Name: Gandhi Kannadi
Genre: Action
Released: 2025-09-05
Cast: Bala, Balaji Sakthivel, Archana, KPY Bala, Balaji Sakthivel

Synopsis

Gandhi Kannadi

In 2016, Kathir owns an event management company and is eager to outdo his competitors. He's in love with Geetha, but rarely gets time to spend with her or appreciate her due to his relentless pursuit of wealth. Gandhi "Gandhi" Mahaan and Kannamma are a happily married elderly couple who eloped from their village to marry against their families' wishes and settled in Madras. Even now, Gandhi and Kannamma share a deep love for each other that's enviable to those around them. Kannamma, who works as a housemaid, desires a grand 60th wedding celebration like her boss's and shares this wish with Gandhi. Gandhi wants to fulfill Kannamma's dream and meets Kathir to arrange their 60th wedding ceremony. The grand wedding costs around ₹52,00,000 (equivalent to ₹7.5 million or US$78,000 in 2023), so Gandhi, a zamin, takes his ancestral documents in Coimbatore to Kathir to pay for the arrangements, having only managed to save ₹2,50,000 (equivalent to ₹360,000 or US$3,800 in 2023) from his watchman job PF. Gandhi, along with Kathir, Geetha, and Madhan, travels to Coimbatore to see the land and sell or mortgage it. However, they discover a construction is already underway on the land, and Kathir offers to help Gandhi by filing a case to retrieve the land. It turns out Gandhi's brothers forged and sold the land to builders.

Release: 5 Sep 2025
Run time: 126 min
Language: Tamil

Cast & crew

BA Bala Cast BA Balaji Sakthivel Cast AR Archana Cast KP KPY Bala Cast VI Vivek–Mervin Composer

Reviews

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Cinema Express Narayani M

2025-09-05

While it does truthfully depict the struggles of the working class, Gandhi Kannadi never truly harbours the strength it possesses in showing the parallels of love amid changing times. That would have been a story to tell for a lifetime. Unlike Gandhi and Kannamma who experience a multitude of growth and changes, Kathir and Geetha’s conflicts are never resolved until the end. Instead, the team moves around in circles, trying to make a stance politically, and the perils surrounding it—justifying neither of these angles. My angst also stems from the makers building a towering screenplay replete with all the right elements and smashing it themselves with unnecessary death-baiting.

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