Aanegan - Tamil cinema going, going, gone.....

ANEGAN - Tamil cinema going,going,gone........

Cast - Dhanush , Amyra Dastur, Aishwarya Devan, Ashish Vidyarthi, Mukesh Tiwari, Thalaivasal Vijay, Jagan and many more

& Crew - S/SP/Dir - K.V.Anand, D.O.P - Om Prakash, Music - Harris Jayaraj, Edit - Anthony

Producers - Kalpathi S Agoram, Kalpathi S Ganesh, Kalpathi S Suresh

What's wrong with Tamil cinema and it's so called big names! Why do they keep dishing out one crap after another calling them films. Is their imagination simply drying out or is it sheer arrogance on their part which keeps them repeating the same mistakes time and again?? Honestly these days every Friday is Friday the 13th a horror release saga for Tamil cinema and its millions of viewers. Anegan is no better. Once again director K.V.Anand churns out a stupid premise based on reincarnation and actor Danush and co simply follow like lambs to the slaughter. Does Danush even read Tamil scripts these days? If he had read this one in detail then this film would have been a shelved project. Even while watching the rushes Danush should have stormed out in sheer disgust of ever agreeing to do such a film. What a come down for this talented actor from Shamitabh. Just look at this premise - The story is all about reincarnation. Narrator of the 3 sequels is Madhu (Amyra)who features with Danush in all 3 sequels.

Sequel 1 Samudra - Murugan (Danush) Love saga- Set in Burma 1942. Players in the present - Ashwin (Danush) and Madhu. The usual romantic interlude set in exotic postcard locations. The poor Tamil fisher boy (Maryan) falling for powerful and rich Burma chief of police etc. The only thing different from normal Tamil films is a chase within the crowded refugee ship headed by the COP to catch the hero and the heroine. In this part Jagan as Danush's pal and his lady love play a part which really does nothing of value. This sequel is so predictable and ends in  "damp" squib.  

Sequel 2 Place Chennai 1987- Kali (Danush) & Kalyani (Amyra) Here once again a rowdy Kali  falls for Kalyani a middle class brahmin girl. I have lost count of the number of times this has happened in Tamil cinema -The brahmin fixation syndrome. In this sequel extensive usage of madras 'bashai' (lingo) , usual quota of adiyal violence (kuthu, kolai etc) and the now popular 'Danga Maari Oodhari" are the major highlights.

Sequel 3 - Ashwin (Dhanush) & Madhu (Amyra) - Place - Chennai- Present. Apart from Interludes of the present in between during the 2 previous sequels Ashwin who is a hardware engineer who has recently joined a computer gaming company headed by Karthick (yesteryear actor) and Madhu who mistakes him to be from not 1 but 2 previous births and falls for him prepares you for the idiotic, illogical path the director is planning to take u thro the next 2 hr and 40 mins. We also have share of psychological drama, therapy sessions and hallucination creating drugs etc! Believe the director has freaked out to such an extent that you feel resigned to this total torture of a film.

& the climax One should see the visuals of this unbelievable climax to even believe that a such absurd and hilarious climax could even be conceived even in a children's film leave alone a adult adult film! This film is a poor rehash of so many films that half way through i even lost count of the number. It lacks logic, authenticity, or any kind of credibility which is associated in making of a film.

Danush - What a come down from Shamitabh - I am talking only about his performance and nothing else. Danush looks more like a disinterested and jaded viewer rather than than the lead actor in this film.

Amyra Dastur - She is the fair skinned lass an import from the North of India. She does her bit! What more can u do with a role like this expect to make the best use of it.

Karthick - An English speaking Thambi Ramaiah!

Ashish Vidyarthi - For a change a good cop with a villainous looking scar on his cheek! Lot of English dialogues! 

Rest also ran

D.O.P - Visuals very pleasing to the eye but so are the visuals in Discovery  & National Geographic channels.

Music - One song hit we can simply leave the rest.

Bottomline - After 4 layers of reincarnation the director K.V.Anand was still searching for the birth of a premise for this film!

A quote - " A film so bad that i eagerly waited for the intermission; Post interval I simply wanted the advertisements to go on and on ......... "

My Rating - 1/5 +.5 for the tenacity of the viewers to watch such films. Total -2/5 

Until Next Time

Director Haricharan

13/2/2015