Alisa Rivera

Kandukondain Kandukondain with Alisa Rivera

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Kandukondain Kandukondain (I Have Found It, I Have Found It) is one of my all time favorite Tamil films. This adaptation of Sense & Sensibility came out in 2000, and has an amazing cast: Ajith, Tabu, Aishwarya Rai, Mammootty and Abbas. The music by A. R. Rahman is just amazing. When I was listening to one of the songs, I thought, I just want to watch this whole movie again, and I invited Alisa to watch this film and discuss it with me. She loved it so much, that she watched it three times in one week! I also rewatched the 1995 Emma Thompson Ang Lee Sense & Sensibility so I would have that fresh in my mind for comparison. Alisa and I agreed that while the Emma Thompson film is held up as the gold standard adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, Kandukondain Kandukondain improves on it in several ways. I had such a good time discussing this wonderful film with Alisa Rivera (@BollywoodNewbie).

1: Nenokkadine Review with Alisa the Bollywood Newbie

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Alisa Rivera, @BollywoodNewbie on Twitter, asked me to suggest a South Indian film we could both watch and discuss.  She’s been watching Hindi films for the last couple of years, and has just started to watch Malayalam films.  She had not seen any other Telugu films other than Baahubali, and did not know Mahesh Babu.  1: Nenokkadine was my first Mahesh film, and I’d been meaning to watch it again.  I’m not sure it was the best one to recommend as Alisa’s first Mahesh film, but she left wanting to see more of his films.  We also talk about the deaths of Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor as we recorded this right after their deaths.