Anjaan

My review: Anjaan

When the top two, Vijay gives a "Jilla" and Ajith, a "Veeram", would the third in the line Suriya lag behind. He goes down all guns blazing (quiet literally at that !) with his Lingusamy directed "Anjaan". You would know that there is something seriously wrong with a film if no one laughs at the "director-intended" comedy scenes but the whole theater is in raptures during the "director-conceived" so-called "mass" scenes. Movie is so bad that even Suriya who was successful in improvising a pathetically written  "Singam 2" into somewhat palatable outing with his histrionics fails to even salvage a modicum of credibility this time.  

Writing is that bad and terrible that it is hard to describe. Writing is more about trying to fill in the gaps in between few average songs and generous dose of action sequences. 15 minutes that Lingusamy criminally wastes post interval starting from the Brahmanandam's "so-called" cameo (conscientiously without any disrespect to the term "cameo") up-till the end of the bromantic speech between the two lead male protagonists interspersed with a dance medley ( serious creative drought evident here) is one of many such con-act that the makers have pulled off robbing the viewers of their precious time and money. The movie would have well gotten over in 20 minutes and still it would have been excruciatingly bad and boring. 

  When is the last time when every scene, every dialogue and even the locations (who would have not thought about the Golconda fort for a climax showdown) are guessable to ridiculous extent. The "so-called" twists and turns are not just down right silly but infantile to the extent that one can't but laugh at the silliness of it all. Right from the start to the finish not even a second that you feel that there is some sincerity, leave alone creativity. I dare challenge anyone to enlighten me at least one frame that is original.

Trying to catch up with your contemporaries is good but falling into the same stinky pit that they have recovered from is foolishness. Vijay and Ajith seem to have learnt their lessons (in spite of such dreadful Jillas and Veerams now and then) realizing that content is the king and they are just mere mortals scouting for better scripts and makers. But Suriya seems to have regressed from the days of " Kakka Kakka", " Ghajini" and "Ayan" following the freak success of his "Singam" and its sequel. He is not convincing at all as a Mumabi based gangster in this flick, may be an offshoot of poor writing and direction or his own disinterest. 

After her disastrous career so far in Tamil industry Samantha has taken recourse to skin show. Her histrionic abilities are as much as the cloth covering she gets in this movie. Vidyuth Jamwal is wasted in a hackneyed role. Each and every north Indian actor who is part of this movie has terrible lip-sync giving a feel of watching a poorly dubbed movie (even otherwise you a get a feel of watching a poor-man's Telugu masala movie). 

Usual solace in a Lingusamy movie, the songs too are poor this time. None of the songs composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja strike a chord with the audience. His background score is platitudinous. This movie don't deserve a cinematographer of the stature of Santhosh Sivan. He seems to have acknowledged that and has strictly and selectively redone what he did in "Thuppaki". 

On the whole, "Anjaan" is one of the most hackneyed movies of the year, comical for all the wrong reasons. 

Bottomline: A reviewer's dream of shredding a movie to pieces.

1/5