Suriya's Anjaan movie review

The much awaited Tamil movie Anjaan hit theatres on Friday. Before we tell you the reasons to watch or not watch the movie, let's take a look at the production crew.

Directed by N. Lingusamy

Produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur, N. Subash Chandrabose

Written by N. Lingusamy, Brinda Sarathy,

Starring Suriya, Samantha, Vidyut Jamwal

Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja

Cinematography Santosh Sivan

Edited by Anthony

Production company Thirrupathi Brothers, UTV Motion Pictures

Plot: The film is set in Mumbai and has Suriya essaying dual roles, including that of a gangster, Raju Bhai. He works along with Vidyut and one day, finds himself locking horns with Manoj Bajpai. Directed by Lingusamu, the film also has Samantha playing Suriya's love interest and Chitrangda Singh in a special song.

Here are things you must know before you book your tickets

• This is Cinematographer Santosh Sivan's first collaboration with director Lingusamy
• Watch out for two item songs one featuring Maryam Zakaria, Suriya and Vidyut Jamwal and another with Manoj Bajpayee and Chitrangda Singh
• Suriya sports two looks in the movie
• Parts of the movie have been shot in Mumbai, Panchgani and Chennai
• Suriya suffered a minor ligament tear in his knee during a stunt sequence after a stuntman weighting 120kilos fell from a height on his leg.
• The makers also made some brisk pre-release business. Sun TV bought the television rights of the movie for a whopping Rs 16 crores
• Abirami Ramanathan, owner of Abhirami Mega Mall, holds the rights to distribute the film in Chennai.
• According to latest reports all the tickets have been sold out soon as advanced booking was thrown open which itself is a record in Tamil cinema
• The film will hit 37 screens in Chennai and 1400 worldwide (including the Telugu version)
• Anjaan is the first Indian film to have a 100% digital release
• In a joint venture between Hungama Digital Media Entertainment and Gameshastra, a game based on the movie titled Anjaan Race Wars was developed by Vroovy. The same company had created Kochadaiiyaan games too.
• In a landmark move, the copyright of the movie is protected through digital cinema projection across the world.

Check out the movie trailer to get a peek into the story

Check out the audience reaction below. Here comes the Twitter Review

#Anjaan review:avg 1st half & mass interval excepted twist terrible 2nd half.Yuvan BGM,Surya acting,Santhosh sivan cinematography was good

— Jones DJ (@jonyDJsam) August 15, 2014

Haters before giving #Anjaan review atleast go near to the theaters

— Anjaan Day (@RVmaddy) August 15, 2014

#Anjaan review : 1st half : intro , action n before interval super . 2nd half : fast but some low space with script,overall good.3.5/5

— IndianFilmtrade (@IndianFilmtrade) August 15, 2014

#Anjaan review : 1st half : intro , action n before interval super . 2nd half : fast but some low space with script,overall good.3.5/5

— IndianFilmtrade (@IndianFilmtrade) August 15, 2014

Behindwoods only replied +ve for what #UTV has paid, the only online cinema portal where #Anjaan may gets +ve review

— Sir Rohit (@itsjackstweetup) August 15, 2014

Seeing all these live #Anjaan review tweets from all over, is like following a cricket match's score on cricinfo. Intriguing :)

— Kaushik LM (@lmkmoviemaniac) August 14, 2014

Mark my words : TOI lata srinivasan gave 3.5 stars fr flop #settai film nw same gonna happen fr #anjaan paid review

— Vignesh (@Vicky_VjMsd) August 15, 2014

4/4 #Anjaan Movie Review-3.5/5 Negatives-Second half could have been better

— TamilCinemaFansClub (@TamilMovie_Fans) August 15, 2014

@suriya_fan @SuriyaSFC 3/4 #Anjaan Movie Review-3.5/5 Suryas dialogue delivery makes crowd go berserk.Superb actionsequences&twists

— TamilCinemaFansClub (@TamilMovie_Fans) August 15, 2014

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— Anjaan (@SuriyaSFC) August 15, 2014

#Anjaan 3/5 from cinema lead.They gave only 2.5 for Singam2 http://t.co/wvMr33IRim

— Anjaan Mania :-) (@itz_naga) August 15, 2014

Once again a cool review by @sidhuwrites for #Anjaan. Spoiler free http://t.co/EFUtdCNllN

— Rajasekar (@sekartweets) August 15, 2014

#Anjaan the movie of mass n class dnt believe in haters review go n watch in theaters wit evrybdy itz a Independence day treat for all

— john selvakumar (@SESOSJ) August 14, 2014

From what i hear from overseas, #Anjaan is termed as "Average".Will watch in the morning and review it.

— Trollywoods (@Troll24x7) August 14, 2014

#Anjaan review http://t.co/EgGNnfWcD4 . Good one! (Y) #ConfirmedHit @Suriyadaa @suriya_fan

— AKA (@ImAfilmmaverick) August 14, 2014

Review 3 - #Anjaan Yuvan major plus.. Surya nice.. Santhosh Sivan visuals vera range.. Nothing else. Skip it

— SRT--My Hero:-) (@shriktweets) August 14, 2014

Exclusive Malasian Review :#anjaan (2.5/5 )He watched Anjaan at the premiere show at Cathay Cineplexes, Malaysia. Source @Daniel271093

— Thala55 (@Thala55Official) August 14, 2014

#Anjaan boring 1st half.. All scenes are predictable... Review from oversease... so far film is flop

— VIJAYARANGAN (@VIJAYARANGAN2) August 14, 2014