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Kanaa Review



Cast: Aishwarya Rajesh, Sathyaraj, Siva Karthikeyan
Music: Dhibu Ninan Thomas
Direction: Arunraja Kamaraj

Kanaa (Dream) is a sports drama film about a girl from a village who dreams to play for India. She wants to play because her father cried seeing India losing the match and she wants to make India win eventually make her father happy. There are quite a few sports films in India, so writing a sports film is challenging as protagonist or his/her team will eventually be the winner. Arunraja Kamaraj tries to make this narrative enjoyable with interesting moments.

One of the beautiful moments is how Kousalya Murugesan (played by Aishwarya Rajesh) says how she saw cricket in her father’s face rather than television. And the sadness in his face (after India losing) inspires Kousalya to play cricket. It’s not just her who watches the match on his face; see her mom who just stares at him during the whole match in which her daughter is playing. Another wonderful piece of writing is how the Tamil language is used as an competitive advantage in the match. Kousalya faces the challenge of not knowing Hindi at her cricket camp and I was praying that there shouldn’t be a preachy dialogue on importance of Tamil. I loved the way it was written.

Arunraja Kamaraj intervene the problems of farmers into the narrative of the dream of the girl playing cricket for India. It was not a misfit as Kousalya’s father (played by Sathyaraj) is a farmer and his struggles made the narrative interesting. It was like two parallel persons running towards their dream. Kousalya towards playing for India and Murugesan towards paying his debt back do farming. Though the climax speech of importance of farmer is stagey and seemed like a force fit. The comedy falls flat and barely makes you laugh except one or two scenes.

The cameo of Siva Karthikeyan as Coach Nelson makes the film a little predictable, but nothing short of entertainment. Aishwarya Rajesh is best as a cricketer and Sathyaraj is amazing especially in the scene where he talks to Kousalya, who is telling happy news but he is going through a bad incident. He isn’t crying in that close-up shot but we get that there is something bad happening to him.

Verdict: Enjoyable sports drama

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