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Wikipedia article
'Kanchana 3' (marketed as 'Muni 4: Kanchana 3') is a 2019 Indian Tamil language action-comedy horror film co-produced, written and directed by Raghava Lawrence. The film stars Raghava Lawrence in a dual role with Oviya, Vedhika, Nikki Tamboli and Ri Djavi Alexandra. While Kovai Sarala, Soori, Tarun Arora, and Kabir Duhan Singh play supporting roles. Produced by Sun Pictures, the fourth installment in the 'Muni (film series)', the film began production during October 2018 and released on 19 April 2019. Later, the film was dubbed in Hindi as K3: Kaali Ka Karishma.
Plot
The ghost-fearing Raghava and his happy family consisting of his mother, brother, sister in law, and their daughter set out to Coimbatore for a family function, and there, the whole family, including Raghava's female cousins Priya, Kavya, and Divya, witness strange and scary incidents at their grandparents' house, as well as Raghava getting possessed. The subsequent events return to another character named Kaali.
Kaali is a social worker who runs an ashram that gives shelter and feeds poor people. He has also contributed to the studies of poor youths. One day, a politician named Bhavani, the brother of the minister, Shankar enters Kaali's ashram. He asks to keep a sum of 100 crores in his ashram, which is black money, and return 80 crores and keep 20 crores as a source of funding to his ashram. When Kaali refuses, he sends his men to kill Kaali's handicapped innocents, which angers Kaali. He then sets out to kill Bhavani's henchmen and finally him. When Bhavani is murdered, Shankar is angered and his assistant devises a plan to kill Kaali. When Rosie and Kaali take a ride on a bike, Shankar appoints two lorries and crushes them both. Rosie dies there, and Kaali dies watching the video of his ashram and his supporters getting destroyed in a fire.
The possessed Raghava sets out to kill Shankar. However, to his surprise, Shankar had already arranged exorcists to crush Kaali (possessed Raghava). However, surpassing them, he kills Shankar and avenges his death.
In the end credits, it is shown that Kaali and Rosie join hands together and walk. Kanchana 4 motion poster on the ending
Cast
*Raghava Lawrence in a dual role as Raghava and Kaali
*Oviya as Kavya, Raghava's cousin
*Vedhika as Priya, Raghava's cousin
*Nikki Tamboli as Divya, Raghava's cousin
*Ri Djavi Alexandra as Rosie, Kaali's love interest
*Kovai Sarala as Raghava's mother
*Devadarshini as Kamakshi, Raghava's sister-in-law
*Soori as Govindan, Kaali's friend
*Sriman as Raghava's brother
*Delhi Ganesh as Raghava's grandfather
*Tarun Arora as Minister Shankar
*Kabir Duhan Singh as Bhavani, Shankar's brother
*Anupama Kumar as Radha, Kaali's mother
*Yuvasri Lakshmi as Pappa, Raghava's niece
*Bhanu Balasubramaniam as Raghava's grandmother
*Aathma Patrick as Murthy
*"Myna" Nandhini as Durga
*Sunita Gogoi as Dhivya
*Priyanka Nalkari as Moshika, Dhivya's sister
*Ashok Pandian as Dhivya and Moshika's father
*Meerabi as Dhivya and Moshika's mother
*R. N. R. Manohar as Shankar's friend
*Sampath Ram as Aghori
*Ajay Ghosh as a corrupt cop
*Chetan Pandit as Abhisekh
*Gabriella Sellus
Production
Following the success of 'Kanchana 2' (2015), Raghava Lawrence confirmed that more films in the horror comedy series would continue to be made. In August 2015, he announced a film titled 'Naaga', which he would direct himself, and the film was widely reported to be the fourth film in the 'Muni' series. He subsequently moved on to work on two other films, 'Motta Shiva Ketta Shiva' (2017) and 'Shivalinga' (2017).
Lawrence revived the project in August 2017 and revealed that he was finishing the script. The regular supporting cast of Kovai Sarala, Manobala, Sriman and Devadarshini were retained. Sun Pictures, who had recently produced who had previously produced 'Enthiran' (2010), agreed to produce their film, marking their second production. In late September, the following actresses were added to the project: Oviya, following her popularity on the Tamil reality show 'Bigg Boss', Vedhika from the first film, and newcomer Nikki Tamboli.
The shoot of the film began in Chennai during the first week of October 2017. Nivetha Joseph was the costume designer for this film. The movie was released on Good Friday in 2019.
Music
Raghava Lawrence selected Anirudh Ravichander to compose the music to this film. When he was unable to compose the music for this film, Lawrence signed a deal with DooPaaDoo.com which is owned by lyricist Madhan Karky. It was revealed that the film will have songs from six independent music directors throughout the DooPaaDoo.com platform, but later Raghava Lawrence unilaterally changed his stance to engage Saravedi Saran with 2 of the film's songs, while other songs will be composed by Sekar Sai Bharath, Jessie Samuel (who earlier sung one of the songs in the film 'Jarugandi'), Bharath Madhusuthanan and the duo of Raj Thillaiyampalam-Kapilan Kugavel. The background music was composed by Thaman, who earlier composed for director's previous Kanchana and Kanchana 2 film.
Reception
The film performed well at the box office, In spite of negative reviews. The film received negative reviews from audiences, Comparisons of Kanchana Series 1 & 2. The dubbed Kannada version titled 'Kanchana 3' was panned by critics. Film Companion South wrote, "In theory, I am a fan of mixing humor and horror. I just wish they worked more on the writing. I can live with the non-existent craft in these films, but is it too much to ask a horror-comedy to have some quality horror and some quality comedy?"
Release
The movie was released on 19 April 2019.
References
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