Kanne Kalaimaane

Kanne Kalaimaane (My Dear Gorgeous!) is a 2019 Tamil-language drama film, the story surrounded with strong female power. The film written and directed by Seenu Ramasamy. The film stars Udhayanidhi Stalin and Tamannaah in the lead roles. The film is produced by Udhayanidhi under his Red Giant Movies. Lyrics written by Vairamuthu and music by Yuvan Shankar Raja. Filming of Kanne Kalaimaane began in mid 2018 and ended in 45 days in a single schedule. Overall this is Tamannaah's 50th movie and 23rd Tamil movie as a heroine/in lead role in her career. The film received generally positive reviews and become a below average grosser.

Synopsis
Kamalakannan (Udhayanidhi Stalin), an agriculture graduate doing organic farming, meets with the newly-appointed bank manager Bharathi (Tamannaah) regarding unpaid bank loans. She later learns about his aide to the poor village people by obtaining loans for them and comes to appreciate him. The romance opens to wedding after meeting between both families. Kannan's father (Poo Ram) and grandmother Appatha (Vadivukkarasi) are skeptic about Bharathi as an educated and well-employed woman's integration to their simple rural family. Kannan's father arranges for the couple to live in a separate house to avoid problems between Apaatha and Bharathi, as she does not approve that Bharthi continues her work after marriage. All is fine until one day, a serious issue comes up, whereby Bharathi diagnosed with eye disease and turns blind.

Cast

 * Udhayanidhi Stalin as Kamalakannan, an agriculture graduate and organic farmer
 * Tamannaah as Bharathi, the manager of Madurai Grama Bank
 * Vadivukkarasi as Appatha, Kannan's grandmother
 * Poo Ram as Kannan's father
 * Devipriya as Kannan's mother
 * Shaji Chen as Bank Manager Mathrubhootham
 * Vasundhara Kashyap as Muthu Lakshmi, Kannan's classmate
 * Vetri Kumaran as Asst. Manager Vetri

Production
After the commercial success of Dharma Durai starring Vijay Sethupathi, Seenu Ramasamy who also has the credit of introducing Vijay Sethupathi in Tamil Cinema announced the film title Kanne Kalaimaane. Udhayanidhi Stalin joined in as the Hero and Producer and Tamannaah who also was the heroine of Dharma Durai roped into play the female lead. Jalandhar Vasan, a former student from the Balu Mahendra Film School who was shooting a song for Arasiyalla Idhellam Saadharnamappa was signed to be the cinematographer. Kasi Viswanathan signed to edit the film. Filming started in January 2018 in the green villages near Madurai. The film shoot finished in a single schedule on 14 March 2018.

The words ‘Kanne Kalaimaane’ are the first line of the famous song from the Sridevi - Kamal Haasan film Moondram Pirai (1982) directed by Balu Mahendra who was also the Guru of Seenu Ramasamy. This iconic line was written by Kannadasan and composed by Ilaiyaraaja.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack of the film composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, with Vairamuthu as lyricist.

The Audio Rights was bagged by Sony Music.