Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000)

Regisseur:

Rajiv Menon

Drehbuchautoren:

Rajiv Menon (writer)
Sujatha (dialogue: Tamil version)

Premierendatum:

4. Mai 2000 (India)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

An Indian adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility." |

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Filmpreise:

1 win

Nutzerkommentare:

Engaging characters, witty screenplay, great music....

Besetzung

Mammootty	...	Captain Bala
Ajith	...	Manohar
Tabu	...	Sowmya
Aishwarya Rai	...	Meenakshi
Abbas	...	Srikanth
Srividya
Shamili
übrige Besetzung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge:
Pooja Batra	...	Nandini (actress)
Chandrakala
S.N. Lakshmi
Manivannan
Dino Morea	...	Vinod
Unnikrishnan Nampoothiri
Raghuvaran
Anitha Rathnam
Nizhalgal Ravi
Samir Sarkar	...	Office executive
Senthil
Sreeja
Malaysia Vasudevan

Alternativ:

I Have Found It (International: English title)
Priyuraalu Pilichindi (India: Telugu title) (dubbed version)

Länge:

151 Min

Produktionsland:

India

Sprache:

Tamil | Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS

Altersfreigabe:

India:U

Drehorte:

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Firma:

Sri Surya Films

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Engaging characters, witty screenplay, great music....

I came to this film with the background of having watched and thoroughly Bride & Prejudice, and having not read Austen's Sense & Sensibility. (I did re-read P& P after watching B&P and enjoyed the contrast.) I was intrigued to see a "real" Indian movie, since Bride & Prejudice is by its own admission a blend of Bollywood and Hollywood. When I read the reviews of I Have Found It on Amazon, I was intrigued by comments about the difference between Tamil movies such as this and Bollywood musicals. With that and of course Aishwarya Rai to attract me to this film, I was expecting something good, and I was very much rewarded. I have the Kino DVD which has good subtitles. I particularly liked Major Bala--my hat's off to Mammootty for his portrayal of a man torn between love and the fear of pity. He is the steady center-point while the rest of the characters whirl tumultuously around. In addition to funny scenes, as when Manohar meets Sowmya, there are many funny comments (e.g., about the necessary elements of Tamil films) and visuals (e.g., the opening shot of a waterfall that seems so romantic but turns into a military scene). Probably a lot more if you know India and its film industry. The songs do manage to convey some of the story and not just stop the speeding train (another of Menon's comments on Tamil films), especially my favorite in which Meenu laments losing her poetry. This is a film one can enjoy over and over.