Anniyan - my review

So, after making audiences wait for a long time, Shankar finally unveils his much hyped masterpiece.. and does it live upto expectations? To large extents, yes!!

The next 2 paras is full of spoilers as it has my story summary.. so skip it if you want to remain in suspense. And also sorry abt the English. I caught the night show and so am kind of groggy..


The story starts off potraying Vikram as "Rules" Ramanujam, a lawyer who ALWAYS follows the rules and tries his best to ensure that others do too. But then he finds that the general public doesn't really care for minor rules if their work gets done properly. So he becomes highly disillusioned and tensed up and thereby is born his "alter ego" Anniyan, who gives the capital punishment of death to all wrong doers based on the kind of punishment assigned for their crimes in Hell.


Sada is Rules' neighbour whom he has loved in silence for 7 long years. Finally after much prodding from Vivek (who plays his friend), Vikram proposes to her, only to be rejected. This almost drives him to suicide, thereby leading to the rise of Remo, a catwalk model who successfully woos Sada.

What is the connection, I can hear u asking. Well, Shankar says MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder). Intense mental tensions like that experienced by Rules leads to this, says Naser, playing a mind doctor. This is where logic starts breaking from reality. So now we have 3 personalities crowded into 1 guy and then its full steam ahead to the climax.

Vikram has done an excellent job of the task given to him. Personally, I felt that he doesn't look like a young model as Remo, but neverthless, he ahs come up with a good performance as all 3 avatars. I wouldn't say he has quite reached the heights Jim Carrey did in M,M and I but still he has done a good job. Sada does the job required of her quite amicably. Vivek is back to his best... with a lot of natural comedy. PrakashRaj as usual is brilliant, but I didn't quite accept the logic of his using different getups to investigate.

Shankar's direction is also excellent. A lot of innovative (some innovatively lifted from Hollywood) are used throughout the movie and the yadd a good touch. Songs are all picturised well but with unnecessarily extravagent sets. Choreography and cinematography were excellent as were the use of slow motion frames and the action sequences.

I was disappointed only with the BGM score by Harris Jayaraj. It rarely adds to what is going on in the movie. Also another drawback is the positioning of the songs. Man, in how many movies r u gonna make these same mistakes??

I realize that the above review is kind of disjointed, so I blame it on my sleep hangover.

Overall, forget the obvious logic and this is a brilliant movie. Include the flaws.. and it is still easily watchable at least once on the big screen. so go out and njoy!!

If only Kamal and ARR had been involved in this project!!

Score : 69/100

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Fav sport (to play) : Basketball (outdoors), Chess (indoors)
Fav comp game : Half - Life (till date)
Fav movie : The Matrix
Fav author : Michael Crichton

So what does this all amount to?? Nothing much you say?? well.. just wait and see!!

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