Kannathil Muthamittal (2002) on Netflix
Amudha, told on her ninth birthday that she came to her parents as an adopted baby, insists on meeting her birth mother. Thiruchelvan and Indira take her from Chennai to Sri Lanka.
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Amudha lives in Chennai with her adoptive father Thiruchelvan, an engineer and writer, her mother Indira, a television newscaster, and two younger brothers. On her ninth birthday her parents tell her she came into the family as an adopted baby, while her brothers were born to them. Amudha withdraws from the family, then insists on meeting the woman who gave birth to her. Shyama, that woman, left her infant at a refugee camp in Rameswaram after fleeing the war in northern Sri Lanka, and Thiruchelvan came upon the child during a visit there. Indira says such a search cannot succeed, so Amudha slips off to Rameswaram to check the camp register. Her family intercepts her, and Thiruchelvan persuades Indira that they should all travel to Sri Lanka, where a doctor named Harold Wickramasinghe offers to guide them north.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kannathil Muthamittal (2002)
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- Mani Ratnam first conceived Kannathil Muthamittal as a taut racy thriller built around a female guerrilla leader, before he changed course and based the film on human relationships set against the Sri Lankan Civil War.
- Mani Ratnam approached the actor Vikram to make a special appearance as Keerthana's biological father, but Vikram turned it down, and the role was handed to J. D. Chakravarthy.
- For the role of Indira, Mani Ratnam considered casting Soundarya or relative newcomer Bhumika Chawla, before he finalised Simran to portray the character.
- A. R. Rahman's work on Kannathil Muthamittal earned him his fourth National Film Award for Best Music Direction, his second in a row after Lagaan, for both his songs and his background score.
- The film's six National Film Awards wins were the highest for any Tamil film, tied with Aadukalam, and the highest for 2002, part of a total of 40 awards it has won since release.
- The parts of the film shown as Colombo were actually shot in Puducherry, and the forests of Kerala stood in for the base of the LTTE in northern Sri Lanka.
- The film marked the debut of playback singer Chinmayi, who entered the film industry at the age of 15.
