Film: Anegan
Cast: Dhanush, Amyra Dastur, Karthik, Jagan
Rating 3.5
What's fascinating about Dhanush is that he doesn't hesitate to experiment with the roles the scripts have to offer. His performances seem to echo - forget how an actor should look, come have a look at what the actor does. Turn of the decade has gifted him an assortment of roles he so carefully bundles up with the right amount of perfection. 'Anegan' which swings toward this direction is the next exciting film from K. V. Anand & Co.
After many a less than gum chewing performances from today's (most) leading ladies, Amyra Dastur, wakes up in the form of a new entrant who we definitely can expect worthiness from. On-screen, though, both of them retain copious charm of school kids, we are pretty sure they are adults.
Go to 'Magadheera' in your head for the past life connection, if you will, but do come back to 'Anegan', a collection of short stories of two people in love separated by various other people. The first bit opens up in Rangoon, Burma; and the second in Vyasarpadi, Chennai. The difference between a seemingly exotic location in Burma and a song supposedly set in the neighborhood of Chennai is a simple announcement of the crowd cheering. Yeah. "Danga Maari Oodhari" is all you want to do in the movie hall.
Meanwhile like a grilled mushroom and chicken cheese sandwich the movie has too many ideas stuffed into one narrative. Dhanush and Amyra are loving and dying, a birth with a similar fate again and again, until the runtime ends and the makers believe that they have to finish the film before the next show begins. Karthik, a surprise deal is still a hit with the ladies. His Tamil is scented which is his USP, which is also mocked by Dhanush in a scene that steals the last minute exhaustion from the audience.
Harris Jayaraj disappoints none. Not K. V. Anand. Not the audience here. "Danga Maari Oodhari" is an explosion. Great energy. If it wasn't for this particular song and the plot in Vyasarpadi, the movie would have gone down a few points. Moreover Dhanush is entertaining in this bit, as Kaali, and as Murugappan too in Burma, but in a role that requires him to be himself (an urbanite), he misses the target. Kaali is the kind of person you'd find in every college. Fearless and sincere. Murugappan is also fearless and sincere. Hey that's exactly how Ashwin, the urbanite, is as well. Well, Dhanush may be Anegan in 'Anegan', at the end of the day, he's still one of the few actors who doesn't let the audience wither away.
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