Bricolage of wonders

After the success of Billa in 2007, Ajith and Nayanthara pair once again for AEGAN which is ace choreographer Raju Sunduram’s first directorial venture. This movie is inspired from bollywood hit MAIN HOO NAA directed by Farah khan. Aegan is released worldwide on 25Th October 2008. Now the question arises “did Aegan do justice to main hoon naa”? The answer is definitely a NO.

The movie starts off with Ajith as a cop shooting down criminals. He sports a beard with a paunch. He is the son of police commissioner played by Nasser. Nasser a seasoned campaigner plays his role well. Their main task is to catch hold of an underworld Don played by Suman. Suman sports a comical look. The director tries to portray the villain on lighter side but that doesn’t seem appealing. Lots of scenes involving him irate the audience. A man from his underworld crew  wants to break free. He is provoked to be the app rover after his wife is shot dead by Suman’s men. They try to kill him, but he escapes from police and Suman.

The only means for police to catch hold of Suman is this app rover. So both police and Suman’s men’s search for him in desperation. The only way police could catch this man is to trace his daughter (Piya bajpai) studying in college. So Ajith is forced to play a college student. How Ajith catches this guy forms the rest of the story.  The intensity shown by Suman’s men in tracking down this guy seems to get lost in the college backdrop which was well handled in the Hindi version. At times you tend to forget that Suman’s henchmen are in trace of the app rover.

Nayanthara plays ajith’s his love interest as a chemistry professor. She is the real plus in this movie. Her outfits make the audience glue to the screen. Yuvan shankar raja lets us down with his music. Raju sundaram proves his mettle in dance sequences. The song odum varayil is pictured well.

Comedy scenes involving suman, Ajith, Haniffa and Satyan doesn’t make you  laugh. I don’t understand why Raju Sundaram did not remake scene by scene from Main hoon naa. Anyhow you have chosen the script from MHN then why the hell did you add your own ideas to it?

VERDICT: AVERAGE

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