Kanithan

A reporter who gets arrested realises that he is a victim of a fake degree certificate racket, and decides to track down the person responsible for misusing his identity.

Cast

Atharvaa Murali

as Gowtham Ramalingam

Catherine Tresa

as Anu

Karunakaran

as Balaji

Tarun Arora

as Thura Sarkar

K. Bhagyaraj

as Gowtham's Neighbour

Aadukalam Naren

as Ramalingam

Aadhira Pandilakshmi

Y. G. Mahendran

as CEO Chandrasekaran

Manobala

as Madhan

Anil Murali

as Inspector Jerald

Reviews

timesofindia

N Santhosh, the director of Kanithan is a former assistant of AR Murugadoss, so it is not surprising that the film bears resemblances to his guru's films. The framework of the plot — the hero trying to discover the villain's identity even as the villain is trying to track him down — is similar to th...

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