Arunraja Kamaraj’s directorial debut ‘Kanaa’ has all sort of emotions in it. No doubt, Arunraja did a great job as a director and also as a part of the movie. At first the film looks like a sports movie, but just one genre doesn’t cover it all. The film portrays two social messages along with sports.
It is a story of a girl Kausalya (Aishwarya Rajesh) who aspires to be a cricketer and make her cricket fanatic father happy. Her father, Murugesan (Sathyaraj), who did not shed a tear on his father’s death but cried when India lost a cricket match. Kausalya wants to play in international cricket and win the World Cup just for the sake of her father. But her journey is not so easy, because of the “society”. It is hard for the society to digest the fact that a girl wants to play a male oriented sports.
The film portrays a beautiful relationship of a father and a daughter. Kausalya has the best father in the world, just like every other girl on the planet, who does everything possible to make her happy, who stands by her when the mother gets mad and when the society judges kausalya’s dream.
‘Kanaa’ also shows the life of a struggling farmer, with heavy loan on his shoulders, farmer’s suicides and increasing burden of uncertainty.
Arunraja as a director succeeded to make a movie with more than one messages and sports. The film deals with gender inequality, the ethnic and regional prejudice, sexism, farmer’s problem, loan and its repayment. It is a perfect crossover of the two perfect stories. None of them seems useless.
As a women oriented film it has no love angle, Murali Krishna (Darshan) enters as a “anna” to Kausalya, so there is no scope.
The terrific cast and supporting cast, did not fail to impress and the screenplay and dialogues are just cherry on the cake.