Kannathil Muthamittal

On her ninth birthday, Amudha (P. S. Keerthana) learns that the parents who raised her, Thiruchelvan (R. Madhavan) and Indira (Simran), are not the ones who gave birth to her. She wants to find her birth mother, and the search leads the family to Sri Lanka, where the civil war and the Tamil Tigers wait. Mani Ratnam brings A. R. Rahman's songs into the story and has Ravi K. Chandran shoot the island in warm, close light.