Rajiv Menon started as an ad filmmaker and continues to be one – despite directing movies like Kandukondein Kandukondein. But is it any good?

MENON began eyeing the big screen when he shot the brilliantly beautiful Bombay for Mani Ratnam and obviously thought he could do better. Well, we all know he couldn’t.

His first film, Minsara Kanavugal (even more atrocious as the dubbed Sapnay), was a self-indulgent cotton candy of riotous colours, inducing diabetes in the most hardy of cinemagoers. A lot of money sank with that first effort, but maybe it was (if you feel particularly generous) well spent, because Rajiv got a grip on himself and came up with Kandukondein Kandukondein (KK).