Anwar

Name of the Movie: Anwar
Cast : Prithviraj, Prakashraj, Lal, Mamta Mohandas
Directed by : Amal Neerad
Produced by : Rajesh Zacharia
Story by : Amal Neerad, Unni R.
Music by : Gopi Sundar
Review by : Khan M. Jahangir

Anwar - The total Prithviraj Show

Amal Neerad - Prithviraj team’s Anwar is an average action movie that can satisfy Prithvi’s fans. The movie’s theme resembles to the storyline of Don Cheadle’s ‘Traitor’.  As we all expected the movie has all Amal Neerad elements such as slow motion walk, SUVs, Beach-side visuals, Jackets, Unexpected u-turns etc. I like to call it a director’s movie than calling it a hero’s movie. Many scenes give us the golden memories of Big B. Prithviraj did well and he succeeded in making us all to think that he is the only person who can handle the character ‘Anwar’. 

Storyline

The movie starts with the visuals of Coimbatore bomb blast and the arrest of Babu Sait [Lal]. Babu Sait is a suspect in the bomb blast case and a special team under Stalin Manimaran [Prakashraj] is working to found Babu Sait’s hands behind the blast. Anwar [Prithviraj] who is arrested for Hawala case joins Babu Sait’s team in jail and he became the most trusted and obedient right hand of Babu Sait in no time. Anwar plans and execute two more bomb blasts. Babu Sait introduces Anwar to Basheer bhai [Sampath]. Basheer bhai chose Anwar for another important yet dangerous project. But Anwar is haunted by his flashback and that is the suspense factor of the movie.

 The scripting is the biggest negative of the film. But with direction, Amal Neerad tried to overcome the downbeats of the script. The movie is visualized in the same genre as he did his first movie Big B. Prithvi did well as Anwar. Another positive factor of the movie is music. Gopi Sundar created an enchanting backdrop and impressive soul for the movie with his superb background score. The songs of the movie are already hit chart busters. The action has been very well choreographed by Anal Aras. The editing delivers the required punch and the camera is brilliant especially the jail scenes, blast scenes and the action sequences. Prakashraj, Lal, Salim Kumar and Mamta did well. The movie is an action packed powerful entertainer. Considering Anwar with Big B, the dialogues are lacking the punch. 

Rating 3.1 out of 5