America and wants to make a name in the Tamil film; the romantic, dreamy Meenakshi in Srikanth, a young businessman who is involved in some of the dubious speculations.

Meenakshi has to the disability Major Bala, who is a friend of the family, another admirer. Bala was commanding officer in the Indian Army. In the first scene shows how he lost his leg in an explosion. He drinks too much, and pitied himself Meenakshi feels with him and persuaded him to quit drinking, by promising, then to learn the Tampura and sing.

After she moved to Chennai, Sowmya only gets a job as a telephone operator, even though she is a skilled computer programmer. Major support Meenakshi Bala going to go to music school. Manohar delves into the production of his film and Sowmya thinks he has forgotten it. Therefore, they accepted, as it is conveyed to the programmer, a job in America. Meenakshis musical career is doing well, but she finds out that Srikanth marries another, in order to solve his financial problems. Dissolved she wanders in the monsoon through a flooded street and falls into a drainage stack from which she is rescued by Bala. Slowly she realizes her love for Bala, he thinks, however, that she pitied him because of his disability.

Nevertheless, there is a happy ending: Manohars film is a great success and he can Sowmya convince you that he still loves her and Bala recognizes that Meenakshi does not love him out of pity, but because " his inner beauty " looks.

Music

The film score was composed by A. R. Rahman. The choreography is by Farah Khan, Brinda and Raju Sundaram, the music lyrics of Vairamuthu.

Pieces

• " Yenna Solla Pogirai " sung by Shankar Mahadevan
• " Smaiyai Smaiyai " sung by Devan, Clinton Cerejo Dominique Cerejo and
• " Kanamoochchi " sung by KS Chitra and KJ Yesudas
• " Suttum Vizhi " sung by Hariharan
• " Konjum Mainakkale " Sadhana Sargam sung by
• " Kandukondain Kandukondain " sung by Hariharan and Mahalakshmi Iyer
• " Yengae Enathu Kavithai " sung by KS Chitra and Srinivas

Reviews

" Rajiv Menon 's Kandukondain Kandukondain second directorial venture, premiered on May 4th at Devi theater in Chennai, Succeeds in Both style and substance. Engrossing stuff and for the most part well told. "

" Rajiv Menon's second directorial effort, Kandukondain Kandukondain, which premiered on May 4 at Devi theater in Chennai, in style and content is a success. Addictive topic and well written for the most part. "

" Rajeev Menon 's new movie Assumes and presents Itself as being utterly self-confident of its content and screenplay, so much so did we can feel the movie ripping apart at its seams, about a half an hour into its initial narration. Yet Kandukondain Seems to have its audience in its grip for a reason or two: impeccable acting by Mammooty, Tabu & Ajeethkumar ( in portions), a true climax to the heart [ ... ] ARRahman and working long hours to perfect some tunes whichwill stay in memory, at least for a short while. "

" Rajeev Menon [ Rajiv Menon ] assumed new movie and presents so much a perfect self-confidence concerning its content and script that we can feel the film is bursting at the seams in the first half hour of narrative flow. Nevertheless Kandukondain captivates his audience of one or two reasons: Impeccable acting of Mammooty, Tabu & Ajeethkumar [ Ajith ] worked ( in parts ), a walking to heart culmination [ ... ] and AR Rahman, the long hours on perfecting some tunes has to remain in the memory -. , at least for a short while "

Awards

Shankar Mahadevan won the 2001 Silver Lotus Award for the best playback singer for the song " Yenna Solla Pogirai ".