Anjathe
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Anjathe is a Tamil
drama film directed by Mysskin; starring Prasanna
and Narain
. The film opened to rave reviews. The song, 'Kattazha kannale kuthatha née enna' has topped the review charts and captured the hearts of many youngsters.
) and Kiruba (Ajmal Ameer
) are close friends living opposite each other in the neighbourhood. Satya is a rowdy, wasting his time drinking merrily and getting involved in fights. Though he and Kiruba passed college with a first class degree, Satya has no interest in joining the police force like his father. Kiruba studies hard to become a Sub-Inspector(SI), challenging Satya to do the same. Just a day before the exam, Satya decides to take up the exam as well, much to his friend's surprise and with little head start, passes the physical, written and interview, with the help of malpractices and influence from his uncle and becomes an SI. However, Kiruba doesn't make it through despite being straight forward; this creates a rift between the two.
Kiruba's father
lies to Satya that he has gone to Bombay, but Satya finds him in the local bar, having become a drunkard.
Parallel is the story of Daya (Prasanna
) and Loganathan (Pandiarajan), who extort money from businessmen through kidnappings. Before Satya became a policeman, he beat up Daya for molesting Kiruba's sister, though none including Kiruba know of this.
Satya gains fame by holding off knife
-yielding men who come to kill an injured man at a hospital
, though the man is killed later in the night. As a result Satya is drafted into a special task force to catch the gang members related to the crime. Daya and carry out two kidnappings, raping the victims on both occasions, and release them for ransom
money. Kiruba is beaten up by the police for a skirmish at the local bar; his father suffers a heart attack after getting his son back from the police station. At this point of time Kiruba is employed by Daya, mainly because the former is distraught and will fall easily to the lure of money and booze. In the third time however, the police are informed, but the kidnappers find out by chance and change the drop off point at the last moment. They give the police the slip, but narrowly avoid capture, with Kiruba providing shelter for them in his house. Kiruba joins along to get money for his father's angioplasty
, though he doesn't realize until its too late that he is doing illegal things and harming young children.
Meanwhile Satya identifies Daya from the characteristics, with a background check revealing that Daya was accused of raping his senior's wife in the army. Daya, Logu and their accomplices are again almost caught when the police
trace one of the accomplices' family. Daya kills his own man during this raid to avoid information being passed, and hatch a plan to escape to Bihar
in a poultry
van. Logu is killed by Daya, upon learning that the former had hatched a plan to kill him. However, to escape to the city outskirts
to rendezvous with this van, they hijack
the Inspector General's car with his two daughters inside. Switching soon to a disguised-dog van to get past checkposts with the two girls, Daya, Kiruba and another accomplice arrive at a sugarcane]] field. Satya recognizes Kiruba's voice from the ransom call he makes to the IG, and follows his sister from the hospital, who has been instructed to bring a bag full of cash from their home(kept there by Daya), to the sugarcane
field.
The plot to kidnap the IG's daughters is an elaborate ruse to divert the police force to the south of the city while they escape from the north. The special task force, who are in the south of the city, realize the plot and upon learning that Satya is alone in the north of the city, head in that direction.
In the sugarcane
fields Kiruba shows compassion towards the two girls, treating them softly. Upon hearing some noise in the field, Daya splits the group, doing so to meet up directly with Kiruba's sister who has the money-bag. He tries to rape her, but Satya intervenes and a fist fight ensures, but the special task force comes upon them, and kill Daya by setting it up as an encounter.
The two girls split and escape from the third accomplice
, only for one of them to be recaptured by him, but is let off being too tiring to carry. Kiruba and the third accomplice try to run away, with Kiruba's sister behind him. Just as he leaves her to escape, she reveals that she is in love with Satya and uses the situation to handcuff herself to Kiruba to avoid him from escaping. In the end Satya shoots Kiruba in self defense and to save one of the IG's daughters from being shot. The ending scenes of the movie show that Satya and Kiruba's sister get married and have a son, whom they name Kiruba.
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
drama film directed by Mysskin; starring Prasanna
Prasanna (actor)
Prasanna is an Indian actor in the Tamil film industry. He made his debut in Five Star in 2002, which was produced by Mani Ratnam. Apart from lead roles, he has also played supporting roles. His film Achchamundu! Achchamundu!, in which he starred alongside Sneha and American actor John Shea, was...
and Narain
Narain (actor)
Narain is an Indian film actor, who appears in Malayalam and Tamil films.- Personal life:Narain was born in Thrissur, Kerala to Malayali parents. His father is Ponnani Kizhakke Kalathil T.M.Ramakrishnan Nair and his mother is Shantha Nair...
. The film opened to rave reviews. The song, 'Kattazha kannale kuthatha née enna' has topped the review charts and captured the hearts of many youngsters.
Plot
Satya (NarainNarain (actor)
Narain is an Indian film actor, who appears in Malayalam and Tamil films.- Personal life:Narain was born in Thrissur, Kerala to Malayali parents. His father is Ponnani Kizhakke Kalathil T.M.Ramakrishnan Nair and his mother is Shantha Nair...
) and Kiruba (Ajmal Ameer
Ajmal Ameer
Ajmal Ameer is an Indian film actor, who works in the Malayalam and Tamil film industries.-Background:He was born in Aluva, Kerala. He studied medicine in National Pirogov Memorial Medical University in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, and had plans to open a hospital in future. Shortly after completing his...
) are close friends living opposite each other in the neighbourhood. Satya is a rowdy, wasting his time drinking merrily and getting involved in fights. Though he and Kiruba passed college with a first class degree, Satya has no interest in joining the police force like his father. Kiruba studies hard to become a Sub-Inspector(SI), challenging Satya to do the same. Just a day before the exam, Satya decides to take up the exam as well, much to his friend's surprise and with little head start, passes the physical, written and interview, with the help of malpractices and influence from his uncle and becomes an SI. However, Kiruba doesn't make it through despite being straight forward; this creates a rift between the two.
Kiruba's father
Father
A father, Pop, Dad, or Papa, is defined as a male parent of any type of offspring. The adjective "paternal" refers to father, parallel to "maternal" for mother...
lies to Satya that he has gone to Bombay, but Satya finds him in the local bar, having become a drunkard.
Parallel is the story of Daya (Prasanna
Prasanna (actor)
Prasanna is an Indian actor in the Tamil film industry. He made his debut in Five Star in 2002, which was produced by Mani Ratnam. Apart from lead roles, he has also played supporting roles. His film Achchamundu! Achchamundu!, in which he starred alongside Sneha and American actor John Shea, was...
) and Loganathan (Pandiarajan), who extort money from businessmen through kidnappings. Before Satya became a policeman, he beat up Daya for molesting Kiruba's sister, though none including Kiruba know of this.
Satya gains fame by holding off knife
Knife
A knife is a cutting tool with an exposed cutting edge or blade, hand-held or otherwise, with or without a handle. Knives were used at least two-and-a-half million years ago, as evidenced by the Oldowan tools...
-yielding men who come to kill an injured man at a hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
, though the man is killed later in the night. As a result Satya is drafted into a special task force to catch the gang members related to the crime. Daya and carry out two kidnappings, raping the victims on both occasions, and release them for ransom
Ransom
Ransom is the practice of holding a prisoner or item to extort money or property to secure their release, or it can refer to the sum of money involved.In an early German law, a similar concept was called bad influence...
money. Kiruba is beaten up by the police for a skirmish at the local bar; his father suffers a heart attack after getting his son back from the police station. At this point of time Kiruba is employed by Daya, mainly because the former is distraught and will fall easily to the lure of money and booze. In the third time however, the police are informed, but the kidnappers find out by chance and change the drop off point at the last moment. They give the police the slip, but narrowly avoid capture, with Kiruba providing shelter for them in his house. Kiruba joins along to get money for his father's angioplasty
Angioplasty
Angioplasty is the technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel, the latter typically being a result of atherosclerosis. An empty and collapsed balloon on a guide wire, known as a balloon catheter, is passed into the narrowed locations and then inflated to a fixed size...
, though he doesn't realize until its too late that he is doing illegal things and harming young children.
Meanwhile Satya identifies Daya from the characteristics, with a background check revealing that Daya was accused of raping his senior's wife in the army. Daya, Logu and their accomplices are again almost caught when the police
Police
The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...
trace one of the accomplices' family. Daya kills his own man during this raid to avoid information being passed, and hatch a plan to escape to Bihar
Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
in a poultry
Poultry
Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of producing eggs, meat, and/or feathers. These most typically are members of the superorder Galloanserae , especially the order Galliformes and the family Anatidae , commonly known as "waterfowl"...
van. Logu is killed by Daya, upon learning that the former had hatched a plan to kill him. However, to escape to the city outskirts
Outskirts
Outskirts may refer to:* The outskirts of a city, also known as the rural-urban fringe* Outskirts, by the Canadian country rock band Blue Rodeo* The Outskirts, a 1933 Soviet film directed by Boris Barnet...
to rendezvous with this van, they hijack
Carjacking
Carjacking is a form of hijacking, where the crime is of stealing a motor vehicle and so also armed assault when the vehicle is occupied. Historically, such as in the rash of semi-trailer truck hijackings during the 1960s, the general term hijacking was used for that type of vehicle abduction,...
the Inspector General's car with his two daughters inside. Switching soon to a disguised-dog van to get past checkposts with the two girls, Daya, Kiruba and another accomplice arrive at a sugarcane]] field. Satya recognizes Kiruba's voice from the ransom call he makes to the IG, and follows his sister from the hospital, who has been instructed to bring a bag full of cash from their home(kept there by Daya), to the sugarcane
Sugarcane
Sugarcane refers to any of six to 37 species of tall perennial grasses of the genus Saccharum . Native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South Asia, they have stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sugar, and measure two to six metres tall...
field.
The plot to kidnap the IG's daughters is an elaborate ruse to divert the police force to the south of the city while they escape from the north. The special task force, who are in the south of the city, realize the plot and upon learning that Satya is alone in the north of the city, head in that direction.
In the sugarcane
Sugarcane
Sugarcane refers to any of six to 37 species of tall perennial grasses of the genus Saccharum . Native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South Asia, they have stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sugar, and measure two to six metres tall...
fields Kiruba shows compassion towards the two girls, treating them softly. Upon hearing some noise in the field, Daya splits the group, doing so to meet up directly with Kiruba's sister who has the money-bag. He tries to rape her, but Satya intervenes and a fist fight ensures, but the special task force comes upon them, and kill Daya by setting it up as an encounter.
The two girls split and escape from the third accomplice
Accomplice
At law, an accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime, even though they take no part in the actual criminal offense. For example, in a bank robbery, the person who points the gun at the teller and asks for the money is guilty of armed robbery...
, only for one of them to be recaptured by him, but is let off being too tiring to carry. Kiruba and the third accomplice try to run away, with Kiruba's sister behind him. Just as he leaves her to escape, she reveals that she is in love with Satya and uses the situation to handcuff herself to Kiruba to avoid him from escaping. In the end Satya shoots Kiruba in self defense and to save one of the IG's daughters from being shot. The ending scenes of the movie show that Satya and Kiruba's sister get married and have a son, whom they name Kiruba.
Cast
- NarainNarainNarain may refer to:* Narain , Indian actor* A.K. Narain, Indian historian* Narain Karthikeyan, Indian former Formula One and A1GP driver* Nicole Narain, American model and actress* Sunita Narain, Indian environmentalist and political activist...
as Sathyavan - PrasannaPrasannaPrasanna , is an Indian theatre director and playwright from Karnataka. He is one of the pioneers of modern Kannada theatre. He graduated from the National School of Drama . He founded Samudaya and gave a creative direction to Kannada theatre in the 1970's with other activists. Prasanna lives in...
as Deena Dayalan - VijayalakshmiVijayalakshmiVijayalakshmi is a common feminine given name in India.Notable people named Vijayalakshmi:* Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, an Indian diplomat and politician, sister of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru....
as Udhra - Ajmal AmeerAjmal AmeerAjmal Ameer is an Indian film actor, who works in the Malayalam and Tamil film industries.-Background:He was born in Aluva, Kerala. He studied medicine in National Pirogov Memorial Medical University in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, and had plans to open a hospital in future. Shortly after completing his...
as Kirubakaran - LivingstonLivingston (actor)Livingston is a Tamil film actor who usually plays in supporting roles. He is credited in his earlier films by the stage name Ranjan. His first starring role was in Poonthotta Kavalkaran . He started out playing villains and graduated to playing lead roles with Sundara Purushan in 1997...
as Masilamani - M. S. BaskarM. S. BaskarM. S. Bhaskar is an Indian actor. A former theatre artiste, he has appeared in supporting roles and as a comedian in Tamil TV series and more recently in Tamil films. He is probably best known for his performances in the series Chinna Papa Periya Papa and Selvi and in the films Sivakasi and Mozhi...
as Loganathan - PandiarajanPandiarajanPandiarajan is an actor who had played leading roles in many humorous Tamil films and currently plays supporting and comedy roles.-Personal life:...
as Logu - Snigdha AkolkarSnigdha AkolkarSnigdha Akolkar is an Indian actress and model. She has acted in several Hindi and Marathi television serials and in Tamil films. She is noted for her cameo song in the film Anjathe. She is also acting in the Hindi film Love U...Mr. Kalakaar!.-Filmography:-External links:*...
as the dancer in the workshop - PonvannanPonvannanPonvannan is an Indian film actor, who has played supporting roles throughout his career. He directed the award-winning film, Jamila. He is married to fellow actor, Saranya.- Tamil TV Serials -...
as the Assistant Commissioner Keerti Vaasan - Kuruvi as Satya & kirubha's friend
Box office
- The film was a commercial success grossing almost $2 million at the box office as per the charts published by behindwoods.com.http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-slide-shows/movie-1/top-ten-movies/tamil-cinema-topten-movie-anjathe.html
- Nemichand Jabak, the producer of the film, had spent nearly $1 million on Anjathey for its technical expertise.