Kadhalar Dhinam Bollywood Film Details :
Kadhalar Dhinam is a 1999 Indian Bollywood Tamil romance film written and directer by Kathir. It is based on a relationship which begins through aninternet chatroom and takes a turn after the protagonist has second thoughts about the relationship. The film featured newcomer KunalSingh and Sonali Bendre in the lead roles, while Nassar, Manivannan, Goundamani and Chinni Jayanth appeared in supporting roles. Thefilm produced by A.M. Rathnam, had music composed by A. R. Rahman and cinematography by P. C. Sriram. The original film was releasedon 9 July 1999, while a partially reshot Hindi version was released on 21 April 2000.
- Directer : Kathir
- Producer : A. M. Rathnam
- Writter : Kathir
- Starring : Kunal Singh,Sonali Bendre,Nassar
- Music : A. R. Rahman
- Cinematography : Farooq
- Edited : B. Lenin,V. T. Vijayan
- Productioncompany : Sri Suriya Movies
- Distributor : Ayngaran International,Amazon Prime Video,Sun NXT
- Sound Department : Ajith Abraham George
- Visual Effects : Das Chinmay,Ramesh Karthikeyan,Srinivas Mohan,Caarthick Raju
- Genres : Drama,Musical,Romance
- Release date : 9 July 1999
- Running time : 151 minutes
- Country : India
- Language : Tamil
Kadhalar Dhinam Film Star Cast :
- Kunal as Raja
- Sonali Bendre as Roja
- Nassar as Ramachandra, Roja’s father
- Manivannan as Manager Manivannan
- Goundamani as Jack, a college professor
- Chinni Jayanth as Mandi, Raja’s friend
- Periyar Dasan as Raja’s father
- Kalpana Iyer as Raja’s mother
- Ragasudha as Roja’s friend
- Arvind Kathare as Suresh Balaji, Raja’s friend
- Kovai Senthil as Dharavi resident
- Rambha in a special appearance in the song “Oh Mariyaa”
- Lekha Washington as a girl at the computer in the “Oh Mariyaa” song (uncredited role)
- Anupam Kher as Colonel Enayathulla, the man talking with Raja at the railway station
- Johnny Lever as Jack, a college professor
- Raju Shrestha as Raju, Raja’s friend
Kadhalar Dhinam Movie Story :
Ram Chandra is a Tamilian who lives in a shanty hut in Bombay’s Dharavi, along with his mom and a younger sister. He dream is to attend school, which he does so, after his sister is loaned out to a beggar to collect alms, but she is unable to withstand hunger for long and passes away. Ram leaves home and subsequently works hard, studies, becomes rich and constructs several colleges to accommodate needy students. One such student he accommodates is a new arrival from Allahabad, Raja, and he arranges his admission in Ram Chandra College for Business Management along with full board and shelter. He also helps Raja sort out his personal problems, including his romance with a young woman he met at the Cyber Café and then at Bandra Railway Station. While Ram Chandra is busy arranging his daughter’s marriage with Rajesh Gupta, the only son of a multi-millionaire and educationist, he is quite unaware that the object of Raja’s affections is none other than Roja, his very own daughter.
Production :
Kathir, being an inveterate surfer of the cybercafes of Chennai and Bangalore, decided to make a film on what he felt the internet could develop and be used for – romance.Kathir got to visit a newly opened cyber cafe in Bangalore and the “way that picture downloaded, slowly, frame by frame, was mind-blowing. Something struck me and I rushed out to write the basic one-liner of Kadhalar Dhinam”.The film came as a successor to his 1996 blockbuster Kadhal Desam produced by K. T. Kunjumon. Since Rathnam was not aware about internet, Kathir created comedy track of Goundamani “to make it reach audiences”.
Actor Shaam was amongst the auditionees for the debut lead role, before Kunal Singh was selected after Kathir spotted him outside a Bangalore cybercafe.The Pune-based, Kunal Singh, had been in Bangalore only to bulk up his body before joining the army, but with the offer chose to make a career in films.Kathir had scouted for a non-Tamil actress to play the lead role and subsequently Sonali Bendre was signed on to play the lead role in the film, making her debut in Tamil films. Isha Koppikar had also been considered for the film, but after finalising Bendre, Kathir then recommended her to his friend K. S. Ravi to cast her in his En Swasa Kaatre (1999).For the launch of the film, the makers flew in models Lara Dutta, Laila Rouass and Rani Jeyraj to attend the launch event of the film.Rambha appeared in an item number in the film.For a song sequence in the film, red rose petals were used to cover the forecourt of the Taj Mahal in Agra.
Release :
The film initially featured a different climax where Roja dies after taking tablets, but after release, the ending was altered to give a happy ending. The Times of India gave the film a negative review stating that “Kadhalar Dhinam is typically Kadhir. It’s big, it’s beautiful and it doesn’t work.” Indolink rated it 1.5 stars, citing, “Kaadhalar Dhinam needed to show a flair for a good story, screenplay and powerful dialogues. What Kadhir ended up with was a sagging script … and a star cast whose characters lacked the necessary depth for this kind of a love story.”
Hindi version :
Director Kathir had actually reshot scenes in Hindi featuring actor Kunal and Anupam Kher to replace the Kunal-Manivannan tracks by conversing in Hindi while Johnny Lever’s scenes replaced the Goundamani tracks (Even though he appeared briefly for the “Chand Aaya Hai” song) with the same Titanic hairdo. Chinni Jayanth’s part was portrayed by Raju Shreshta in Hindi however scenes involving Kunal and Chinni in Tamil were dubbed in Hindi. Even the tracks dubbed from the Tamil version were reshot with Hindi synchronization sans for the first line of “Roja Roja”. Actor Nasser, though dubbed in Hindi, had given his Hindi synching in the song “Sawar Gayee”. Though actors Kunal and Sonali Bendre had synched their dialogues in Hindi, the rest of the film was dubbed and became a failure at box office.
Kadhalar Dhinam Movie Songs / Music :
All lyrics are written by Mehboob Kotwal; all music is composed by A. R. Rahman.
- “Chand Aaya Hai”- Kavita Krishnamurthy, Udit Narayan
- “Ae Nazneen Suno Na”- Abhijeet Bhattacharya
- “Dola Dola (Imtihan Hum Pyar Ka Deke)”- Srinivas, Swarnalatha
- “Sawar Gayee”- Udit Narayan, Srinivas
- “Oh Mariya”- Remo Fernandes, Febi Mani
- “Roja Roja”- Hariharan
“Chand Aaya Hai” Full Video Song :
- Song Name – Chand Aaya Hai
- Singer – Kavita Krishnamurthy
- Lyrics – Mehboob
- Music – A.R. Rahman
- Music Label – Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.© 1999 Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.
“Ae Nazneen Suno Na” Full Video Song :
- Song Name – Ae Nazneen Suno Na
- Singer – Abhijeet Bhattacharya
- Lyrics – Mehboob
- Music – A.R. Rahman
- Music Label – Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.© 1999 Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.
Kadhalar Dhinam Movie Review :
It’s a good romantic movie with top class music. The story set on the backdrop of online friendship or the love between the two lead characters. Remember it released in the year 1999-2000 when internet was new to the world, many of the us wasn’t much aware of it’s use or the applications in day-to-day life except few people in the metro cities. The director/writer used this cleverly as a backdrop theme to make a romantic film. The thing people may have given negative ratings to this movie is the dramatic coincidences that happens in the movie quite a few times, may be that was required as a part of the story to create a melodrama. Also the casting of supporting characters could have been better. Overall I liked the movie for its uniqueness, shall go with 6+1=7/10 rating.
This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 6.3 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 559.
Avg. Users’ Rating , from Times Of India give 5 star out of 5 Star.
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