Kannodu Kanbathellam

Kannodu Kanbathellam
Directed by	Prabhu Solomon
Written by	M. Ravi (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Prabhu Solomon
Story by	M. Ravi
Produced by	K. Prabhakar
Starring	Arjun Sonali Bendre Suchindra Ruchita Prasad
Cinematography	G. Ramesh
Edited by	Suresh Urs
Music by	Deva
Production company	Anbalaya Films
Distributed by	Anbalaya Films
Release date	13 August 1999
Running time	143 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Kannodu Kanbathellam (English: All that is seen by the eyes) is a 1999 Indian Tamil-language romantic thriller film written and directed by Prabhu Solomon in his directorial debut. The film has Arjun and Sonali Bendre in the lead roles, while Suchindra, Ruchita Prasad, Manivannan, Crazy Mohan, Anu Mohan, Kovai Sarala and Nizhalgal Ravi portray supporting roles. Music was composed by Deva. The film was released in August 1999. The film was dubbed in Telugu as Prema Gharshana. The film's name is based on a song from Jeans (1998).

Plot

Seetharam (Arjun) is a well-respected businessman who lives with his PA Muthuswamy (Anu Mohan) in Chennai. Although being a short-tempered and tense person, Seetharam is good at heart and helps people in need. He soon meets and falls in love with Kalyani (Sonali Bendre). After a couple of meetings she sees his good nature and falls in love with him.

But, Seetharam faces problems in the form of another loving couple, Akash (Suchindra) and Akhila (Ruchita) due to an argument between Akhila and Akash and Akhila acts as Seetharam's fiancé so that she can get rid of Akash just before he proposes to Kalyani. Kalyani, being an innocent, believes her words and goes away from Seetharam. Hence, Seetharam becomes the main antagonist of the film to make the lives of Akash and Akhila miserable. An enraged and betrayed Seetharam therefore seeks revenge against Akash and Akhila by separating them. But, he fails in all of his attempts. He also attempts to stop the love marriage between Akash and Akhila, which is arranged by Madana Gopal (Manivannan), Akash's father.

But, when Akash and Akhila meet and ask apologies to him, but Seetharam does not forgive them and sends goons to kill them. To his horror and sad shock, Seetharam with surprise he meets Kalyani at the mall and knowing that she gets married with a blind man Rajasheker (Nizhalgal Ravi). She tells him that after that incident happened in your office I was enter into dark world. After seeing ad of my husband torches light into my life. She tells that I took your advice into my life, even though my husband is blind but I'm satisfied. I'm very happy even though I sacrificed something.she aks about Seetharam's marriage but knowning still he loves me she suddenly ask how about your family. Then kalyani's husband Rajasheker introduced with Seetharam that god gives me settled life with my wife as she is my two eyes. Seetharam was quite and Rajasheker tells him I cannot see you but I can hear your voice. With struggle he says "Best of Luck", and both of them invites Seetharam to theirs home. Seetharam also informs this matter to Akash and Akhila, and saves them from the henchmen who have not seen Seetharam and don't know that he was the one who hired them to murder. Seetharam bids goodbye to both of them and ask them to see a good life partener for him. Hence, the movie ends with the moral that "Too much of anything is good for nothing."

Alternate Climax

After sending goons to kill both Akash and Akhila, Seetharam had a change in mind and decides to forgive and save them from the henchmen. A fight ensures when Seetharam asked the henchmen to leave both them for which they refuse, since they didn't know that he was the one who hired them to murder Akash and Akhila. After the fight with the henchmen Seetharam explains them what made him to change his mind. When Seetharam was on his way to the place where Akash and Akhila were taken by the henchmen, unexpectedly as a sweet surprise he meets Kalyani at the airport with her blind brother (Nizhalgal Ravi). She tells him that Akash and Akhila met her and apologized for their behaviour and she learnt the good heart of Seetharam. Kalyani's brother requests Seetharam to accept his sister to which Seetharam happily accepts. Finally the movie ends with Seetharam and Kalyani getting united.

Cast

• Arjun as Seetharam
• Sonali Bendre as Kalyani
• Suchindra as Akash
• Ruchita Prasad as Akhila
• Manivannan as Madana Gopal, Akash's father
• Chinni Jayanth as Akash's friend
• Crazy Mohan as Kalaiselvam, Akhila's father
• Anu Mohan as Muthuswamy, Seetharam's PA
• Kovai Sarala as Akhila's mother
• Nizhalgal Ravi as Thangarajan
• Thalaivasal Vijay as DCP Bharathi, a police officer
• Pandu as Akhila's boss
• Halwa Vasu as a man who asks Madana Gopal to check whether his currency note is original
• Ravi Shanth as Akash's friend
• Prabhu Solomon as a goon
• Raju Sundaram in a special appearance in the song "Ai Yamma"

Production

Anbalaya Films offered debutant Prabhu Solomon an opportunity to direct a film for their production house, after he had helped them complete the post-production works for Murai Mappillai (1995) when director Sundar C walked out. Prabhu Solomon chose to feature Raghuvaran and Bhanupriya in the leading roles, though the producers Anabalaya Films were reluctant to cast a character artiste in the lead role. Prabhu revealed he met Arjun in Thenkasi during the making of Mudhalvan (1999), at the insistence of his producer and actively tried to make a poor impression. Arjun, nonetheless, was keen and worked on the film.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by Deva and lyrics written by Vaali, Kalaikumar, Thamarai and Mayil.

No.	Song	Singers	Lyrics	Length (m:ss)
1	Ae Kuruvi	Mano	Thamarai	05:29
2	Ai Yamma	Naveen, Swarnalatha	Vaali	04:57
3	Iruvathu Varai	S. Janaki, Hariharan	Kalaikumar	05:49
4	Iruvathu Varai 2	S. Janaki		05:49
5	Iruvathu Varai 3	Hariharan		05:44
6	Mona Mona	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Sujatha	Mayil	05:20
7	Tajmahal Ondru	Hariharan		05:45

Reception

New Straits Times felt that film would have done by "someone more experienced".