Kanden Kaathalai (2009)




This one more example to show how the task of remaking of movie is difficult.Kanden Kathalai has the perfect cast and team to remake the highly loved Jab We Met.Jab We met was enjoyed for many factors like the crazy attitude of Kareena ,The silence of Shahid and ofcourse this movie came when the duo ended their real life relationship.Kanden Kathalai had tried its level best to match the expectation but some where the magic of Jab We met was missing.

Sakthi an industrialist ,heart broken meets Anjali a bit of cranky and bit of realistic girl in a train journey,lots of twirls we end up at Theni at Anjali’s house.Her parents arrange for Engagement between Anjali and Mokka Rasu.Anjali runs away with Sakthi to meet her boy friend Gautham.Sakthi returns back to Chennai while Anjali is let down by Gautham.Sakthi goes in search of Anjali to take her back to Theni .

Kanden Kathalai has its moments of reality and good aspect of it is the change in the script which has helped the movie.KK works for Tamannah and Santhanam.Theni is a refreshing aspect for the movie though we didn’t get the real feel like the Mumbai Patinda travel .Tamannah is witty,cranky,realistic.She had almost acted in every movie like the one in KK.We don’t see Karishma in Tamannah.But sadly we weren’t able to stop comparing Bharath and Sahid. Confidence of Bharath is drastically missing which has let down this movie in many parts.Its mainly because of the dialogues of the movie which sounds histrionic ,some of the important parts of Bharath were just translated from Hindi which didn’t work out.

The real hero of the movie is Mokka Rasu ! This is one big movie for the comedian after Siva Manasula Sakthi ,he has given a great touch to the comedy track.Though it might look daft comedies but if you see there are some characters in real life around us which would resemble Santhanam .R.Kannan was highly impressive with Jeyam Kondan one of the finest movies of last year ,I loved it since it was a typical Tamil movie with stable emotional contents.Kanden Kathalai was a perfect stage for him to show his skills ,but Kannan relied so much on the Chennai – Theni journey which was infact abstracted exactly from the Hindi version.The first half of the movie didn’t work out much as it was expected.This scenes should have been supported by good dialogues but Pattukottai Prabakar dialogues hears as just translation.

We enjoy the movie when we reach Theni thanks for Mokka Rasu and some good sequences which follow .Its not a bad remake but some aspects didn’t help as it was supposed to be.

Rating : **1/2

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அஸ்லம் கான் said…
.We don’t see Karishma in Tamannah.... Karisham as in 'Charisma'or its Kareena :)
December 7, 2009 at 12:45 AM
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