Kandahar (2010 film)
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Directed by | Major Ravi |
Produced by | Sunil C. Nair Mohanlal |
Written by | Major Ravi |
Starring | Mohanlal Amitabh Bachchan Ganesh Venkatraman Sumalatha Ragini Dwivedi Ananya |
Music by | Shamir Tandon Vivek V. K. |
Cinematography | Ravi Varman Velraj |
Edited by | Don Max |
Production
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Zoe Estebe Moviez
Pranavam Arts International |
Distributed by | Maxlab Release |
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Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
Kandahar is a 2010 Malayalam language Indian war film directed by Major Ravi. It stars Mohanlal, reprising his role from the prequels, Keerthi Chakra (2006) and Kurukshetra (2008) as Major Mahadevan. Amitabh Bachchan and Ganesh Venkatraman also play major roles. The plot is based on the hijacking incident of Indian Airlines Flight 814 in 1999.[1][2] The political situation is portrayed from an Indian perspective in the film. The film was released on 16 December 2010, along with its dubbed versions in Tamil and Hindi.
The sound design of the film is done by Baylon Fonseca. Kandahar is co-produced by Sunil Nair and Mohanlal. It was marketed online by Shaz Shabeer Strikers and Crew Kochi. The film, unlike the prequels it received negative reviews.[3]
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Plot
Suryanatha Sharma (Ganesh Venkatraman) is an educated, unemployed man. His father, Lokanatha Sharma (played by Amitabh Bachchan), wants to see his son victorious in life. Things change when he meets Major Mahadevan (Mohanlal). It's another mission with Mahadevan and crew, as they deal with international terrorism with a flight being hijacked by hardcore terrorists.
Cast
- Mohanlal as Major Mahadevan
- Amitabh Bachchan as Lokanatha Sharma
- Ganesh Venkatraman as Suryanatha Sharma
- Sumalatha as Sumangaly, wife of Lokanatha Sharma
- Ananya as a Student
- Ragini Dwivedi as Aishwarya, Surya's girlfriend
- Major Ravi as Company Havaldar Major Shiva
- K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Pathumma
- Mamukkoya as Mullah
- N. L. Balakrishnan as Balettan
- Anoop Chandran as Selvan
- Jaffer Idukki as Mani
- Ragasya (Special appearance)
- S.P.Sreekumar
- Joemon Joshy
Production
Development
Kandahar is the third film in the "Major Mahadevan series", the previous ones being Kirtichakra (2006) and Kurukshetra (2008). Kirtichakra was a runaway success in Kerala,[citation needed] and Kurukshetra was a superhit.[4] Jeeva played a supporting role in Kirtichakra and Siddique in Kurukshetra. This time Ganesh Venkatraman is playing the supporting role. Surya was supposed to do the role but was replaced by Ganesh when he opted out of the project due to date clashes with 7aam Arivu.[5]
Casting
Mohanlal plays the lead role and is the film's producer. Several other artists from Tamil cinema were initially approached to play secondary leads as well, including Suriya and Arun Vijay, who all cited date conflicts. Later, Ganesh Venkatraman was finalized for a role. Amitabh Bachchan was approached for a major role in the film, and he immediately agreed. Even though he did not ask for any remuneration for his appearance, he was offered a whopping 8 crores.[6] His son in Kandahar is played by Ganesh Venkatraman.[7] Later, model Ragini Dwivedi was signed up to play a supporting role.[8][9] There were reports that Parvathy Omanakuttan was also cast in the film.[8]
Locations
At a press conference, Major Ravi reported that the aeroplane sequences of the film would be shot in Russia. Other locations include Ooty and New Delhi.
Release
The film was released on 16 December 2010 in 111 theatres in Kerala, 9 theatres in Bengaluru, 5 theatres in Chennai, and around 18 theatres in Mumbai, Delhi, Pune and Hyderabad. Kandahar has collected ₹ 5.25 crores revenue from before releasing through selling satellite rights, audio rights, video rights, overseas distribution rights, and theatre advances.[citation needed]
Reception
Kandahar received negative reviews upon release.[10] Though it was one of the most-awaited films of the year, it failed to attain a good word-of-mouth or a favorable and ended up as flop at the box office.[3][10] A review by Sify, which rated it "below average" said, "There are moments when every Indian would feel proud about being born in this great land, but the shaky script, ordinary action sequences and a faulty climax lets the film down."[11] Rediff published a nearly negative review saying, "A better script would have perhaps made the return of Major Mahadevan more appealing." It rated the film 2.5 in a scale of five.[12] OneIndia gave the movie a 3/5 rating,[13] MMDb gave a rating of 2/5 [14] and so did Now Running a 2/5.[15]
Accolades
- Asianet Film Awards
Soundtrack
Kandahar | |
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Soundtrack album by Shamir Tandon | |
Released | 27 November 2010 |
Genre | Film soundtrack |
Label | Satyam Audios |
Producer | Sunil C. Nair (under Zoe Estebe Moviez) and Mohanlal (under Pranavam Arts International |
The soundtrack features five songs composed by Shamir Tandon, who is known for his compositions in Madhur Bhandarkar's films.,[16] with lyrics by Sandeep Nath, Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma, Sudhakar Sharma and Kaushal Kishor.
No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Aye Janani" | Sandeep Nath | Sonu Nigam | 4:56 |
2. | "Pakida Pakida" | Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma | M. G. Sreekumar, Neetha Subhir | 4:22 |
3. | "Ho Chupi He" | Kaushal Kishor | Kailash Kher | 4:23 |
4. | "Dheemee Dheemee" | Sudhakar Sharma | Sunidhi Chauhan | 4:18 |
5. | "Aye Janani" | Sandeep Nath | Neetha Subhir | 5:08 |
6. | "Ho Chupi" | Kaushal Kishor | Kailash Kher | 4:39 |
7. | "Tigde Tigde" | Sandeep Nath | Amit Kumar, Neetha Subhir | 4:22 |
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- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Kandahar Just average. OneIndia. Retrieved 16 December 2010
- ↑ Movie review by Sify. Sify. Retrieved 16 December 2010
- ↑ Meghna George. Big B, Mohanlal shine in Kandahar. Rediff. Retrieved 17 December 2010
- ↑ Kandahar - Movie Review | Reviews - Oneindia Entertainment
- ↑ http://en.msidb.org/m.php?6787 MalayalaSangeetham.Info
- ↑ Kandahar Review - Malayalam Movie Review by VN
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