Kana Kandaen
Poster
Directed by	K. V. Anand
Written by	Subha (Dialogues)
Screenplay by	K. V. Anand
Story by	Subha
Produced by	P. L. Thenappan
Starring	Srikanth Prithviraj Gopika Vivek
Cinematography	Soundarrajan
Edited by	V. T. Vijayan
Music by	Vidyasagar
Production company	Rajalakshmi Films International
Release date	13 May 2005 (2005-05-13)
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Kana Kandaen (transl. I had a dream) is a 2005 Indian Tamil-language thriller film directed by K. V. Anand in his directorial debut, and produced by P. L. Thenappan. The film stars Srikanth, Prithviraj, Gopika, and Vivek. The music was composed by Vidyasagar with cinematography by Soundarrajan and editing by V. T. Vijayan. It was dubbed into Hindi as Muqabala, Telugu as Karthavyam, and Malayalam as Kana Kandaen. The film released on 13 May 2005.

The film marks Prithviraj's Tamil debut, and he played the antagonist. The title of this film is based on a song from Parthiban Kanavu (2003).

Plot

Bhaskar and Archana are childhood friends who grew up in the same village. Bhaskar receives a marriage invitation card from Archana. Only then does he realizes his love for her, but he still decides to attend the marriage. The day before the marriage, Archana finds out that her fiancé is not a good man and decides to call off the wedding. Her mother helps her escape with Bhaskar. The couple begins to live in a small house owned by Sivaramakrishnan. Bhaskar, a research scholar in chemistry, succeeds in coming out with a prototype of a desalination plant which he wants to give to the government and solve a water crisis. He gets discouraged by the government authorities and State Minister. Because of this, he decides to set up his own desalination plant based on the methods of his research. Along with Archana, he runs from pillar to post for a loan. Bhaskar is hesitant to express his love towards Archana as she may misinterpret his intentions for helping her, but she soon realizes his love for her.

Madhan is a college mate of Archana. He gets acquainted with their family. Coming to know of their troubles, the rich Madhan volunteers to help them and lends money. However, Madhan is a '"business consultant" who lends money to companies, corporates, and individuals at exorbitant rates of interest and uses his might to recover them. In Bhaskar's case, he fakes the bond papers that Bhaskar has signed and begins to trouble them, demanding his money back and threatening to take over Bhaskar's research works with which he aspires to make a huge sum. When everything goes out of hand for Madhan, he sets a bomb in Bhaskar's research plant, but Bhaskar thwarts the plan. The video records that Bhaskar had recovered earlier from Madhan's office showing his cruel side was released to the press, and an arrest warrant was issued for him. The film ends with Bhaskar getting recognized for his research work, while Madhan was shown roaming aimlessly around like a mentally affected person.

Cast

• Srikanth as Bhaskar
• Prithviraj as Madhan
• Gopika as Archana
  • Swetha Bharathi as Young Archana
• Vivek as Sivaramakrishnan
• Amitha Rajan as Vasantha Madam
• Vanitha Krishnachandran as Archana's mother
• Mayoori as Madhan's fake wife
• Singamuthu
• Linda Arsenio as item number

Production

Noted cinematographer K. V. Anand made his directorial debut with this film.^[1] Malayalam actor Prithviraj was signed to make his Tamil debut with this film. He portrays the antagonist.^[2]

Soundtrack

The music is composed by Vidyasagar and lyrics were written by Vairamuthu.

Release

Rediff gave the film a favourable review and wrote that "On the whole, K. V. Anand has made a very good romantic thriller".^[3][4][5]

Legacy

Following his successful portrayal of an antagonist in this film, Prithviraj received many offers to play villain roles in Tamil cinema but he rejected them citing his interest to play hero roles.^[6] He later went on to portray negative roles in Raavanan (2010) and Kaaviya Thalaivan (2014).^[2][7]

References

External links

• Kana Kandaen at IMDb