I am a part of our Technical Education system and had always spent enormous time studying the ups and downs of our educational system. In this context, I was struck upon by “Kana Kanden” which wonderfully revealed two fine flaws of our education system. Let me take the next two paragraphs to briefly discuss these two aspects
I saw many people moved by the plight of Bhaskar (Srikkanth) to convince the bureaucrats and the simpletons about his desalination idea and to transform the same into reality. In today’ reality, our young scientists are treated only shabbier. If they are mentally strong to avoid commercialization and try for Government adoption, they would end up as mere lunatics. A question may arise what bothers the funding of such indigenous ideas and people? The answer is Basic Science was, is and (pray not) will be a profitable professional option in our country. Research in Basic Science (Maths, Physics and Chemistry) lacks in genuine people and finance. With the cream of our country opting for professional courses in applied science (engineering/medicine), basic science does not get good students, good money and therefore good attention. If India has produced only three Nobel winners in 57 years, that is the obvious reason. Our education system does not give Basic Science due consideration.
Almost all the viewers were fascinated by Madhan (Prithviraj)’s character. They were smitten over by his absolutely brilliant etiquette, artistic taste in things, his highly fluent English, his classy behaviour, quick reactivity and adoption of state of the art technologies. Any B school teacher will be proud of a student of Madhan’s caliber. However his single trait of placing money above anything else detonates the whole character (from the audience viewpoint). I will attribute this to our education system as well. We are insistent to pass knowledge and information to the students and never spare a thought to pass those values and ethics. Teachers do not realize their need to be a role model. We are consistently offering students who are strong on knowledge and weak on values. To put it better, we don’t have any authorized mechanism to account for passing the values. This is yet another major drawback of our system.
Moving into the movie, “Kana Kanden” was a good movie by K.V.Anand. After P.C.Sreeram(Meera), Jeeva(12 B) and Thangar Bachaan (Solla Marantha Kathai), K.V.Anand proves the tradition that ace cameramen make good directorial debuts. We have to agree with Ravi.K.Chandran who quoted “We cameramen carry the director’s dreams and can any day establish ourselves as directors”. We have to specially appreciate his different and interesting portrayal of the lead pair making love for the first time.
Subha(Suresh and Bala) deserve big credit for their gripping and intriguing storyline. It speaks brilliantly of the twin problems of Water scarcity and Kandhu Vadhhi
Prithviraj deserves lavish praise for his absolute striking performance. He would be yet another villain loved by all. To perform with such ease a character that was developed for Aravindswamy/Prakashraj speaks volumes of Prithviraj’s acting capability.
Sunderrajan was a revelation behind the cameras. He would have made his guru happy. He captures regulation and mysterious locales in a refreshing manner.
Vivek makes you laugh out loud a few times, irritates you a few times and many a time makes you yearn for his past panache. Nevertheless the timing and usage of the dialogue “Thayir Sadham and Milagai Podi do not go together” was chanceless.
It is my personal opinion that the songs of Vidyasagar are not of his standards. His BGM was appreciable.
Srikkanth, as usual fits his bill. Gopika has been very generous with glamour.
The screenplay of Kana Kanden should have been polished a little. The opening scenes of Gopika- Srikkanth relationship should have been minimized, so should their romantic scenes. They could have very well used the time to show the plight of water scarcity/Srikkanth’s research. I don’t know why they decided to humiliate the relation between Bhaskar and his Vasantha Mad. As usual, Anna University refrains from this issue too. When Srikkanth does his well aimed reiteration, it is hard to believe a person as intelligent as Madhan would have such a poor security system, both for his office and for his computer. If questions like these have been asked and rectified, Kana Kanden(KK) would have emerged a classician’s delight like Khakka Khakka(KK).
To sum up, Kana Kanden is not as great as Malathi Rangarajan proclaims in The Hindu and not as mediocre as the comments of Vikatan Vimarsana Kuzhu, it is somewhere in between. You can definitely watch it once. It’s a dream but, not something to dream about. And I saw the dream