Hear, hear.
Here’s our take on the dramatis personae of Kandukondein Kandukondein.
* Aishwarya Rai is mostly graceless.
* Ajith is generally passionless.
* Abbas is absolutely expressionless.
* Tabu, our inamorata, is divinely peerless. 
* Mamooty is typically matchless.
Despite the reckless and habitual vandalism of the Ash-Ajith-Abbas troika on the movie sets, we’d still consider Kandukondein Kandukondein a decent film.
Kandukondein Kandukondein owes its charm primarily to its passable adaptation of Jane Austen’s early 19th century novel Sense and Sensibility (1811) and, to a lesser extent, to director Rajiv Menon’s deft hand at the tiller.
Say what you will, in a crass, class-less Tamil movie film industry this Menon fella shows some class and stands tall.
Movie buffs will recollect Rajiv Menon as the director of the Arvind Swamy-Kajol Mukerji hit Minsara Kanavu and the man behind the camera in Bombay.
Hewing largely to the story in the English novel, Kandukondein Kandukondein traces the fall into straitened circumstances of a widow and her three young daughters.
And follows the gambols in Cupid’s vineyard of the two older daughters as they move from the calm of their Poongudi village to the harsh environs of Chennai and navigate the harsh circumstances of city life and the hard ruts of their love lives. Continue reading »
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