Anjaan - Surya - Samantha - Yuvan - Santosh sivan - Lingusamy

[vithagan]

Same old commercial formula movie, nothing new..but still oru thadava paarkalam..

[hattori_hanzo]

Very bad reviews in Twitter. Vijay and Ajith fans are having a field day. Padam paathavan, paakkadhavan ellarum serndhu kalaikaranga. Sodhappittiye Lingu!

[BM]

Trailer gave an unwanted little hope. Taking a predictable story with very predictable screenplay for 2 hrs 50 mins is asking for trouble.

Singam > Singam 2 > Maatraan > 7am Arivu >>> Anjaan

[Russelltgw]

Trailer gave an unwanted little hope. Taking a predictable story with very predictable screenplay for 2 hrs 50 mins is asking for trouble.

Singam > Singam 2 > Maatraan > 7am Arivu >>> Anjaan

Bt still wat i felt was Maattraan was better than Singam2.............had the 2nd half had a sensible screenplay movie cud have survived

[Russelltgw]

Telugu la kooda deposit gaali pole kazhuvi oothranga

[arulraj]

Rajini , kamalukku appuram Surya thaannu sonna Mr.Lingu ippadi kaala vaari vittuttaan; 4,5 story reject panneeyaedaa.....GVM happy annachi....

[arulraj]

ANJAAN MOVIE REVIEW...Behindwoods Review Board

On the lines of Baasha Bhai and Vishwa Bhai, here comes a powerful Raju Bhai who enjoys killing and also finds time for some love. A simple story revolving around a revenge spree is what Anjaan is all about. The dazzling Suriya looks dashing and smart. The Neymar like hair do, toned down costumes and exquisitely built body are all thoroughly convincing.

Santhosh Sivan's yellow DI throughout the film gives the much needed look to the Mumbai based underworld film. There was no darkness in the compositions, to bring out the brevity of the script. All the gloss and shine goes with the art direction and shot divisions. Anthony sets a pace and rhythm to this almost 3 hour long commercial film. Lingusamy has written the film based on the 'present to memories' filled non-linear narration to detail a suspense attempted story. Dialogues to a great extent are acceptable except for one that keeps coming along.

The Tamil mass audiences want popcorn films. Essentially, the film has to get over before the eatable gets over. Anjaan takes its own sweet time to start and wrap. Though not much time is spent on how Raju and Chandru became a name to be feared, the Raju Bhai phenomenon is given the typical cliched hype almost till the second half.

Samantha is cute and apt. The love portions almost work. Yuvan's background score gives varied colors. The siren used in the BGM during the build-ups is an experimentation. Special attention could have been given to the lip-syncs.

Starting from the perspective of the challenged Krishna who goes on the picaresque search of his lost brother, the story dwells too much on the already experienced cinematic liberties like the act of love, friendship and revenge.

The pre-interval stunt sequence needs a special mention. Stunt Silva has made it look live and realistic. Thanks to Suriya, Vidyut gets his slice of stunts in the flashback. Dissolved characters, unfurnished villains, stereotypical narration and song placement duds the flow of the film. The comedy portion of Brahmanandham forcefully put post-interval catering to the Telugu audience, is a speed breaker to the already lurching movie.

The predictable climax makes the whole product less impactful. One palpable connect towards the denouement is a life saver. Anjaan goes to the list of, 'Could have been better' movies.

Verdict: Suriya and Anjaan, let down by the screenplay!

( 2.0 / 5.0 )

[uruzalari]

Hope at least Surya looked deadly in black and black with shades because only very few can carry it well on screen according to experts.

[Mohan kumar.]

Hope Surya change his path soon.

We don’t see the actor Suriya we’ve seen in films such as “Pithamagan”, “Perazhagan”, “Kaaka Kaaka” and “Rakht Charitra” anymore. He’s not dead. He’s probably gone on a sabbatical. And the Suriya we see now is a star. He’s actor Suriya’s alter ego, his second self, constantly trying to spearhead the star cinema culture in Tamil filmdom. As a result, in “Anjaan”, we witness the battle between Suriya the star and Suriya the actor. Incidentally, the film features Suriya in a double role. One’s a star and the other is the actor. But since this is star cinema, Suriya the star, obviously, is given more importance and eventually wins the battle.

Suriya once didn’t hesitate to experiment. He didn’t mind playing a buck-toothed, dark, ugly hunchback Chinna in “Perazhagan” or a con man in “Pithamagan” or the grim police officer in “Kaaka Kaaka”. The Suriya we saw in these films may not have been a star then (or maybe he was), but he was equally loved by audiences as much as he’s today. Isn’t that what actors really wish for at the end of the day, especially when most say they are incomplete without the love of their fans?

“Anjaan” comes after Suriya’s recent blockbuster “Singam 2”, and the makers were under the assumption that the success streak will automatically continue sans any effort. So, they present a gangster revenge drama, mostly inspired from several Indian gangster films. It’s completely shot in Mumbai with a host of Bollywood actors who are excruciatingly awful in their roles. There’s a love track. Samantha romances Suriya, dances with him in a bikini and the crowd goes berserk. There are punch dialogues and they’re repeated in every fight scene. There’s comedy too, but it hardly evokes laughter.

Look at the irony of Tamil cinema and it’s pathetic. Films here can’t have many dialogues in Hindi because audiences won’t understand. When a film is set in Mumbai, and it’s about gangsters, Hindi speaking actors from Bollywood are chosen because they are apt for the milieu, which I think makes sense. But they are not allowed to dub in their own voices as they can’t speak Tamil. So when these actors appear in the film, you get the feeling that you’re watching a Hindi dubbed film in Tamil. This is precisely why Manoj Bajpayee, one of the finest actors in Indian cinema, always looks like a clown in Tamil films.

Vidyut Jammwal was last seen in Tamil film “Thuppakki”. He played a cold-blooded terrorist. The best part of his role was that his dialogues were in Hindi with a voiceover in Tamil. It worked when the film was watched by audiences. He was accepted and appreciated. It was not the same case in “Anjaan”.

These are the kind of small compromises commercial cinema directors should be willing to take. Lingusamy is reluctant to change and he will probably learn from this film why the formula he used few years ago doesn’t work anymore. You still can’t be hoping for a film to do well because it features a star. But Lingusamy is an intelligent filmmaker. He understands art-house cinema, supports off-beat films, otherwise he wouldn’t have distributed films such as “Goli Soda” and “Inam”. Maybe it’s his second self, the alter ego, which controls the director in him, and that explains why he makes garbage like “Anjaan”.

Suriya gives an earnest performance in “Anjaan”, and there’s absolutely no doubt it. But he’s let down by a weak script, terrible performances by the rest of the cast and an extremely lengthy narrative. He should stop living in the world of star cinema, exit from it and do films that will do justice to his potential.

http://movieroundup.in/anjaan-star-cinema/

[Russellmvr]

Hope at least Surya looked deadly in black and black with shades because only very few can carry it well on screen according to experts.

Having my day. I know what you mean