Star Cast : Hemachandran, Nandhana, Rajiv Krishna, Shanmugarajan, M S Bhaskar, Renuka, Thennavan, Bala Singh, Ajayan Bala
DVD Features: PAL All Regions
Subtitles:  Not Available
Banner : Minveli Media Works
Music : NR Rahnandhan
Director : Dhanapal Padmanabhan
Producer : Dr. Santhi Duraisamy

In a story that has myriad potential to be turned into a sappy and sentimental fare, Dhanapal Padmanabhan exercises restraint and presents an outsider’s look into the lives of characters. The way the plot is structured is neat and on the whole the subject is treated with sensitivity. The stories unravel based on the timeline of the mill’s closure and as the characters go about their lives, it slowly dawns on you that they are jobless for about a year – all this while pulling through financial difficulties.

The movie is dotted with actors who effortlessly slip into the skin of the characters they play. You learn that Dhanapal conducted a 30-day workshop preceding the movie’s shoot and that the movie has, for the first time in Tamil, a casting director – Shanmugaraja. All these efforts are pretty evident as the characters wade in and out and gather your compassion as they appear onscreen.  Krishnaveni is a film on mill workers and being the son of a mill worker, Dhanapal has the advantage of presenting it in a perspective mostly unknown to others.