page_title: Kandukondain Kandukondain
section_title: Filming
hierarchical_section_title: Kandukondain Kandukondain / Production / Filming
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of Eilean Donan castle, in the Scottish Highlands, looking down the bridge leading to its main entrance.
context_page_description: Kandukondain Kandukondain is a 2000 Indian, Tamil-language romantic drama film that is based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility. The film was directed and co-written by Rajiv Menon, and features an ensemble cast of Mammootty, Ajith Kumar, Tabu, Aishwarya Rai and Abbas. Veteran actors Srividya, Raghuvaran and Manivannan play supporting roles. The film's soundtrack was scored by A. R. Rahman and the cinematographer was Ravi K. Chandran.
  After several delays, Kandukondain Kandukondain opened to Indian audiences on 5 May 2000. The film was dubbed and released in Telugu as Priyuraalu Pilichindi and the producers released subtitled versions worldwide. The film won a National Film Award and two Filmfare Awards South, and was featured in international film festivals.
context_section_description: Scenes with Mammootty's soldier character were filmed in Munnar from February to April 1999,  just before the outbreak of the Kargil War. The team were able to borrow a former military helicopter for the sequences. A large portion of the film's first half was filmed in the Kanadugathan area of Karaikudi. The team persuaded industrialist M. A. M. Ramaswamy to lend them his palatial Chettiar mansion for filming; they secured permission to use the property because the producer Thanu was an acquaintance of Ramaswamy. Menon submitted a one-page synopsis of the film to Ramaswamy, who gave his permission under the condition that a death scene was filmed elsewhere. Menon hired the Rao Bahadur house for the extra scenes. According to Menon, during filming in the Chettiar mansion, the unit bonded with Rai and Tabu, becoming good friends; Ajith Kumar learnt from Mammootty and the whole unit ate dinner together. Most of the project's first half was filmed within a week.
  In May 1999, the crew along with Rai and Abbas went to Scotland to film the title song in Dornie with Eilean Donan Castle as a backdrop. Menon used the location to show Rai's character Meenakshi is living in a fantasy world so he filmed the song with a blue and green theme. In comparison, the team wanted to contrast the colours for Tabu's song by using red and brown as the main colours.  The production team subsequently planned a four-day trip to Egypt to film the song "Enna Solla Pogirai" with the Giza pyramids as a backdrop; however, the trip turned into a week-long schedule. The first part of the song was shot in Karaikudi with a train in the background. Rajiv Menon and actors  Ajith Kumar, Tabu, Raju Sundaram and Ravi K. Chandran travelled daily for three hours from Cairo to film in the heat; one filming day was cancelled after Tabu fainted. Professional Kathakali artists were used for the song "Konjum Mainakale", and the video for "Yengay Yenedhu Kavidhai" was filmed against the backdrop of Chennai's monsoonal rains. Meanwhile, the song "Kannamoochi Yenada" was filmed with the leading cast at Kushaldas Gardens in Chennai. Some scenes featuring Rai were filmed at Menon's flat in Chennai.
  Kandukondain Kandukondain was delayed for six months due to the success of  Rai's  films Taal and Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, which prompted the revival of other projects she had signed up to in that period. Menon's insistence composer A. R. Rahman reworked some of the music to provide a better fusion of classical and contemporary music also delayed progress. Filming ended six months behind the schedule devised by Menon but according to him, everything happened as planned.
caption: The title song was filmed at Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland.[33]
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