Any subject Mani Ratnam picks up, he adds his flavour of screenplay and emotions to it. If Anjali proved then about the sensitive issues he could deal with children, Kannathil Muthamittal, the story of a child of Sri Lankan Tamil parentage adopted by Indian parents, who desires to meet her biological mother in the midst of the Sri Lankan Civil War, was well received and also criticalyl acclaimed.
The movie released in the year 2002 and Keerthana Parthiban, the daughter of noted actors Parthiban and Sita won the National award for the Best Child Artist. It’s passed 14 years and the little girl has turned now big and this is what she looks like now.