ANJAAN - NO 'JAAN'!

ANJAAN – NO’JAAN’!

The Crew:

S/S.P/Direction: N.Linguswamy

D.O.P: Santhosh Sivan

Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja

Producer: Ronnie Screwvala

& the Cast

Actor/Actress	Character
Surya Sivakumar	Raju Bhai
Samantha	Jeeva
Vidyut Jamwal	Chandru
Manoj Bajpai	Imran Bhai
Soori	Raja
Rajapl Yadav	Mahendran
Dalip Tahil	Dilik Harma
Murli Sharma	Murli
Rest not even worth a mention!

Movie Genre: 

Adventure	Political	Documentary	Horror	Thriller
Comedy	Social Drama	Animation	Romance (Pretence)	Detective
Drama	Musical	Disaster	Masala	Children
Historical	Science Fiction	Fantasy	Biography	Youth

MOVIE REVIEW

Raju Bhai (Surya) and Chandru (Vidyut Jamal) are buddies in crime. Typical ‘kollywood’ style small time Mumbai dons who spend all their available time in killing people. In typical ‘K’ style a new guy takes over as Mumbai police commissioner. Supposedly as per the director the new commissioner is as tough as nails but in my opinion he turns out as the dumbest police officer on can conceive of ! After all this top cop allows his daughter Jeeva (Samantha) to be repeatedly kidnapped and how! You have to see to believe! The director Linguswamy devotes the entire first half to 1. Establish Raju and Chandru’s friends for like kind of relationship. The depiction of which is so boring and repetitive as this has been shown a thousand times in Tamil/Hindi films. 2. Raju and Jamal’s ‘Goonda Giri’ if one can call that. This feels like watching a dumb spoof. 3. Raju falling for the forbidden fruit the commissioner’s daughter Jeeva (Samantha) and this feels like watching 2 adolescent and immature kids playing a game of boy friend and girl friend. 4. a couple of stupid kidnapping scenarios where the BG score is nonstop and never ending. 5. Finally treachery and deceit where the director decides to kill Chandru and all of you by now have well and truly realized why! 6. Then there is the poor man’s comic Suri who would have been better off eating parotta’s at home than torturing us as a Mumbai taxi driver! Off course a couple of item numbers and cabaret have been added as UTV had a lot of money to dole out!

The 2d half is even more pathetic as Krishna aka Raju Bhai returns to do a la ‘CHUN CHUN KE MARUNGA’! In this half he brings in a clean shaven & bespectacled Surya walking with a stick as a handicapped individual. And no one except the viewers are able to recognize that Raju and Krishnan are one and the same! Isn't this director simply brilliant! What did this director think while conceiving this premise? That all of us are stupid idiots and morons and will watch any kind of crap he can concoct! Anyways let me stop ranting and fuming like Nagesh in Thiruvillaiyadal and finish reviewing this 170 mins of a disaster of a film. Raju then goes on a one man rampage spree as picks the bad guys and one by one and knocks their guts out. He uses all the available kollywood techniques and weapons as he bashes, stabs, gores, spikes, spears, slashes, gouges, shoots and kills all those treacherous gang members who were responsible for killing Chandru his dear friend. He starts all over again as he bashes, gores, spikes, slashes, gouges, shoots and kills all the rest of the bad ‘actually poor’ guys for kidnapping Jeeva (Samantha) for the third time in a row in this film. Who by the way is in a ‘bhurka’ almost throughout the second half of the film. Reason being she does not want to reduce the intensity of the pent up anger within surya and reduce the gore and liberal flow of blood while he dealt with the evil doers. Finally Surya kills the dreaded ‘IMRAN bhai’ a ‘Dawoood’ kind of a don whom the director has portrayed as Mumbai’s version of the godfather! P.S .Surya also uses his charm, charisma, guile and with the help of 100 call taxi’s he nonchalantly convinces the rival ‘adiyals’ to change sides and this time not a drop of blood is shed!

What worked for me: NOTHING

What irked me most: THE FILM

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Finally a quote: It amazes me that filmmakers still dare to make such films, and viewers still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a lunatic!

Bottom Line:  It’s high time ‘Surya’ and all the the other so called ‘super’ lead heroes gave something back to the Tamil viewers by choosing subjects with meaningful content! After all over the years they have earned considerable amounts of fame and fortune from them! They simply owe it to them even if they consider it as charity . Definitely 1 or 2 non ‘masala’ films will hardly create a dent to their personal fame or fortune!

My Rating: 0.5/5 (for the sake of technicians!)

WOW!	GREAT	DIFFERENT
MASALA	SO-SO	A STINKER

Until Next Time,

Director Haricharan

21/08/2014