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ANNARTH
- (Reviewed By Komal Nahta)
Director:
Ravi Dewan
Producer: Ravi Dewan
Music: Anand Raaj Anand
Lyrics: Dev Kohli
Starring: Sunil Shetty, Preeti Jhangiani and
Sanjay Dutt
RATING:
1/10
 Suryoday
Productions' Annarth (A) is a routine action
film with a story pieced together to accommodate
as many fights and stunts as possible. A gangster
with a golden heart (Sunil Shetty), who works
for his brother's (Ashutosh Rana's) underworld
gang, gets his friend (Gautam Rode) admitted
in the outfit, under the mistaken impression
that he (the friend) is a sharp-shooter. However,
the friend is actually an undercover cop who
has been planted by the police to unearth the
mafia racket in the city and nab the criminals.
The gangster gets killed at the hands of his
over-ambitious brother who wants to become a
bigger don. This follows the murder of another
close friend (Vinod Kambli) of the gangster
at the hands of the gangster's brother. In an
action-filled climax, the undercover cop, assisted
by a sharp-shooter-turned-shaayar (Sanjay Dutt),
kills the gangster's brother and his boss (Tinnu
Anand).
Since
action is the catchword, the story and screenplay
(Imteyaz Hussein) are mere matters of convenience.
Often, incidents are illogical and childish
and sometimes, even proper incidents have been
handled with immaturity. For instance, why does
the undercover cop wait till the end to bump
off the criminals when he has unearthed the
racket much earlier? Although he is a police
officer, it almost looks like he had to have
a personal vendetta agenda (revenge for the
murder of his gangster friend who got him inducted
into the gang) to eliminate the crime lords
and that his own findings of the racket were
immaterial.
 The
girlfriend of the undercover cop, who is also
the sister of the gangster and the aspiring
don, revolts when she is told that her beloved
is a sharp-shooter. But when he tells her the
truth about his identity (cop), she leaves him
instead of being thrilled to bits. Yes, the
reason for her calling it quits is her fear
that he had come to eliminate her brothers,
but then, if she is so against criminals, how
could she expect a police officer to be pro-criminals?
Rather than her dilemma of being torn between
the love for her brothers on the one hand and
for her boyfriend on the other, what comes across
is that she, the heroine of the story, is selfish
and has double standards.
Making
the sharp-shooter-turned-shaayar a know-all
is yet another very convenient link - the characters
don't have to break their heads over anything,
they can simply dial the shaayar for all information!
The dying of the gangster, who is the hero of
the film, while the shaayar, who has a guest
appearance-like role, remains alive till the
end also looks weird. Dialogues are commonplace.
 Sunil
Shetty acts ably as the gangster with a golden
heart but his role is a bit sketchy. His death
was unwarranted and will not go down well with
the audience. Sanjay Dutt looks disinterested
in his role of a sharp-shooter-turned-shaayar.
Gautam Rode has a good physique which has not
been exploited properly. As an actor, he shows
some promise in the undercover cop's role.
Preeti
Jhangiani is fairly good in emotional and dramatic
scenes but needs to brush up her act in comic
and light scenes. Ashutosh Rana is very natural
as the aspiring don and leaves a mark with a
polished performance. Johny Lever's comedy is
hardly funny. Tinnu Anand is good. Cricketer
Vinod Kambli makes an ordinary acting debut.
Rajiv Thakker gives a truly likeable account
of himself. Shweta Menon and Hiralal Thakkar
are alright. Razak Khan has been wasted in a
friendly appearance.
 It
is the action director in Ravi Dewan that's
more at work in the film than the director in
him. Although his stunts and action scenes show
that a lot of effort has gone into them, his
direction is very ordinary. Music (Anand Raaj
Anand) is passable. Only 'Akhiyan na mila' and
'Dil hai deewana' are somewhat hummable. Song
picturisations are functional. Camerawork (Suresh
Suvarna) is alright. Production and other technical
values are fair.
On
the whole, Annarth is too ordinary a fare to
make much box-office sense. Action for front-benchers
is its only trump card amidst so many negative
points.
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RELEASE
DATE: 1ST November
2002
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