Aan: Men at Work (2004)

Crime is at its highest peak in Mumbai with it split in three ways. Walia has one-third, Manik Rao has one-third and Roshni has a third of the Mumbai territory. The crime rate rises with ... See full summary »

Director:

Madhur Bhandarkar

Writers:

Hriday Lani (dialogue), Sanjeev Puri (screenplay),

Stars:

Shatrughan Sinha, Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Shatrughan Sinha	...	Sr. Inspector Vikram Singh
Akshay Kumar	...	DCP Hari Om Patnaik
Sunil Shetty	...	Sub. Insp. Appa Kadam Naik
Paresh Rawal	...	Const. Khaled Ansari
Jackie Shroff	...	Gautam Walia
Irrfan Khan	...	Yusuf Pathan
Om Puri	...	Commissioner Khurana
Rahul Dev	...	Yeda Bhai
Raveena Tandon	...	Roshni Verma
Lara Dutta	...	Kiran
Preeti Jhangiani	...	Janki
Vijay Raaz	...	Waman
Rajpal Yadav	...	Apte
Manoj Joshi	...	Manik Rao
Ravi Kishan	...	Raghu Shetty

Storyline

Crime is at its highest peak in Mumbai with it split in three ways. Walia has one-third, Manik Rao has one-third and Roshni has a third of the Mumbai territory. The crime rate rises with more smuggling, trading and illegal activities soaring. Meanwhile, the CBI work constantly to stop this. Inspector Vikram is a failure of a police in life and tends to stick with the easy way. Appa is an encounter specialist who goes after the henchmen instead of the bosses, he has a wife Janki with whom they have a son. Const. Khaled is a happy-go-lucky cop. The three men's and the whole Crime branch's fate changes with the arrival of their new boss. DCP Hari arrives and realizes that the CBI are not serious and that the rules, regulations, and the very reason for joining the police force, have been thrown to the wind. With his girlfriend Kiran whom he'd promise he would marry on his mind, he does not first like the promotion to DCP and transfer to Mumbai, but later accepts it. He soon watches the ...

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Plot Keywords:

police | police station | courtroom | corrupt judge | love interest | 

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Genres:

Drama | Action

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

4 June 2004 (India)

Also Known As:

Aan

Filming Locations:

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

149 min 165 min (original theatrical)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Amitabh Bachchan was the director's first choice to play Sr. Inspector Vikram Singh.

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Connections

References State of Grace (1990)

User Reviews

A shame for Indian movies

Though I like a lot Indian movies - I really was ashamed for the director of that one. Not only the story is boring but the movie is packed full of stolen action scenes.

If you know John Woo's MI-2 with Tom Cruise you know what I'm speaking of. Even the pigeon scenes were copied. The difference: If John Woo does such a thing it looks cool. It is a picture of art- in that movie it just looks ridiculous. But Woo's scenes are not the only ones copied badly - another one was directly taken from another great movie: Equilibrium

Have you ever seen a man shooting with his eyes closed?

Well watch it and you will laugh...

Summary: If you don't have the budget and a good director then don't try to make such a movie! Do another "Monsoon Wedding" which we liked a lot.

Rating 1/10

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