Aan: Men at Work
Aan: Men At Work is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Madhur Bhandarkar featuring Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Shatrughan Sinha and Paresh Rawal in the leading roles, while Jackie Shroff, Raveena Tandon, Lara Dutta, Om Puri, Rahul Dev, Manoj Joshi and Irrfan Khan played supporting roles. The movie is about the life of a police officer fighting crime constantly.
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Directed by | Madhur Bhandarkar |
Produced by | Firoz A. Nadiadwala |
Screenplay by | Sunjiv Puri Manoj Tyagi |
Story by | Sunjiv Puri Manoj Tyagi |
Starring | Akshay Kumar Sunil Shetty Shatrughan Sinha Paresh Rawal Raveena Tandon Lara Dutta Irrfan Khan Om Puri Manoj Joshi Rahul Dev Jackie Shroff Rajpal Yadav Vijay Raaz |
Music by | Songs: Anu Malik Background Score: Franco Vaz |
Cinematography | Madhu Rao |
Edited by | Diwakar P. Bhonsle |
Distributed by | Base Industries Group, Friends Movies |
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Running time | 165 mins |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Plot
Crime is at its highest peak in Mumbai with it split in three ways. Gautam Walia, a ruthless businessman (Jackie Shroff) has one-third, Manik Rao, the Home Minister (Manoj Joshi) has one-third and Yusuf Pathan, a big-time goon (Irrfan Khan) has a third of the territory. The trio warns Raghu Shetty not to interfere with their business. Raghu pays no heed to their warning and ambushes Walia at a horse race. Walia is alive, but Pathan kills Shetty's man who carried on the hit. Shetty is then jailed. The crime rate rises with more smuggling, trading and illegal activities soaring. Meanwhile, the Detection Unit cops of the Mumbai Crime Branch work constantly to stop this.[1][2][3][4][5]
Inspector Vikram Singh (Shatrughan Sinha), who was a hero once upon a time in the crime department, now tends to handle the easy jobs. Appa Kadam Naik (Sunil Shetty) is an encounter specialist who goes after the henchmen instead of the bosses; he is married to Janki (Preeti Jhangiani) and they have a son. Constable Khaled Ansari (Paresh Rawal) is a happy-go-lucky cop and chews paan all the time. The three men's and the whole CBI's fate changes with the arrival of their new boss.
DCP Hari Om Patnaik (Akshay Kumar) arrives and realizes that the other cops are not serious and that no one is following the rules and regulations. Hari has a girlfriend, Kiran (Lara Dutta), whom he promises to marry. He is hesitant about his promotion as he thinks that this promotion is done deliberately to kick him out, but he learns to accept it. He witnesses the way the others treat the henchmen and orders them to be released. But during an encounter at a bar, the henchmen kill Khaled, making Vikram seek revenge.
He decides to join Hari and Appa and help him clear the city starting with Yusuf Pathan's younger brother, Baba "Yeda" Pathan (Rahul Dev) by killing him. After that, they arrest Yusuf Pathan, which puts a halt to small-time criminal activities in Mumbai. Simultaneously, Raghu Shetty replaces Pathan to run the illegal businesses which Pathan was handling. During the climax, Appa dies in a trap set by a corrupt officer Kelkar (Ajinkya Dev). Vikram and Hari track Raghu Shetty and a hawala trader named Hirachand Mehta at the Flying Club with the help of a tip given by Roshni Varma (Raveena Tandon), Walia's keep to Vikram. The police try to block the plane at the runway, but to no use. Finally, Hari damages the left wing and the back engine of the plane with a helicopter. The plane crashes into a hangar. Shetty and his goons try to escape, but are killed. Vikram kills Shetty. Hirachand is arrested and Kelkar's corrupt actions are caught by Vikram and Hari. If left alive, he will be bailed out by the lawyers, so Vikram shoots him.
The arguments in the court are in the favour of Walia and his men. During the break, Vikram and Hari threaten the corrupt judge to change his judgement. The judgement is in favour of the police and the case is closed. DCP Khurrana, Hari and Vikram walk out of the courtroom happily. Hari says that Mumbai is crime free. Vikram then shows a list of gangsters that had to be encountered by Appa, to which Hari agrees. He then meets Kiran who says that she is proud of him.
Cast
- Akshay Kumar as DCP Hari Om Patnaik
- Sunil Shetty as Inspector Appa Kadam Naik
- Shatrughan Sinha as Senior Inspector Vikram Singh
- Paresh Rawal as Constable Khalid Ansari
- Jackie Shroff as Gautam Walia, a renowned and corrupt businessman
- Raveena Tandon as Roshni Varma
- Lara Dutta as Kiran
- Preeti Jhangiani as Janki Naik
- Om Puri as Police Commissioner Khurrana
- Irrfan Khan as Yusuf Pathan
- Ravi Kishan as Raghu Shetty
- Rajpal Yadav as Apte
- Manoj Joshi as Home Minister Manik Rao
- Rahul Dev as Baba "Yeda" Pathan
- Milind Gunaji as Ajit Pradhan
- Ajinkya Deo as Kelkar
- Xing Yu as Goon of Raghu Shetty
- Vijay Raaz as Vaaman
- Manoj Mishra as Prisoner
- Vallabh Vyas as Hirachand
- Nawab Shah as shooter
- Aanjan Shrivastava as a Judge
- Gauhar Khan - special appearance in song "Nasha"
Music
- "Dil Se Dilbar" - Kumar Sanu, Anuradha Paudwal
- "Hamare Baad" - Shabbir Kumar, Udit Narayan, Ujwala, Sarika Kapoor
- "Jab Tak Rahega" - Abhijeet, Anuradha Paudwal
- "Hum Aapse" - Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik
- "Koi Pyar Na Kare" - Shreya Ghoshal, Sonu Nigam
- "Jugnu Ki Payal" - Zubeen Garg, Shaswati
- "Nasha Nasha" - Sunidhi Chauhan
- "Koi Pyar Na Kare" - Sonu Nigam
References
- "Aan: Men at Work (2004)". imdb.com. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
- "Watch Aan Men At Work New Hindi Movie Online Free". hindi-movie.org/. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
- "Movie review: Aan Men at work". hindisong.com. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
- "Aan - Men at Work". bollywoodhungama.com. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
- "Bollywood - Film Review - Aan - Men At Work". planetbollywood.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2013.