{"id":564180,"date":"2025-11-11T22:46:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/?p=564180"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:46:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:16:01","slug":"kinaru-meaning-the-well-is-a-heart-warming-tamil-childrens-film-releasing-this-childrens-day-november-14th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/kinaru-meaning-the-well-is-a-heart-warming-tamil-childrens-film-releasing-this-childrens-day-november-14th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"KINARU meaning \u201cThe Well\u201d \u2013 is a heart-warming Tamil children\u2019s film, releasing this Children\u2019s Day (November 14th)"},"content":{"rendered":"
KINARU meaning \u201cThe Well\u201d \u2013 is a heart-warming Tamil children\u2019s film, releasing this Children\u2019s Day (November 14th). Produced by Madras Stories, the film continues the studio\u2019s vision of creating powerful independent cinema while nurturing new technicians, fresh talent, and young filmmakers. After critically acclaimed titles like Burkha and Lineman \u2014 both celebrated in festival circuits, with Burkha winning 5 international awards \u2014 Kinaru marks their next step in championing original storytelling rooted in emotion, culture, and childhood innocence.<\/span><\/div>\n
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THE STORY:<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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The film follows four nine-year-old children who are constantly chased away for playing in someone else\u2019s well. Tired of being beaten and humiliated, they decide to dig their own well on their land. But the protagonist\u2019s grandmother believes their family is cursed with water and firmly stops them. How the children learn about identifying groundwater, save money for tools, convince adults, and fight their fears \u2014 while winning the grandmother\u2019s trust \u2014 forms a moving and adventurous journey of hope, friendship, innocence, and determination.<\/span><\/div>\n
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AWARDS & FESTIVALS<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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* Award Winner \u2013 Pegasus Film Festival 2024<\/span><\/div>\n
* Winner \u2013 Award of Merit \u2013 Accolade Global Film Competition<\/span><\/div>\n
* Winner \u2013 Award of Merit \u2013 Accolade Global Film Competition (Special Mention)<\/span><\/div>\n
* Winner \u2013 Award of Merit \u2013 IndieFEST Film Awards \u2013 Film Feature<\/span><\/div>\n
* Winner \u2013 Award of Merit \u2013 IndieFEST Film Awards \u2013 Direction<\/span><\/div>\n
* Winner \u2013 Award of Merit \u2013 IndieFEST Film Awards \u2013 Cinematography<\/span><\/div>\n
* Competing at Chennai International Film Festival 2024 \u2013 World Cinema Competition<\/span><\/div>\n
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CAST & CREW<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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Director: Harikumaran<\/span><\/div>\n
Cinematographer: Gautham Venkatesh<\/span><\/div>\n
Music: Bhuvanesh Selvanesan<\/span><\/div>\n
Editor: K S Gowtham Raj<\/span><\/div>\n
Sound Mixing: Daniel (Four Frames)<\/span><\/div>\n
Sound Design: Kishore Kamaraj<\/span><\/div>\n
Executive Producer: Srini Suryaprakasham<\/span><\/div>\n
Producers: Suriya Narayan & Vinod Shekhar<\/span><\/div>\n
Production Company: Madras Stories<\/span><\/div>\n
Runtime: 110 minutes | Language: Tamil | Subtitles: English<\/span><\/div>\n
Publicity Designs: Madan<\/span><\/div>\n
PRO: Nikil Murukan<\/span><\/div>\n
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KINARU meaning \u201cThe Well\u201d \u2013 is a heart-warming Tamil children\u2019s film, releasing this Children\u2019s Day (November 14th). Produced by Madras Stories, the film continues the studio\u2019s vision of creating powerful independent cinema while nurturing new technicians, fresh talent, and young filmmakers. After critically acclaimed titles like Burkha and Lineman \u2014 both celebrated in festival circuits, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[69346,7668,7750],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-564180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-slideshow","tag-kinaru-the-well","tag-kollywood","tag-tamil-cinema"],"read":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564191,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564180\/revisions\/564191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564180"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=564180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}