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Aegan Review |
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Starring:
Ajith, Nayantara, Navadeep, Suhasini Mani ratnam, Jayaram,
Suman, Nasser, M.S.Bhaskar, Sriman
Direction: Raju Sundaram
Music:
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Production: Ayngaran International |
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We don’t really know if Raju Sundaram intended his directorial
debut to be funny, but it seriously is. I mean if you can’t
laugh at a villain with a funny-as-hell-wig uttering claptraps
with the seriousness of a chemistry professor to firangs and
the chemistry professor who dresses with the élan of
a stripper and sheds her clothes at the drop of a hat, you
probably are born without any sense of humor. And it’s
not all that. Despite the self-realization of his flourishing
paunch, Ajith quashes the beefy looking bad-men and handles
mean machines single handedly, matrix style - all to earn
the repute of a tough-police officer who is notorious for
his bad-temper.
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Aegan
is inspired from Main Hoon Na and the Malayalam flick
Olympian Antony Aadam and doesn’t definitely derive
anything from the Hollywood flick Back to School, as
claimed.
Ajith is Raju Sundaram’s version of an encounter
specialist, whose prowess is demonstrated with a shoot-and-deliver-a-punch-before-you-kill
scene in Hong Kong. He’s called back by his superior,
who is also his father, to trace a criminal’s
aide (Devan) who turned into a police approver and later
went into hiding fearing for his life after experiencing
the cops’ inability to protect him. Now when the
police intelligence discovers that Devan’s daughter
studies in a college in Ooty, they come up with a clever
idea of sending Ajith to the college as a student to
find the whereabouts of Devan from his daughter. Clever,
indeed!
With that saggy little plot and actors who try to flaunt
their acting skills with whatever little they can, Aegan
proves to be a mind-numbing fare with the only sigh
of relief coming between the intervals – the songs,
of course.
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Nayanthara pouts sexily throughout, is exposed liberally albeit
wrapped in a sari and an excuse for a blouse, and wears dangerously
revealing tank tops and tiger print minis during songs. Well,
after all, she is (over)paid for it but she seems to be in
need of some serious career advice if she chooses to survive
here.
What makes an actor like Jeyaram to take up a disgraceful
role, as that of a college principal, who plots with his attendant
to abet Ajith in his noble mission and thinks the explosive
chemistry teacher is born to please the protagonist, is a
mystery. Same applies to Nasser and Suhasini. Piya shows some
potential, but then what is the point?
Yuvan’s
background score ebbs and flows, but the songs are largely
passé. Ajith has indeed tried the best of his dancing
skills in the Freedom song. His charm is also irresistible,
but sadly lost in the dud effort.
If the movie
made you feel like you were watching Raju Sundaram’s
goofed-up performance in the movie Jeans, it’s not
entirely your fault. He is after all the director and has
influenced the entire cast’s dialogue delivery and
body language reducing them to laughing-stocks.
And if that’s
not enough, the end credit states ‘Aegan’s mission
continues’. Now, we only wish Raju is not planning
for a sequel or some such thing.
You
must thank the cinematographer Arjun jena and the costume
designer for maintaining the subtle tone of the movie without
which you would come out of the movie hall with a splitting
headache.
Verdict
- A futile mission
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