Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000)

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Good movie but grossly overrated

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

I came to this film with the background of having watched and thoroughly Bride & Prejudice, and having not read Austen's Sense & Sensibility. (I did re-read P& P after watching B&P and enjoyed the contrast.) I was intrigued to see a "real" Indian movie, since Bride & Prejudice is by its own admission a blend of Bollywood and Hollywood. When I read the reviews of I Have Found It on Amazon, I was intrigued by comments about the difference between Tamil movies such as this and Bollywood musicals. With that and of course Aishwarya Rai to attract me to this film, I was expecting something good, and I was very much rewarded. I have the Kino DVD which has good subtitles. I particularly liked Major Bala--my hat's off to Mammootty for his portrayal of a man torn between love and the fear of pity. He is the steady center-point while the rest of the characters whirl tumultuously around. In addition to funny scenes, as when Manohar meets Sowmya, there are many funny comments (e.g., about the necessary elements of Tamil films) and visuals (e.g., the opening shot of a waterfall that seems so romantic but turns into a military scene). Probably a lot more if you know India and its film industry. The songs do manage to convey some of the story and not just stop the speeding train (another of Menon's comments on Tamil films), especially my favorite in which Meenu laments losing her poetry. This is a film one can enjoy over and over.

At first I didn't really know what to think and I was a bit lost, but as I got used to who was who and what was going on in the story I LOVED IT! It was a great story and the one of the ending scenes surprised me with how well the actors did. I'm not going to lie...I cried a bit. Jane Austen's stories are always good no matter how lose the adaptation. I started to like it for comedic value and then ended up loving it for serious! It is of course not trying to be just like Sense and Senseability so a few of the main story lines are out of order when it comes to the movie, but I think it worked well. The only really odd part was that on the DVD we were watching it seemed as if every line was being dubbed over. I'm sure that wasn't the case in reality, but it almost looked like I was watching a dubbed film at parts.

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.

I have seen this movie over 3 times, it has got the best cinematography work for songs.Some sheer hard work has been put in by Ravi K Chandran, 'Konjum Minakalea' is an enthrawling song, it has completely different visualisation Tamil movie has even seen! The dressing, the location, and Aishwrya looks so good in here. I guess thats the best of her I have seen so far..! Though the movie did not do well in the stands, there has been great effort put in by Rajiv Menon.The movie was not a buster, but I give it a 10 on 10. Really 'found it' interesting!