Kanden Kadhalai

Kanden Kadhalai
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Directed by	R. Kannan
Produced by	V. M. Lalitha G. Dhananjayan
Written by	Pattukkottai Prabakar (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Kannan
Story by	Imtiaz Ali
Starring	Bharath Tamannaah Santhanam Sapan Saran
Music by	Vidyasagar
Cinematography	P. G. Muthiah
Edited by	Kola Bhaskar
Production company	Blue Ocean Entertainment Moser Baer
Distributed by	Sun Pictures
Release date	30 October 2009 (2009-10-30)
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Box office	₹14 crore

Kanden Kadhalai (English: I Saw My Love) is a 2009 Indian Tamil romantic comedy film directed by R. Kannan of Jayamkondaan fame. The film, a remake of the 2007 Hindi blockbuster Jab We Met by Imtiaz Ali, stars Bharath and Tamannaah in the lead roles, originally played by Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor. The film was released on 30 October 2009 to mainly positive reviews.

Shakthi (Bharath) becomes the managing director of Rajasekhar group of companies following his father’s death. He feels highly dejected because of troubles surrounding him such as continuous loss in business and also his girl friend Anita (Shammu) ditches him and marries another guy. Above all Shakthi develops enmity over his mother after she decides to remarry following her husband’s death.

Bombarded with troubles, Shakthi one day leaves his office and boards a train without even knowing the destination. In the train, Shakthi meets Anjali (Tamannaah), who is more bubbly and talkative and she is on her way back to her hometown Theni after completing her studies. Anjali keeps talking to Shakthi continuously which irritates him. Shakthi plans to jump from the fast moving train to end his life, but due to Anjali presence, he could not do it. Anjali informs Shakthi that he is in love with Gautham (Munna) and also about her plans to elope with him as her family is highly orthodox.

At night, Anjali finds Shakthi missing in train but spots him sitting in a platform of a station. Anjali gets down from the train to bring Shakthi back but both end up missing the train. Anjali pressurizes Shakthi to help her get the train in the next station as it was because of him she had missed the train. Shakthi and Anjali hires a cab till the next railway station but Anjali misses the train there too. Finally Shakthi and Anjali stay in a lodge and plan to leave early next day to Theni. Slowly friendship develops between Shakthi and Anjali. Shakthi wonders seeing Anjali’s fun loving attitude.

Shakthi informs about his personal problems to Anjali while Anjali asks him to forget about all those things and lead a happy life. She also says that there is no harm in Shakthi’s mother choosing to remarry at this age. Shakthi realizes his mistake. Shakthi and Anjali reach Theni and Anjali’s family request Shakthi to stay at their place for a week. Shakthi agrees and is treated wilth affection by Anjali’s relatives.