Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000)

An Indian adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" focusing on two sisters of opposing temperaments.

Director:

Rajiv Menon

Writers:

Rajiv Menon, Sujatha (dialogue: Tamil version)

Stars:

Ajith Kumar, Tabu, Mammootty

4 wins.

Cast

Credited cast:
Ajith Kumar	...	Manohar
Tabu	...	Sowmya
Mammootty	...	Captain Bala
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan	...	Meenakshi (as Aishwarya Rai)
Abbas	...	Srikanth
Srividya	...	Mahalakshmi
Shamili
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pooja Batra	...	Nandini Varma
Chandrakala
Arvind Krishna	...	(as Aravind Krishna)
Lakshmi	...	(as S.N. Lakshmi)
Manivannan	...	Bala's Friend
Dino Morea	...	Vinod
Unnikrishnan Nampoothiri
Raghuvaran	...	Sowmya's Boss

Storyline

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is transplanted to contemporary Tamil-speaking India. Serious elder sister Sowmya falls in love with aspiring film director Manohar. Passionate younger sister Meenakshi is admired from afar by wounded commando Captain Bala, but her young heart is set on Srikanth, a businessman who shares her fondness for poetry. More complications arise when the sisters' grandfather passes away, and they loose their place in the family home.

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Plot Keywords:

inheritance | age difference | marriage proposal | sister sister relationship | foreign language adaptation | 

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Manju Warrier and Soundarya were offered the role of Meenakshi, in that order, before Aishwarya Rai entered the film.

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Connections

Referenced in Vijay Superum Pournamiyum (2019)

User Reviews

excellent, but...

I liked this movie a lot - the characters were engrossing & the music wonderful. But.. and it's a big one, the DVD version that I saw is horribly subtitled. The sentence structure is garbled, words are misspelled and worst of all the subtitles flash by on the screen and sometimes cannot be read even with the speed set at slow plus often times they are way behind the action on the screen. It's really a shame because it is a contemporary & culturally interesting adaptation of Sense & Sensibilty if you can see your way clear of the subtitles. This is actually one time I would have preferred a dubbed version. Perhaps with the success of Bride and Prejudice someone will see fit to release this movie with the subtitles it deserves.

Details

Official Sites:

kandukondain.com [India] (English)

Country:

India

Language:

Tamil

Release Date:

5 May 2000 (India)

Also Known As:

I Have Found It

Filming Locations:

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sri Surya Films, V. Creations

Technical Specs

Runtime:

151 min

Sound Mix:

DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1