Closing Night Gala ~ Sunday, April 27th ~ 6:30 pm

A Peck On The Cheek (Kannathil Muthamittal)

India/2002/136 min/35mm

Director: Mani Ratnam
Producer: Mani Ratnam, G. Srinivasan
Screenplay: Mani Ratnam
Editor: Sreekar Prasad. A
Production Design: Sabu Cyril
Cinematopgrapher: Ravi K. Chandran
Composer: A.R. Rahman
Cast: Madhavan, Simran, P.S. Keerthana, Prakash Raj, Nandita Das

On her 9th birthday, Amudha learns that she was adopted. Stunned by this new information, she grows obsessed with locating her birth mother. She and her parents embark on a harrowing journey to Sri Lanka to find the woman who abandoned Amudha at birth in order to fight for peace.

In this touching and sentimental story, Mani Ratnam's newest work portrays the current ethnic crisis in Sri Lanka and depicts the lives of the freedom fighters with stark realism.

Tamil (English subtitles)