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10 June 2005 (India) moreTagline:
He who comes from hell is not afraid of hot ashes!Plot:
Anniyan is about Ramanujam alias Ambi who suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder. Ambi (a lawyer), Remo(a suave supermodel) and Anniyan (a vigilante who wreaks havoc on people who cheat, loots or conned Ambi). full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Anniyan is what every movie wants to be: An entertainer moreCast
(Credited cast)| 'Chiyaan' Vikram | ... | Ramanujam 'Ambi' Iyengar / Remo / Anniyan | |
| Sada | ... | Nandini Raghuram | |
| Vivek | ... | Chari Singari | |
| Prakash Raj | ... | Police Officer | |
| Yana Gupta | ... | Special Appearance | |
| Nasser | ... | Psychiatrist | |
| Kalabhavan Mani | ... | House Owner | |
| Nedumudi Venu | ... | Parthasarathy Iyengar | |
| Saurabh Shukla | ... | Break Company Owner | |
| Cochin Hanifa | ... | The Person Who Stops His New Car | |
| Charlie | ... | Wastrel | |
| Mohan Vaidya | ... | Krishna Iyengar | |
| Shanmugha Rajan | |||
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Amarasigamani | ... | Police | |
| Raju Sundaram | ... | Special Appearance | |
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Aparichit (India: Hindi title)Aparichitudu (India: Telugu title) (dubbed version)
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Imported fighters as well as martial artists from all over the state were used in the multi-opponent fight scene. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: In a moving train, lights from outside the train are supposed to move through a compartment but here, during the journey to the festival, the lights just appear and disappear as if they are being switched on and off. moreFAQ
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Shankar and Vikram have done a fantastic job. Director Shankar is turning into a professional high-quality perfectionist. Actor Vikram, charged with a National award for Best Actor (2004) is on a roll. His performance is classy and comparable to many great actors of Tamil cinema.
Anniyan is definitely worth watching at least once. Forget about the critics who list past movies from which various aspects of Anniyan (like concept, theme, stunts, music) was inspired (or copied). It is easier to make the original than to make a copy as the original serves as a hard benchmark. It is hard to replicate something while maintaining audience interest. Shankar does this job to a more-than-satisfying extent.
Besides, when great directors like Steven Spielberg copy past movies (War of the worlds) with the confidence of providing the viewers something worthwhile to watch, I don't see anything wrong in Shankar's Anniyan. Yet, Anniyan is NOT a complete copy and it is definitely MORE than the sum of its parts.
Anniyan has stunts that were never before seen in any Tamil movie. Shankar has provided the opportunity to the (uneducated mass of) Tamil audience of watching world-class stunts in a movie that they can understand (as against most Hollywood flicks that have the action but make no sense to them). So what, if it has been copied? Matrix Reloaded being largely mystifying and unexplained, even to most native-English speakers, could not justify to the (masses of the) Tamil audience as to why all the action exists!!??. But that is not the case with Anniyan.
To sum it all up, Anniyan is what a movie should really be. A classy entertainer. Good songs, great cinematography, wonderful (although sometimes unbelievable) stunts, great acting performance, nice comedy and classic direction. Watch the movie without prejudice and be entertained.