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Kanal (2015 film)

Kanal (English: Ember) is a 2015 Indian Malayalam-
language thriller road movie, directed by M. Padmakumar and
Kanal
written by S. Suresh Babu. The film stars Mohanlal and Honey
Rose in lead roles. while Anoop Menon, Atul Kulkarni, Pratap
Pothen, and Nikita Thukral in supporting roles. The film was
produced by Abaam Movies in association with Aashirvad
Cinemas. Ouseppachan and Vinu Thomas composed the
soundtrack. The principal photography commenced in May
2015 in Kochi and completed in August. Kochi, Hyderabad,
Karwar, Goa and Qatar were the filming locations.[1] The film
released in India on 22 October 2015.

Contents
Plot
Cast
Production Theatrical release poster
Development and casting Directed by M. Padmakumar
Filming
Screenplay by S. Suresh Babu
Post-production
Produced by Abraham
Music Mathew
Release Starring Mohanlal
Reception Honey Rose
Critical reception
Anoop Menon
Box office
Atul Kulkarni
Trivia
Pratap Pothen
References Nikita Thukral
External links Sheelu Abraham
Gowri Nandha

Plot Narrated by Prithviraj

Sukumaran
The story is set against the backdrop of a global recession in Cinematography Vinod Illampally
the United Arab Emirates. The story revolves around a thriller
Edited by Ranjan
–- revenge plot that has resulted from the recession. The story
explores the basic nature of cruelty and love in human nature Abraham
through the lives of four individuals: John David, Ananda

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Raman, Raghuchandran and Kuruvila Mathew. Music by Ouseppachan

(songs, score)
The story starts in a train journey, where John David, Ananda
Vinu Thomas
Raman are travelling in the second class. John talks to various
(songs)
passengers, picks up a conversation with Anantharaman and
tells him, that he has seen him somewhere. The train breaks Production Abaam Movies
down and everyone gets down to have refreshment. John companies
Aashirvad
suggests Ananda Raman, that they hop on to a passing lorry
Cinemas
and then take a taxi. Meanwhile, John identifies him as the
owner of Pravasi Malayalam channel in Dubai sometimes Distributed by Maxlab Cinemas
back. They reach a nearby town by lorry and take a room in a and
local lodge. That night they drink together and shares each Entertainments
other's story. John works as an animator, in a big concern. (India)
During his childhood he fell in love Anna in Assam. He lived in
orphanage where Anna used to visit with her father. When he Release date 22 October 2015
was ten years, her family moved due to her father's transfer. (India)
John studied and moved out of orphanage, got job. Later at the Running time 158 minutes
age of 36, he moved to Dubai for a job, there he meets Anna
again. He learns that she is married. At times, he meets her. Country India
Suddenly Anna and her husband meets with an accident where Language Malayalam
her husband dies. John feels lucky, proposes to Anna after all
the rituals get over. He feels that life has given him his chance for waiting so long. He marries
Anna. Now he asks Ananda Raman, as why is he upset and what is bothering him. Ananda Raman
shares his flashback. He runs a channel in Kerala, where all news is given accurately. He takes the
loan and arranges for fund, and opens a new channel in Dubai. His wife asks him if this move is
required and is it safe. He wants to make big in life. He moves to Dubai to run the channel. A big
recession strikes UAE where almost all contractors lose their job and are asked to leave. Most of
their visas are cancelled and are deported asap. Ananda Raman's channel keeps capturing this
news. He also runs short of fund for the channel and is unable to pay the debt, and one day he has
to return to Kerala. His sudden visit worries his wife. The money lenders chase him over phone and
threatens, he changes his house, phone number. He and his wife have a heated argument and he
leaves the house. Now he is on the run.

John suggests him that, if he accompanies him to Karwar the next day, who knows god might give
him the money he needed. They both go to sleep and head to Karwar next day morning by a car.
They arrive at an estate, meets Raghuchandran and his family. John and Raghu's daughter met in
Facebook a year back and had been talking on a resort proposal. This meeting is to materialize
that. The daughter and John shares an intimate moment. A big party hosted. Later that night after
everyone leaves, John threatens Raghu and asks to transfer all his money to an account, after
showing him a photo. Raghu is shocked. He obliges and his wife is also next to him. they hand over
all the cash at home to him. His daughter walks to that room and get shocked too by seeing the
photo. Once the money is transferred, John kills all three of them.

John calls Ananda Raman on his cell and asks him to join upstairs. Once he reaches he shoots a
video of him holding the dying daughter. Now they both pack up and leave from there. Ananda
Raman shouts in the car while travelling. John stops the car, Ananda Raman gets out of the car,
and argues with him. John yells saying that it is fate to be here. Throws a bag at him which has
money and leaves from there.

Meanwhile, an actress is found dead near a train track in her car. Her husband Kuruvila Mathew is

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informed, he flies from UAE to India for the identification. He watches all the CCTV footage after
he gets to know that all the money in his account has been transferred 30 minutes before her
death. He finds a man in the video, spending lot of time with his wife in their house. Kuruvila calls
Raghu and tries to inform, but it was too late. Kuruvila reaches Karwar to find out all three are
dead. Here also he watches the party video recording and finds the same person. He tries to track
him down after seeing Ananda Raman next to the new person.

Ananda Raman after reaching his home, reconciles with his wife, his father-in-law promises to help
him out of debt. He hides the money which was given by John. Kuruvila gets in contact with
Ananda Raman, meets him and tells that he saw the video recording. He also tells that he is John's
next target. Ananda Raman confesses that he has no knowledge of why John is doing this.

Later that day, Ananda Raman sees John following Kuruvila, and he also follows. All three reach
Kuruvila's house. John asks Kuruvila to confess what he knows.

Kuruvila shares that, during the recession both Kuruvila and Raghu with their families were to be
deported, when Anna's father saw them in the high commission and helped them to arrange the
visa. Both families did not want to go out of UAE, they were paranoid about the fact to return to
India and do what for their living. They were jealous on Anna's family of how rich they were and
how sophisticated they were. That's when they planned to murder the whole family after looting
their money.

John told that the family killed by Kuruvila and the others was his wife, her father, mother and
four infants. Kuruvila and his wife threatened Anna's father to transfer the money and asked them
to board the car. Once all of them boarded, they filled the car with carbon monoxide and killed
them. They escaped with more than 35 million.

When this news reached John who was in Assam for a project, he travelled back and started
digging as the money went missing. He was devastated to see his infants in the mortuary. He has
not even met them due to his tight deadline in the project. Hence he traced all the clues, tracked
each one of them and took revenge for what was done to his family. He befriended Raghu's
daughter over Facebook and earned her trust, meanwhile kept meeting Kuruvila's wife, impressed
her, gained her trust and made her transfer the money, after which he killed her in the car, by
suffocating her with John's hand, seen him wearing a glove and covers the murder by making the
car filled with carbon monoxide, to disguise the murder, making it seem like an accident.

Next was Raghu's family at Karwar, now Kuruvila. He makes him drink poison. He falls down,
dead from the chair he was sitting on after drinking. Now he holds his leg and tells, you are
finished John. John tells Ananda Raman that he has been the witness as the Anna family car
accident case was brainstormed in Ananda Raman's channel in UAE, where he gave a verdict as
accident. Kuruvila's wife indirectly paid him to give such verdict.

Kuruvila livecasted this whole thing in Facebook from his CCTV. The case was dismissed, after a
few years. Ananda Raman, a book writer now, is nominated for his book Paid news is paid murder.
He thanks John for all his support and guidance in another train journey.

Cast
▪ Mohanlal as John David
▪ Honey Rose as Anna John David

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▪ Anoop Menon as Ananda Raman

▪ Atul Kulkarni as Kuruvila Mathew
▪ Jose as Joseph
▪ Pratap Pothen as Hilltop Raghu / Raghuchandran
▪ Nikita Thukral as Reenu Kuruvila
▪ Sheelu Abraham as Revathy
▪ Gowri Nandha as Anamika
▪ Innocent as Natarajan
▪ Santhosh Keezhattoor as Ananda Raman's friend
▪ Ambika Mohan
▪ Sadiq
▪ Kochu Preman
▪ Anjali Nair
▪ Arun Narayan
▪ Balaji Sharma as Subash, driver of Kuruvila Mathew
▪ Akshara Kishor as Parvathy
▪ Jayakrishnan as Police Officer

Additionally, actor Prithviraj Sukumaran provides his voice for narrating the events in the
beginning and towards the end of the movie

Production

Development and casting

The film was officially announced at the end of January 2015, which was said to be a revenge-
thriller genre story revolving around two individuals with revengeful mind. Mohanlal,
Padmakumar and Suresh Babu were collaborating for the second time after Shikkar (2010) which
was also a revenge-thriller.[2] In the beginning of February 2015, M. Padmakumar said to The
Times of India, that he want to shoot the movie in a realistic way, "Kanal revolves around two
people who are stuck in Dubai, affected by the recession, and are now back to God's Own Country.
The two don't share a similar lifestyle and have had different experiences in Dubai. What happens
after they meet in Kerala forms the plot of the story". The filming was then said to start in August
2015.[3] In May 2015, Padmakumar further explained about the subject, "The story unfolds during
a train journey.[4] Two unknown people meet in the train and how this journey changes their lives
forms the plot." According to Padmakumar, about Mohanlal's character, "There will be multiple
variations in his get-up as the movie will capture three to four stages of his life".[5] The film is
marketed with the tagline "Every end has an old beginning".[6]

A popular young actor was said to share screen space alongside Mohanlal in an equally important
role.[7] The production team asked suggestions for names from the audience through social
platforms. Speculated names of Prithviraj Sukumaran and Dulquer Salmaan surfaced.[8] Finally
Anoop Menon was fixed. After writer Suresh Babu narrated the script to Anoop, he was
immediately signing on the project, after his excitements about the film.[9] Anoop who had earlier

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done few small roles in some Mohanlal films is doing an equally important full-length character
opposite him. Anoop announced the news through his Facebook page on 3 May.[10] Atul Kulkarni
will also essay a key role. It was reported that he will play an intense role and will be an
antagonist.[11] Nikita Thukral is making her comeback into Mollywood with the film. It was the first
time she was working with Mohanlal. Nikita said, she has combination scenes with Mohanlal and
Kulkarni, which is a love triangle. She completed her shooting portions in Kerala with June
2015.[12] Honey Rose shared screen space with Mohanlal for the first time, she played the role of
his wife who is a teacher in a Doha-based international school. Few of her scenes were shot around
Middle East.[13] Innocent plays a bar owner who is in search of Nagamanikyam to escape his ill
fortune.[14]

Filming

The film's launch and pooja function was held on 21 May 2015
on Mohanlal's birthday. But Mohanlal was not present at the
event as he was in a short vacation in Japan after his tight film
schedules.[15] The principal photography commenced on 22
May 2015 in Kochi.[16] The filming was supposed to start from
the first week of June, but got preponed due to an undisclosed
reason. Mohanlal joined the sets on 26 May.[17]

In June 2015, a picture of Mohanlal kissing actor Innocent on Ramoji Film City, was a significant
his cheek inside a train compartment which was a recreation of location.
a movie scene from 1990 Malayalam film No.20 Madras Mail
was well received in social networking sites. The sequence was
shot inside the Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad.[14] The first schedule was completed in
Hyderabad[18] where Ramoji Film City was a major location.[19] The second schedule which went
on in Kochi mainly featured actors including Anoop Menon, Sheelu Abraham and Honey Rose.[20]

The last schedule was at Qatar.[21] After receiving permissions, the team started shooting in Doha
as per the schedule on 17 July 2015. The shooting was held at locations in Doha Corniche, Banana
Island and the Sealine Beach Resort at Mesaieed. An Indian school and a hospital was also part of
the shoot. About the filming locations Padmakumar spoke to the newspaper Qatar Tribune, "The
beauty of Doha has hardly been shown in Indian films. Therefore, we have selected a few beautiful
locations for shooting the film".[22] The filming continued there for two weeks.[23] The filming was
wrapped on 6 August 2015 in Doha.[24]

Post-production

In September 2015, almost all post-production work was completed with only Mohanlal's dubbing
part being left as he was working in another film. By the time, the production team released a first
look motion poster on 8 September 2015 via YouTube.[25][26] It was the first time that a Mohanlal
film released a motion poster as part of the promotion work.[27] The moster of 9 seconds shows
Mohanlal in the backdrop of Middle East city Doha which was shown with the tagline – 'Every end
has an old beginning'.[28]

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Music
The music was released by Muzik 247 on 17 September 2015 in Kanal
an event organised at Hotel Travancore Court, Kochi at 7 Soundtrack album by
pm.[29] The soundtrack album was composed by Ouseppachan Ouseppachan, Vinu Thomas
and Vinu Thomas ("Oru Venal Kaataai"), with lyrics written by
Dr. Madhu Vasudevan and Prakash Maraar. It featured five Released 17 September 2015
songs, four of them were composed by Ouseppachan and one Recorded 2015
by Vinu Thomas. Directors Joshiy, Kamal and Thampi Genre Film soundtrack
Kannamthanam were special guests at the function.[30] At the
presence of the film crew and other invited guests, Joshiy Length 22:15
released the music.[31] Label Muzik 247
Producer Ouseppachan, Vinu
The first video song "Oru Venal Kaataai" was released online
Thomas
by Muzik 247 on 7 October evening. The song features Anoop
Menon, Sheelu Abraham and child artist Akshara Kishor. The Ouseppachan chronology
song penned by Prakash Maraar and music composed by Vinu Utopiayile Kanal
Thomas was sung by K. S. Chithra and Sudeep Kumar.[32] The Rajavu (2015)
video of song "Pathukke Entho" featuring Mohanlal and Honey (2015)
Rose was released on 16 October.[33]

Kanal: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

No. Title Lyrics Singer(s) Length
1. "Pathukke Entho" Dr. Madhu Vasudevan Neha Nair 04:35
2. "Maaya Nagarame" Dr. Madhu Vasudevan Sharreth 04:29
3. "Magar Thum" Dr. Madhu Vasudevan Ustad Faiyaz Khan 05:22
4. "Killathe Chollamo" Dr. Madhu Vasudevan Vaikom Vijayalakshmi 04:21
5. "Oru Venal Kaataai" Prakash Maraar K. S. Chithra, Sudeep 04:08
Kumar
Total length: 22:15

Release
The film released in Vijayadashami day on 22 October 2015, in more than 100 theatres in
Kerala.[34] An official teaser of span 40 seconds was released on 6 October 2015,[35]Filmibeat.com
gave it a positive review calling it "highly promising" and praised the dialogue in the teaser.[36] On
10 October, the official trailer was unveiled on YouTube and received positive responses in social
medias.[37] The television satellite right was sold pre-release to Surya TV.[38] The film's DVD was
released on 2 January 2016.[39]

Reception

Critical reception

The film received mixed reviews from the critics and audience alike. Akhila Menon of
Filmibeat.com rated the film 2.5/5 and praised Mohanlal's performance and cinematography, but

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was critical about the film editing, songs, and screenplay. She said, "Director Padmakumar and
scenarist S Suresh Babu have succeeded in depicting a decent crime thriller. But the screenplay
fails to keep the audience engaged after a point and falls into a slow pace at certain point."[40]
Nelson K. Paul of Malayala Manorama rated the film 2.5/5 and concluded the review saying,
"Kanal claims to be a revenge thriller but the writing falters. Loopholes are aplenty in the plot.
Even if one ignores them, the movie has very less to keep the viewers engaged", he also criticized
the songs.[41] A critic from Behindwoods.com rated the film 2.5/5 and said, "Done differently this
movie would have approached greatness, but is a bit of a letdown, especially in the second half."
The critic praised the technical department but described the background music as "loud, jarring
and is a throwback to the 1980s."[42] Sachin Jose of International Business Times awarded 2.5/5
and praised Mohanlal's "remarkable" performance but criticized the screenplay. He said, "Though
the film failed to create twists of a typical thriller movie, it was the facial expressions and gestures
by Mohanlal that kept alive the suspenses throughout the film", also remarked "A tighter
screenplay would have made the film more engaging and given the viewers a more thriller-like
experience".[43] Paresh C. Palicha of Rediff.com rated 2.5/5 and stated "This film is made in a
technically slipshod manner. It is the actors – led by Mohanlal – who strive hard to hold it together
and almost succeed making it a decent watch", also added "Mohanlal gives an effortless
performance of a jovial man, who turns into a barbarian by the half time".[44] Chandrakanth
Viswanath of The New Indian Express wrote "It would have been a better outing if the movie was
slimmer by chiseling out a few scenes".[45] Sony V. Mathew of Mathrubhumi stated "By refraining
from action scenes the director did his best to bring in that Hollywood style craft. On the scripting
side the exaggerated dependence on ‘fate’ to narrate the story is questionable".[46]

Box office

The opening day collection in Kerala box office was ₹81 lakh (US$100,000).[47] The film is said to
have collected approximately ₹2 crore (US$250,000) in three days from Kerala.[48] It grossed
₹4.76 crore (US$600,000) from theaters in 14 days of release.[49]

Trivia
During the movie's conclusion, the character Anantharaman, played by Anoop Menon, quotes "If
you're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism" by Warren Ellis
mistakenly as if "Warren Ellis was a journalist. Unknown to the filmmakers, Warren Ellis is
actually a Comic Book and Fiction writer and the quote is by Spider Jerusalem, the central
character from his own comic book series Transmetropolitan.[50][51]

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External links
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