Aegan Movie Review

Aegan is the latest release of ultimate star Ajith Kumar. The film released with quite a lot of expectation, but the scenario looks like the film has bombed at the box office. The film is based on Mein Hoon na, which starred Shah Rukh Khan and Sushmita Sen, but however the director has failed to recreate the magic of Mein Hoon na. The success of the movie in Hindi largely depended on the music and the choreography of the movie. Nayanthara appears in low neck blouses and makes sure that her fans are not disappointed. But overall the movie has failed to impress.

Storyline

Leave your logical mind at home, and don’t ask doubts regarding story and plotline because none exists! It is Diwali time, and if you want to have a crackling time at the movies, then Aegan is fun unlimited (till the interval).

The Story- Shiva (Ajit) is a dare devil cop, whose introduction scene is in Hong Kong, where he single handedly kills a mafia chief, and proves as his father the commissioner Karthik (Nassar) says- “He is a one-man army, who trusts only his gun”

Now he is on a different mission- he has to fob off the international criminal John Chinnapa (Suman), who is trying to kill his former aide Ram Prasad (Devan), who has turned police approver. Ram is in hiding somewhere in Ooty where his daughter Priya (Piaa) is studying in a co-ed college. Shiva’s new assignment is to go undercover as a student to the college to protect Priya and also a lead to her father’s whereabouts.

Shiva joins the college where you have a funny principal (Jayaram) and a peon (Sathyan) and host of students including Priya’s lover Narain (Navdeep), who turns out to be our hero’s foster brother!

The best scene in the film is when Ajit meets Nayan for the first time and the way he bursts out into his favourite song Unne Paartha Pinpu Naan…(Kathal Mannan) ! It is a really a scream and a genuine gut-buster.

There are few other outrageous over-the-top depiction of Tamil film stereotypes like Jayaram, Cochin Haneefa and Sriman’s comedy scenes. There is some kind of chemistry between Ajit and Nayan in some stupid moments, which make you chuckle. Raju Sundaram has concentrated only on these one-liners, the silver lining in the film.Her make-up

In Main Hoon Na Farah Khan made Shah Rukh Khan lampoon conventional notions of macho heroism, but in Aegan, Raju strictly adheres to Ajit’s larger than life image. There are four long drawn out, well choreographed fight scenes where the hero fights a dozen baddies and comes out unscathed.

The music of Yuvan is ok, thanks to the picturisation of Raju Sundaram. The camera of debutant Arjunjena is eye-catching. Ajit is at his best but looks plump and stiff in some scenes where he need to be relaxed and natural (The Billa hang-over?)

Nayanthara looks perfect as Mallika, a role that fits her like a glove. Her make-up and costumes, especially the chiffon sarees and halter-neck blouses, rock. Piaa is promising. Jayaram as Principal and Haneefa as Ajit’s side-kick are a riot. But the same cannot be said about Suman who looks like a caricature with a weird wig.

Karzzz Movie review

Karzzz

Anupama Chopra, Consulting Editor, Films

A cartoon in a recent New Yorker magazine showed a director pitching a movie to a studio head. The director suggests: Let’s remake an old classic with worse everything. The pitch meeting for the new Karz must have been similar. Director Satish Kaushik’s Karzzz is Subhash Ghai’s 1980 cult film with worse everything. Let’s begin with the hero, Himmesh Reshmmiya. In the publicity interviews for the film, Himmesh has repeatedly declared that he should not be compared to Rishi Kapoor, the original film’s hero because while Rishi was a handsome star, he, Himmesh is not at all good looking. The humility is appreciated but stating the truth doesn’t change it.

Himmesh, despite intensive styling and waves of hair on his head, remains, an acquired taste. He continues to sing with his trademark nasal twang but the unkindest cut is that here he tries hard to act. The scenes in which he attempts to emote by narrowing his eyes and furiously moving his lips are pure comedy. His new heroine, Shweta Kumar redefines vapid. So Urmila Matondkar, who plays the murderous wife Kamini, must carry the burden of acting for all three of them. She delivers admirably, pursing her lips, widening her eyes and giving us five expressions when only one would have sufficed.

This Olympics of bad acting is constantly interrupted by brain dead Himmesh songs. A sample of the lyrics: If loving you is wrong, I don’t want to be right, Tandoori Nights, Tandoori Nights. Giving the songs stiff competition are the dialogues. At one point, Himmesh playing the rock star Monty is trying to convince Kamini that he is the reincarnation of her long dead husband. He says he will give her intimate details that only a husband can know and proceeds to say:Jab tum kiss karti ho tumhari aank hen band ho jaati hain.Monty presumably knows many people who kiss with their eyes open.

The original Karz was a superbly orchestrated melodrama. Ghai created moments that still have the power to make your hair stand on end. Watch the climax when Kamini, played by a wonderfully elegant and icy Simi Garewal, becomes unhinged and admits that she killed her husband.

The new Karzzz is a clossal joke. At six or eight reels, it would have been a wonderful unintentional comedy – a so bad that it’s good film to add to classics like Manoj Kumar’s Clerk and Sheetal’s Honey. But at 18 reels, Karzzz is prolonged torture, steer clear.