Raju ‘Bhai’ & Chandru head a thriving gang in Mumbai taking on & dismantling who ever come their way with their might. However when the story of their success reaches the ears of the dreaded don, Imran Bhai, they face his inevitable wrath. It is now up to Krishna, the brother of Raju Bhai, to identify the culprits responsible for the fate suffered by the duo and exact revenge on them.
Language:
Tamil
Running Time:
171 min
Rating:
U
Release date:
15 August 2014
Directed by:
N. Lingusamy
Produced by:
Siddharth Roy Kapur
N. Subash Chandrabose
Written by:
N. Lingusamy
Brinda Sarathy(Dialogues)
Starring:
Suriya
Samantha
Soori
Rajpal Yadav
Manoj Bajpai
Brahmanandam
Music by:
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Shot by:
Santosh Sivan
Editing by:
Anthony
Distributed by:
UTV Motion Pictures

What’s Hot

  • It is a Surya show all the way as he scores with his monumental screen presence & charisma. In addition to this Samantha is captured in all her glory in wonderfully designed costumes. Her charming expressions bring howls from the audience and she has proved in this film that she has what it takes to get noticed even in a hero-oriented commercial movie.
  • Yuvan is ‘instrumental’ in holding together the movie with his appealing background score that uplifts the mood of the on screen action and accentuates the energy built up in the scenes glorifying Suriya and Vidyut Jamwal.
  • The stunts from Silva deliver up and above what is demanded by the high voltage gangster clashes. The fight sequence in a hotel room starring Vidyut Jamwal has the actor performing his best and the interval block featuring Suriya is right up there as well.

What’s Not

  • The casting of Hindi speaking actors, to upkeep the authenticity of this Mumbai based script, has spelt doom for the talkie portions of the movie with visibly annoying lip-sync. The repetitive dialogues and abundant close up shots aggravate things further.
  • Soori & the Commissioner are totally under used. Also, there is very little time devoted to showing how Raju & Chandran thrive in their business. It looks like these parts have been edited out mercilessly in order to shorten the running time.
  • The crucial latter half of this typical revenge drama is locked down in a hopeless struggle between haphazardly placed songs and flashback sequences which pull the narration into a point of no return.
  • The plot is presented in a questionable fashion where few important knots (such as how Suriya survives) are not dealt with in a convincing way with few other trivial ones given precedence. This makes the build up to the climax, a routine affair which is preceded by a rather ungainly twist.
  • The movie features a sizeable share of skimpily clad women indulging in suggestive behavior and brutally violent murders accompanied by bloodshed which leaves one wondering how it managed to clear censors with a clean ‘U’ certificate. This is definitely not a movie to watch with the entire family.

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Verdict

Verdict Stamp

Given all the hype with the fresh hero-heroine pairing and a mouth-watering combination of a bankable commercial star & a proven commercial director, Anjaan disappoints on a Himalayan scale. It is mind-boggling to visualize how the experienced duo of Surya & Lingusamy believed in this script in the first place.