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Kandha Kadamba Kathir Vela
Kandha Kadamba Kathir Vela
Directed by	Rama Narayanan
Written by	Rama Narayanan; Pugazhmani (dialogues)
Produced by	N. Radha
Starring	Prabhu; S. Ve. Shekher; Vivek; Vadivelu; Roja; Nirosha; Kovai Sarala;
Cinematography	N. K. Viswanathan
Edited by	Rajkeerthi
Music by	S. A. Rajkumar
Production; company	Sri Thenandal Films
Release date	6 May 2000;
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Kandha Kadamba Kathir Vela is a 2000 Indian Tamil-language comedy film written and directed by Rama Narayanan. The film is loosely based on Poova Thalaiya (1969).^[1] The film was remade in Kannada as Namma Samsara Ananda Sagara (2001).^{[citation needed]}

Plot

Parvathi is a rich and arrogant woman who leads her life with her three sons – Kandha, Kadamba and Kathirvela. The sons are very obedient towards their mother and they run a restaurant in Chennai. Parvathi also had a daughter named Mallika who is married to Vadivelan, a barber following which Parvathi disowns her daughter. Vadivelan decides to teach a lesson for Parvathi. He understands that Parvathi's sons are in love with girls from an economically backward community and sets a plan to get them married against Parvathi's wishes. Kandha is married to Rupini, Kadamba to Rohini and Kathir to Ragini.

Parvathi has originally planned to get her sons married to a rich family from London with a hope of getting hefty dowry and she hates her daughters in law as they are poor. Also, her sons support their wives which angers her further. Parvathi sets a plan to separate her sons from their wives by staging a drama. She pretends to be affectionate towards her daughters in law and persuades them to stay away from their husbands. She also brings a new maid to their home and creates a fear in the minds of her daughters in law about their husbands having an illegitimate affair with the new maid.

Parvathi succeeds in her plan and her daughters-in-law leave her home following a misunderstanding with her sons. Now, she plans to convince her sons to divorce their wives and make them marry her choice. But the maid (appointed by Parvathi) threatens her and demands a sum of Rs. 5 crores for not revealing the truth. Parvathi is kidnapped by the maid and her men. But her sons along with their wives come and save Parvathi following which she understands the real nature of her daughters-in-law and accepts them. She also accepts her daughter and Vadivelan.

Cast

Prabhu as Kandha
S. Ve. Shekher as Kadamba
Vivek as Kathirvela
Vadivelu as Vadivelan
Roja as Rupini
Nirosha as Ragini
Kovai Sarala as Rohini
Latha as Parvathi Amma
Vennira Aadai Moorthy as Subbiah
Bhanusri as Kunnakudi Vallikannu
Bhuvaneswari as Mallika, Vadivelan's wife
Shivani
Kullamani as hotel customer
Madurai Shahul Hameed
Appasamy
Auroville Durai as Durai
Vengal Rao as Henchman
K. Sivasankar in a special appearance

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by S. A. Rajkumar.^[2]

Song	Singers	Lyrics
"Eduda Namma"	Anuradha Sriram, S. A. Rajkumar	Kalidasan
"Kandha Kadamba"	Mano, Vadivelu, Vivek
"Nalla Pasamulla"	Mano, Malaysia Vasudevan
"Pathumani"	Anuradha Sriram, Mano	Viveka
"Thenatru Meena" (Not in film)	K. S. Chithra, Prabhakar	Piraisoodan

Reception

Krishna Chidambaram of Kalki wrote just like when the answer sheets are snatched away in an exam because it is time over, it is as if someone snatched the film roll from Rama Narayanan's hand to the point that it was enough to take the film and we laugh at the way the film ended so bluntly and concluded asking if is this a comedy film.^[3] Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu wrote "So what if the film lacks originality in story and music? (And in some places it is only too obvious.) Or what is wrong if a couple of punch lines remind you of the dialogue you have already heard in a successful film released some years ago? As long as the audiences all over are satisfied with formula- ridden fare and cliches, the rest hardly matters. These are the conclusions you draw after watching Sri Thenandal Films' Kandha Kadamba Kadhir-Vela".^[1] Malini Mannath of Chennai Online wrote "The ingredients of a typical Ramanarayanan film are all found here too - a silly story line, a script that even a child can grasp, and crude comedy that would make his fans roll in mirth and the others squirm in embarrassment".^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Rangarajan, Malathi (12 May 2000). "Film Review: Kandha Kadamba Kadhir-Vela". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 23 June 2023. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
^ "Kandha Kadamba Kathir Vela". Raaga.com. Archived from the original on 23 June 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
^ சிதம்பரம், கிருஷ்ணா (28 May 2000). "கந்தா கடம்பா கதிர்வேலா". Kalki (in Tamil). p. 67. Archived from the original on 23 June 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023 – via Internet Archive.
^ Mannath, Malini. "Kandha Kadamba Kathirvela". Chennai Online. Archived from the original on 7 January 2003. Retrieved 2 October 2024.