Kousalya Krishnamurthy

Kousalya Krishnamurthy (Aishwarya Rajesh), the daughter of Krishnamurthy (Rajendra Prasad), a farmer, is highly fascinated to cricket. In her childhood, Kousalya spots tears in her father's eyes when India crashes defeat in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Hence, she determines to become an international cricketer to get back the smile on her cricket-loving father's face. At the age of 11, she joins the local cricket team in the village who are mostly her school seniors when everyone appreciates her talent of off-spin technique getting wickets. Parallelly, she also earns the wrath of many villagers for playing cricket with boys, which Krishna Murthy does not care and supports his daughter. Right now, Kousalya appears for team selections. She gets rejected but does not give up. She works hard and gets selected in the [India women's national cricket team|Indian women’s cricket team]. At present, Kousalya moves for training at National Cricket Academy Bangalore, where she is humiliated by seniors due to internal politics, and even the coach demotes her to a large extent. However, the entry of a new coach named Nelson Dilipkumar (Sivakarthikeyan), an ex-Indian cricketer, develops the team’s spirit and gets the players ready for the upcoming T20 world cup. Nelson discovers spin bowling capabilities of Kousalya and trains her in the right path. He also locks horns with the committee and ensures that Kousalya’s presence in the world cup. Meanwhile, Krishnamurthy faces a tough time with agriculture, and unable to repay the debt of bank, ends up being in a rift with the bank manager (Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao). At one point, Nelson decides to rest Kousalya for the league matches as a strategy to hide her talent and give a surprise to opponents, which makes her down. Ultimately, Kousalya is selected in the semifinal against the strongest team, Australia. At the same time, Krishnamurthy’s house is occasioned by the bank; hearing it, Kousalya becomes anguished when Nelson motivates her to make her father proud by winning the match. During the match, Kousalya bowls a hat-trick and again bowls well leading to India’s win. At last, she is declared as Woman of the Match, awarded with Rs. 5 lakhs when she gives an emotional speech describing the situation of farmers in the country. Finally, Krishnamurthy feels proud of his daughter.

K. S. Rama Rao, the presenter of the film, saw the trailer of Kanaa on the sets of World Famous Lover and decided to remake it in Telugu. The remake, titled Kousalya Krishnamurthy, was shot in the surrounding areas of Rajahmundry.[5]

The official teaser of the film was released on 18 June 2019 by Sony Music South.[6] Two months later, the official trailer was released on 19 August 2019 by Sony Music South.[7]

The film was released theatrically on 23 August 2019.[4]

Kousalya Krishnamurthy
Soundtrack album by Dhibu Ninan Thomas
Released	22 June 2019 (2019-06-22)
Recorded	2019
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	21:16
Label	Sony Music India
Producer	Dhibu Ninan Thomas
Dhibu Ninan Thomas chronology
Kanaa (2018) Kousalya Krishnamurthy (2019) Kombu Vecha Singamada (2019)
External audio Audio Jukebox on YouTube

The film's soundtrack was composed by Dhibu Ninan Thomas, who composed the original film. All of the film's tunes were reused from Kanaa.[8]

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