From the day I saw…

The perfect translation to the title stated would be, “Kanda Naal Mudhal”. Yes. It’s the title of the movie I recently saw. I don’t normally blog about movies a lot. Only the fittest of those, would automatically fit itself in my blogs. This movie definitely fits in my blogs cadre.

This movie produced by Prakashraj and directed by Priya (erstwhile assistant to Mani Ratnam), where the storyline offered nothing very special. It’s the usual cine stuff like boy-meets-girl and boy-girl-quarrel and boy-girl-romance and situation-as-villain and climax-as-expected. But, what makes the storyline interesting is the cast used for the story. The hero is the 5-Star Fame “Prasanna” who has done yet-again a decent enough performance justifying the role offered to him. (One can recollect the other movie he did for Prakashraj named, “Azhagiya Theeye” where he did a splendid performance to the role). The heroine is Laila and she has also tried her best to match Prasanna’s performance and she has done it with flair & maturity.

Prasanna seems to be doing the roles at ease. He neither is as charming as Surya nor as dazzling as Vikram, Yet, he is doing the job neatly and he certainly knows his limitations. Especially, when he feels for his love for her, he really creates a lot of strength to that character. One can notice that Prasanna is becoming matured and more of a character-artiste doing these kinds of roles neat enough. If given time, he can prove to be a very good actor in the course of his career.

Laila, on the other hand, showing the facial expressions better than her previous movies, has got a lot to gain from this movie. The rest of the casts are penned fair enough to support the main characters & story. For instance, Revathy, mother of Laila, has done her usual best. And, one can understand Laila & Revathy have got a lot of similarities in their looks and it looked as if they were mom & daughter in real.

The music by Yuvan Shankar Raja is scintillating. The songs are very good to hear especially the Carnatic based “Kanda Naal Mudhalaai…”.

The director has taken a lot of pains to create a neat love-story with some twists & turns and the casting has been perfect which could possibly be a launch-pad for her future as a director.

As a whole, this movie is really worth watching more than once.

All I can say, “From the day I saw….. I couldn’t resist seeing once again…”