Some of her best scenes include: the North Indian playerвЂ™s talking down to her and Kousi who doesnвЂ™t understand a word, smiles, shakes her head and tries to move forward her altercations with her mother the meltdown in the dressing room and the subsequent meeting with her father and that final speech. ItвЂ™s a character where the actor has clearly contributed more than the writer. Though the foreign players, especially the Australians, were turned into caricatures.ДЇrom the time she enters the frame, itвЂ™s clear that Aishwarya Rajesh has internalised Kausalya. The cricket scenes were shot with detail and finesse, setting up the fervour and tension in right doses. There isnвЂ™t much to say about the mother except that she is the typical worried, orthodox mother from a village who angrily storms into the cricket ground and beats her daughter with a bamboo broom.В There is a love interest (who looks uncharacteristically like Udayanidhi Stalin, including his acting skills) but the director smartly dodges that clichГ© with a clever scene.

There was something extremely forced about that scene where Murugesan is gazing blissfully at his daughter playing cricket, on TV, and the wife sits back and stares at him. SathyarajвЂ™s performance at times felt melodramatic. Though the issue addressed is of great relevance, the events are predictable and without impact and even tedious for the most part. Murugesan is a farmer who struggles after a drought hits their village. Throughout the film, the father-daughter story runs on a parallel, riddled with ups and downs. Was there a Dhanush/Madhavan/Vijay hangover? Enter the weakest link -the inspirational manual-cum-coach with a familiar backstory, badly reminiscent of Prabhu Selvaraj of Irudhi Suttru and Kabir Khan of Chak De India.В Sivakarthikeyan looks striking but ill at ease. Like every Indian sports film, the selectors are greedy, dishonest and unfair. The village girl who is judged brutally by the outside world the fair upper caste girls versus the impoverished local ponnu Hindi versus Tamil, so on and so forth. The film starts slipping into stereotypes post interval. The friction too appears forced and all you get are the village men and woman laughing awkwardly around her parents, dropping hints about their audacious daughterвЂ™s way of life. But this intricacy is missing in the writing. And here is this young girl who is breaking the glass ceiling by entering a predominantly male sport. From trying to line up her reluctant classmates, to stealthily watching the boys of a local cricket team on the field, to winning them over with her enthusiasm, there is an authenticity in the way she picks up the game familiarising herself with the ball, imitating their posture and eventually becoming one among them.Д«ut the film is also about a village, where women are only considered fit to cook and work in the fields. In fact, the part where young Kousu (the younger Aishwarya is brilliant casting) initiates herself into cricket is superbly done. But thankfully, the narrative never gets cushioned in this father-daughter bond. When she sees him sobbing after a defeat, she decides to pursue cricket, just so she can bring his smile back. KanaaВ starts with promise, telling the tale of a cricket fanatic father (Sathyaraj) who makes his daughter, Kousu (Aishwarya Rajesh) sit next to him as he believes her to be lucky for India. Kanaa,В the story of village girl Kausalya, who aspires to be a cricketer, does fall into that trap but a few competent performances and well-crafted cricket scenes save the film from becoming an entirely middling experience. The narrative tends to follows a familiar pattern too: sketching the protagonistвЂ™s journey that begins on a promising note, skids into a dullness and ends in festive chorus. Stories of triumphant underdogs, especially in sport, have this tendency to pile on clichГ©s.

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