posted April 14, 2002 10:47 PM            

Kannathil Muthamittaaale(A KISS IN THE CHEEK):

Thiruchelvan (Madhavan), an engineer, is also a well-known Tamil writer. Happily married to Indira (Simran) he has three children, Amutha (Keerthana), Vinay and Akhil.

The couple breaks the news to Amutha on her 9th birthday that she is an adopted child. They explain to their daughter that she was adopted from the Red Cross in Rameswaram, where her mother had abandoned her soon after birth.

Thiruchelvan, a young writer at that time, wrote a short story on this child and decides along with his neighbour and lover Indira, to adopt the little girl. They convince her that she is the apple of their eye, but the girl sets out twice in search of her biological mother.

On knowing Amutha’s intense desire to meet her mother, the couple decides to go with her to the jungles of Mankulam in Sri Lanka. All that they know is that her mother’s name is Shyama (Nandita Das).

On their arrival they find that Mankulam is being carpet bombed by the Sri Lankan Army. However, they continue their search with a help of a Sinhala Doctor Friend that finally leads them to her mother, who is a tough, hardcore LTTE tigress who is initially reluctant to meet her daughter. But in a stunning climax the mother melts and advices her daughter to go back with her foster parents and she would join her after the Tamils are liberated.

Dil Dil Dil Dil Dil Dil.....Dil Dil Dil Dil Dil Dil.....Kannathil Muthamittaaale, Kannathil Muthamittaaale.

Oru Thevan Thantha Kartre...Kannathil Muthamittaaale, Kannathil Muthamittaaale,

HIT SONG FROM THIS MOVIE

posted April 14, 2002 10:58 PM            

I am from Malaysia.Excellent movie. Great performance from all in the movie.
-Rajan

I saw the movie today. I have not been let down. The realism is really the highlight to me. I hope the Tamil Audience rises to sustain such quality work.Excellent Job by the team !!!-Vijay

Hi Uncle Mani,
Well done, you've given something superb after a lonng break, nice story and really touching, Well done to Thiruchelvan, Indira, Amutha, Vinay and Akilan the cute, u guyz acted so natural, not to forget D. Ganesan & Prakash Raj.

Vazhakam Pol, Unbeatable Annan Rehman ... songs were superbbbbb, Velai Pookal & Oru theiivam thanthe poove... Well Done

Thanks to crew members too.... for the master piece !!!-Selva

Its's a very beautiful movie. Made my tears drop. I just can't stop thinking about the orphan out site there, who wants at least one time to see their real mothers. Thank Q to Mr. Mani Ratnam, Maddy, Simran Keertana and all the crew. For refelecting the feelings naturally...-Citra

dear mani sir,i'm kavya.i'm 16yrs old.i have seen ur movie "Kannathil Muthamittal".i have really been impressed by the taking.every part of movie was good.music is a highlight and also camera was good.
awaiting for your next movie.........-kavya.

Kannathil muthamittal is very nice & superb movie mathavan&simran acted very nicely a.r.rehman music is super - Mani Ratnam is Great!!!-Kavitha

Thanks for pointing out our problem, Its finely taken one movie i have ever seen...
-Harithas, from Canada

A must see Website & film, Great work by the Team...-Prem, Chennai

HI,I WATCHED THE MOVIE 1ST SHOW. IT WAS FABULOUS.KEERTHANA IS VERY CUTE, EXCELLENT DIRECTION, I AM KEEP WATCHING THIS MOVIE..... ALL THE BEST FOR IT'S SUCCESS....
-Raghu

This film is very very super and excelent
- JayaLakshmi

I live in the US(Boston). The movie is good. Excellent direction.The Songs are nice. Photography is Excellent. If possible, show this email to all who contributed in making the film - This is the first award from a true audience.

I'm sure, this film is all set for Silver Jubilee. -Balagee

Very nice family story with true exposure of love.Keerthana is excellent. Different way of story narration. -Vijayasri

2002 naan partha miga sirantha kudumba kaviyam ,universal director Maniratnathin "kannathil mutha mittal".
-Devan

One of the mile stone of Manirathnam's Movie. One more diamond to his crown.
-Sujith

There is no question abt the quality of the movie beacuse , it s a manirathnam's film. wow what a great movie it is , full of emotions and touchings... the music... ar. rahman socred well and the photography and direction dialogues especially keerthana, simaran's actiing was so good simran showed her another face and maddy is also good he proved is not only a chocolate hero. totaly superb Experience -Hema

Highly impressive!!!!
manirathnam moviena kekkanuma??everythings gotta be gud !!!!

should be gu d cant wait to see it again!!
-Anu

Only one thing to say about the film - "simply superb"
Rahman you are great and Mani you are the best.
- Jobby Cherian

posted April 14, 2002 11:02 PM            

R. Madhavan has done something most of the romantic heroes of yesteryear would have hesitated to do – mellow down to play a role of dignity sans glamour, emotions sans over-action. His essay ensures, especially towards the end, that the movie doesn’t
slip into the ‘Sivaji Ganesan’ genre of melodrama which is very much a danger, if only because of the beauty of the soft storyline. Simran, playing his expressive wife, has been proving her critics wrong for a long time now. she is no more the glamour doll she started out as. She was not the perfect anti-thesis for Madhavan but she need’nt have been. The kid took care of it all. Keerthana, actor-director Parthiban’s daughter, has done everything possible to bag a national award for her performance in this film.

The storyline is not wafer-thin and hence requires some attentive dwelling-upon. The happy life of nine-year old Amudha is rudely jolted by the revelation made by her father that she is an adopted child. She finds out that her real mother (the marvellous Nandita Das) left her at a refugee camp in Rameshwaram, where she had fled to from Sri Lanka because of the war. She wishes to go to Sri Lanka and trace her real mother, a suggestion that gains favour with the parents after she twice tries to run away from the house.

The travails and tribulations that take hold of them in Sri Lanka ensures that finding the real mother is not going to be easy. How the story ends is for the viewers to watch on screen and for me to not reveal. The climax has one in tears and absolutely so; who wouldn’t be moved by Nandita Das, Simran, Madhavan and the child, Keerthana, acting with such lovely grace. Kamal Hassan’s ‘Mahanadi’ and Mani Rathnam’s very own ‘Bombay’, both of which were equally fabulous movies, tended towards the unreal or the melodramatic right at the end. Kannathil Muthamittal, though, has been carefully carved by the ace sculptor Sreekar Prasad, who with his brilliant editing, ensures that the movie never slackens in pace or slips into melodrama.

The lyricist for the songs in the movie, Vairamuthu, can be lauded for his refreshingly different and pleasantly jarring lines, especially in the title song. The poet in him has at last showed itself to exist after quite a gap. If his lines were great, the music by A.R. Rahman left one stunned. The background music for the entire film has been an exercise steeped in excellence. The Mani Ratnam-Rahman combo works out very well yet again.

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posted April 18, 2002 12:04 PM            

I am asking you the same question? Why are you thinking about PORN all the time? What does "kannathilmuthamittal" movie gotto do with PORN? May be if you put all of your energy into building Toilets in Tamil Nadu, then after all, no one will have to walk around Chennai NAKE looking for a place to SHIT. If you give your people a chance to SIT inside a closed toilet and do their SHIT, it would take your mind OFF PONO too.

posted April 18, 2002 12:17 PM            

well I am not the one who was caught red handed in this forum posting Porn under different user names. So there is no point in asking me that question.
BTW: Why do you think I am from Tamil Nadu. My user name does not have any connection with the political party DMK.