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Ajit skids
Cast: Ajit Kumar, Meera Jasmin, Raghuvaran, Sitha, Jaiprakash Reddy, Fefsi Vijayan.
Director: N Maharajan
 It seems to be the season of cops, after the season of ‘dons’ with every second hero aspiring to play the man in police uniform! The latest on the list is Ajit who plays Paramaguru, assistant commissioner of police (ACP), in his Deepavali release ‘Anjaneya’. But aspiring to play a character is one thing and making a success of it, another!
What ‘Anjaneya’ suffers from is a weak script, a narration that goes off the tangent many a time, and too many characters making their entries with nothing substantial to do, particularly in the second half of the film.
Added to that is a performance that would definitely not make Ajit look back with pride. Weak dialogue delivery, bad voice modulation, almost no body language, and aggressive postures not sufficiently backed by suitable expressions, all make the character of the ACP a very uninspiring one.
It centres around Paramaguru who's on a two-month waiting period before he gets his posting as ACP. The first part is about what transpires in the interim period, and the second half is aabout what happens when he gets his posting. There are the various rowdies lined up against the hero:
 'Vettu' Ramasamy, the local rowdy, who plonks himself in Paramaguru’s neighbourhood, indulging in acts of intimidation and murder. There’s the building contractor who bullies his workers. There’s the minister who boasts of five-lakh votes in his pocket. There’s ‘Periyavar’ wielding enormous clout, proudly proclaiming his proximity to the powers that be. There’s Shivamani ,’Periyavar’s' dreaded long-haired, tall and lanky hitman. And, of course, half-apdozen henchmen of each of the above mentioned. A formidable opposition one would have thought!
But Paramaguru, very easily and single-handedly, demolishes them with his fists and bullets - the script, of course, is terribly one-sided here. Paramaguru nearly loses his job, too, but defends himself in the courtroom and after a bit of dramatics, manages to convince the judge about his suitability for the job. And when Paramaguru is not fighting, he’s romancing
Divya.
The scene of a widow, and her son who is the only eye-witness to a murder, who are promised protection by the ACP, but the son is killed because the ACP does nothing about it, is one of the few touching scenes in the film, with Sitha and Mohan enacting their parts well.
Neither does the Ajit-Meera first-time pairing generate any chemistry on the screen, nor is Jasmin impressive. There's a surprising 'item' number by 'Kummalam' fame Rathi but if the audience expects a sizzling number they’ll be terribly disappointed. For it’s a demure, refusing–to-reveal Rathi here.
Raghuvaran sports this ghostly look throughout. Jaiprakash Reddy as ‘Periyavar’ performs the way one would expect a typical villain of Telugu films to do - melodramatic, with a booming dubbing-voice to boot. From a director who had done such a good job with ‘Captain’ Vijaykanth in ‘Vallarasu’, one did't really expect such mediocre fare!
Malini Mannath
Published on 11th
Nov, 2003
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