Aan: Men at Work (2004)

DCP Patnaik and his team's fights against corrupted politicians and mafia rule Mumbai city. However their faith in law and order is tested with serious outcomes.

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 | mob | violence | toilet | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

4 June 2004 (India)

Also Known As:

Aan

Filming Locations:

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$35,748

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

149 min 165 min (original theatrical) 178 min (premiere)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The role of Vikram Singh which is portrayed by Shatrughan Sinha was actually offered to Amitabh Bacchan who refused because of date problems as he was shooting for the film Khakee at same time.

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Connections

References State of Grace (1990)

User Reviews

Stars Galore, Inaction.

In a span of few movies, including the last one "Satta", Bhandarkar has gotten a reputation as a good director, albeit he is not in the same league as a Varma. The movie is loaded with "Stars" some of them good some of them not so good as in Akshay Kumar and Suneil Shetty who will never know what acting is as long as they are gainfully employed. Irfan Khan, here is an actor who I think is born to portray "Bhai" the Mumbai equivalent of "Don". He is typecast in roles like "Pran" was in the yesteryear movies and rightfully so. There is plenty of action, but the flaw I see is a poor script and Screenplay with few gems. I think Madhur Bhandarkar is good in a documentary style movies like "Chandini Bar", "Satta" where his real talent is-in other words this is a "bummer from a Helmer" the caliber of Bhandarkar.