Anegan

2015 film directed by K. V. AnandTemplate:SHORTDESC:2015 film directed by K. V. Anand
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## Anegan

### **Written by**

Subha
K. V. Anand

### **Produced by**

Kalpathi S Aghoram
Kalpathi S Ganesh
Kalpathi S Suresh

### **Starring**

* Dhanush
* Karthik
* Amyra Dastur

### **Distributed by**

AGS Entertainment
Wunderbar Films
Ayngaran International

### **Box office**

Template:INR 55 crore

***Anegan*** (Template:Translation; lit. 'Man with several shadows') is a 2015 Indian period romantic thriller film directed by K. V. Anand and produced by Kalpathi S. Aghoram, S. Ganesh, S. Suresh under the banner AGS Entertainment. The film features an ensemble cast starring Dhanush and Amyra Dastur in a quadruple roles, while Karthik, Ashish Vidyarthi, Aishwarya Devan, Mukesh Tiwari and Jagan appear in supporting roles. The plot of this story is inspired from the 1963 film *Nenjam Marapathillai*. The film's title is based on *Thiruvasagam*, which was written by poet Manikkavacakar. Set in four different time periods, the film is based on theme of reincarnation, which revolves around Ashwin (Dhanush) and Madhu (Amyra Dastur) who were lovers in their past lives, have been brought together in the present.

Principal photography commenced on 2 September 2013 at Puducherry. Filming continued in Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Burma, and some parts of India. and was completed on 15 September 2014. The film features music composed by Harris Jayaraj, with cinematography handled by Om Prakash and editing done by Anthony. The visual effects were handled by V. Srinivas Mohan.

After multiple postponements, *Anegan* was released on 13 February 2015 to positive reviews from critics who praised the cast performances of (particularly Dhanush. Amyra and Karthik), plot and visual style. The film was a moderately successful at the box office. The film's Telugu dubbed version titled *Anekudu* was released on 27 February 2015. In 2016, the film was dubbed into Hindi as *Anek* by Goldmines Telefilms Pvt Ltd. In 2019, the film was dubbed into Bengali as *Mon Majhi Re*. In 2023, the film was dubbed into Malayalam with the same title.

## Plot

During the 1960s, Murugappa alias Munaruna is a Tamil worker in Burma. Munaruna's friend Saamuda falls in love with Mallika, but Mallika loves Munaruna. Munaruna saves Samudra, the daughter of a Burmese army general, from a Ferris wheel accident and they fall in love. After learning about this, Mallika is devastated and marries Saamuda. The Burmese general disapproves of the union between Munaruna and Samudra, and revokes the privileges that the Tamil immigrants had until then. Violence breaks out and the Tamil nationals flee Burma. Munaruna and Samudra join the refugees on a ship with Saamuda and Mallika. Samudra's father arrives looking for her, where Mallika spitefully reveals about their hideout. As Samudra and Munaruna try to escape by diving into the ocean, Munaruna is shot and killed. Samudra handcuffs herself to Munaruna and drowns with him after promising to be together forever.

In present-day India, Samudra, who is now known as Madhu, tells her psychiatrist Dr. Radhika that she has already met Saamuda and Mallika as Jagan and Meera, who are fellow programmers in the game development company where she works. Radhika dismisses this as work stress and gives medicines to Madhu. Madhu meets Ashwin, a new employee in her company, and seeing his resemblance to Munaruna, flirts with him. Kiran is their boss and he knows to extract work from employees with ease. Meera hallucinates about ghosts trying to assault her, where she jumps from the office window and dies. Madhu is disturbed and attends her therapy sessions with Radhika when she remembers her first birth where she was a princess named Shenbagavalli and was in love with a king named Ilamaran, who also resembles Ashwin. The two are killed by a traitorous officer in Ilamaran's army.

Madhu and Ashwin meet with a car accident, where Madhu is admitted to a hospital. Madhu dreams about overhearing Inspector Gopinath's conversation about a couple named Kaali and Kalyani, when she intervenes and says that she knows their whereabouts. Once awake, Madhu recites the dream to the policemen in the hospital and they are confused. Gopinath, who is the present police commissioner, visits her and Madhu realizes that he looks like the same police officer from her dream in the hospital. Gopinath tells that the Kaali-Kalyani story was a missing person case that happened 25 years ago. Madhu claims that Kaali and Kalyani were killed and buried and takes Gopinath and Ashwin to a place where they dig up and find skeletons identified as remains of Kaali and Kalyani. Gopinath finds a ring engraved with the letter R on one of the skeletons. Ashwin is confused as to what R may mean.

Kiran hears about her hallucinations and rushes to the clinic. Madhu hallucinates about her third birth, where she is Kalyani, who falls in love with a goon called Kaali. Kalyani tells Kaali to confess his crimes and serve out his time in prison in return for her hand in marriage. Kalyani father is displeased and forcefully arranges her marriage with RaviKiran while Kaali is in prison. Kaali escapes from prison and meets Kalyani and they plan to elope, but RaviKiran finds out and offers to help them. However, RaviKiran takes them to a secluded spot, where he murders the couple out of jealousy and buries them. The finger with the ring belongs to RaviKiran and is amputated by Kaali during the fight. RaviKiran unknowingly buries it along with the dead bodies.

RaviKiran later goes by the name Kiran, who is Madhu and Ashwin's boss at the gaming company. Madhu learns the truth of Kali and Kalyani's death from Kalyani's father, but Kiran kidnaps Madhu and kills Kalyani's father. Ashwin finds video games with plots resembling the stories of Madhu's previous births and Meera's hallucination before her death. Madhu finds a drug that the employees have been using to boost productivity, where he realizes that Kiran has been giving illegal drugs to his employees to boost their creativity in order to profit with intense and uniquely themed games. As a side effect of the drug, the employees hallucinate, leading to Madhu's memories of her "past lives" and the recalling of the story of Kalyani as her own.

Ashwin confronts Kiran and a fight ensues, where Ashwin manages to defeat him and saves Madhu. Kiran is killed when a knife Ashwin threw into a tree falls onto Kiran's chest. Gopinath covers up the death as suicide, stating that Kiran killed himself for fear of dealing with the repercussions of his illegal activities. Ashwin and Madhu marry and honeymoon in Burma. As they playfully argue over whether Madhu's dreams had all been hallucinations or partly true, Ashwin and Madhu pass by a log with a heart and the names of Munaruna and Samudra carved into it.

## Cast

* Dhanush in four roles as;
	+ Ashwin, a young man who works at Kiran's company in the system admin department and falls in love with Madhu
	+ Kaaliswaran (Kaali), A painter in Madras 1987 who falls in love with Kalyani
	+ Murugappa (Munaruna), A construction worker in Burma in 1962 and Samudra's lover
	+ (Ilamaran), King Ilamaran in ancient Tamil Nadu (portrait in 'Roja Kadale' song only)
* Karthik as Ravikiran (Kiran), MD of a Gaming Company
* Amyra Dastur in four roles as:
	+ Madhumitha, a game designer at Kiran's company who fall in love with Ashwin
	+ Samudra, a school student in Burma in 1962 who fall in love with Munaruna
	+ Kalyani, a social activist in Madras 1987 who falls in love with Kaali
	+ Shenbagavalli, Princess Shenbagavalli in ancient Tamil Nadu (portrait in 'Roja Kadale' song only)
* Aishwarya Devan in dual roles as:
	+ Meera, a co-worker with Madhu
	+ Mallika, Munaruna's one-side lover, and Saamuda's wife
* Ashish Vidyarthi in dual roles as:
	+ Gopinath, Inspector of Police in Madras 1987 and later promoted as Commissioner in Chennai city,
	+ Rana, head soldier of King Ilamaran in old ancient (portrait in roja kadale song only)
* Jagan in dual roles as:
	+ Jagan, co-worker with Ashwin and Madhu
	+ Saamuda, Munaruna's friend in Burma in 1962
* Mukesh Tiwari in dual roles as:
	+ Burma Police Officer in 1962 and Samudra's father
	+ Radhakrishan, Madhu's uncle in present
* Thalaivasal Vijay as Moorthy (Kalyani's father)
* Vinaya Prasad as Madhumitha's mother
* Lena as Dr. Radhika and a woman in Burma who was fighting with an officer
* Shankar Krishnamurthy as Ashwin's father
* D. R. K. Kiran as Ranjith, Kiran's goon
* Revathi Sankar as Ravikiran's mother
* Veera Santhanam as Guruji
* K.R.G Sharad as Genie
* Bhawana Aneja as Samudra's mother (of Tamil descent) in Burma 1962
* Baby Vedhika
* Rajesh Milton
* Pankaj Rajan
* Baba Bhaskar (special appearance in the song "Danga Maari Oodhari")

## Production

### Characters

Dhanush was said to appear in four different looks in the film since the film is set across different time periods. Furthermore, K. V. Anand had stated that Dhanush will be sporting a hairdo, for the character King Ilamaran, similar to Kamal Haasan's look in the film, *Tik Tik Tik* (1981).

## Themes and influences

M. Suganth of *The Times of India* in his review stated that the film "[had] traces of *Magadheera*, *Enakkul Oruvan*, *Cloud Atlas* and *The Fountain*" but attributed the comparison "mainly due to the reincarnation theme."

## Music

*Main article: Anegan (soundtrack)*
The film's soundtrack is scored by K. V. Anand's regular collaborator Harris Jayaraj, which was his first and only collaboration with Dhanush. The soundtrack album features six tracks, written by Vairamuthu, Kabilan Vairamuthu, Rokesh and C. S. Amudhan. Recording of the songs took place within April to August 2014. The album was released by Sony Music on 1 November 2014, through iTunes and later released at a launch event held on 2 November 2014, at the Suryan FM 93.5 Radio Station, in the presence of the film's cast and crew. The soundtrack album received positive reviews, and the song "Danga Maari Oodhari" became a chartbuster upon release.

## Release

### Distribution

The film's Tamil Nadu distribution rights, were bought by Dhanush's home banner, Wunderbar Films. The Kerala distribution rights were bought by E4 Entertainment. Fox Star Studios, acquired the Karnataka distribution rights. The overseas rights were bought by Ayngaran International. In US, Atmus Entertainment bought the distribution rights, and released in 160 screens. The film was dubbed in Telugu as *Anekudu*, and was released on 27 February 2015.

### Home media

The satellite rights of the film were sold to Sun TV.

#### Television broadcast

The film's television premiere took place on 14 April 2015, coinciding with Tamil New Year festival. This caused their fans becoming displeased, and requested to postpone the premiere of the film. Despite that, the channel went ahead with the premiere.

## Reception

### Box office

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## References

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