Movie Review: Aan - Men At Work * Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Shatrughan Sinha, Raveena Tandon, Preeti Jhangiani, Lara Dutta, Jackie Shroff, Irrfan Khan, Vijay Raaz, Rahul Dev

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'Aan - Men At Work' - 'Mayhem!'

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Credits
Producer/s:	Firoz Nadiadwala
Director:	Madhur Bhandarkar
Cast:	Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Shatrughan Sinha, Raveena Tandon, Preeti Jhangiani, Lara Dutta, Jackie Shroff, Irrfan Khan, Vijay Raaz, Rahul Dev
Music:	Anu Malik, Akbar Sami, Jatin
Lyrics:	Sameer, Tejpal Kaur, Dev Kohli

The film has nothing new to offer (the oft-repeated elements like extortion, mindless killing, encounters, the politician-underworld nexus, the tough lives of cops, and the clash of ideologies, is all there) except for a few dialogues that are very pro the police force.

For the change the Commissioner of Police (Om Puri) is not corrupt as happens in most Bollywood films. One also has to praise some of the action sequences especially the one between Akshay Kumar and Rahul Dev in which the former throws the latter from the 20th floor of a building. The action scenes in the latter half of the film are good but the ones in the first half are elaborate and slow, at times getting on your nerves.

There is a bit of realism in the film but unfortunately it is masked by the over-use of commercial elements like item songs, and the romantic number picturized on Akshay and Lara Dutta. We wonder why the romantic track between Akshay and Lara was there in the film (Lara is wasted in this flick)!

This is definitely a Firoz Nadiadwala film (senseless commercial fare), not a Madhur Bhandarkar film. Those who have enjoyed his previous flicks, 'Chandni Bar' and 'Satta' will swear by it.

Now for the story. Actually this is what the film lacks! To make up for this there is high voltage drama in many places.

Mumbai is ruled by three people, Home Minister Manik Rao (Manoj Joshi), Underworld Don, Yusuf Pathan (Irrfan Khan) and a high-profile businessman, Gautam Walia (Jackie Shroff), all hand-in-glove with each other.

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