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Anjaan Movie Review
- 8/17/2014 8:41:40 PM
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Synopsis: Krishna comes to Mumbai in search of his brother Raju, who, he learns, paid a price for choosing to be a gangster. Unperturbed, he continues in his search. Does he find Raju and what's the mystery behind his disappearance?
Movie Review: When a film announces loud and clear all that it wants to do is be in service of its hero, and make him as larger than life as possible, we accept it and all that we expect from it is to entertain us. But when it takes almost three hours to narrate its all-too familiar story with easily predictable twists and underwritten characters in a non-engaging fashion, it becomes a painful watch. And, Anjaan is just that.
The film begins with a secretive Krishna coming to Mumbai to locate his brother. He visits a few places where his brother's acquaintances could be found and learns that his brother Raju is Raju Bhai to the people of the city. Raju and his friend Chandru had been gangsters with growing clout but earn the wrath of Imran Bhai, an underworld don. When Krishna persists in knowing how his brother had gone missing, he manages to catch the attention of his brother's enemies. Can he tackle them and get to the bottom of the mystery?
Anjaan basically revolves around a couple of plot twists — one, a big reveal around the interval point and another before the climax. But the way the film is structured to lead to these twists is underwhelming. Given that he wants to keep the big bang at the half way mark,
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