I’m disappointed and really this is coming from K.V Anand, who gave us his best in Kana Kandein with Srikanth, Gopika and introduced us one of Malayalam’s promising talents, Prithiviraj Sukumaran as the villian that garnered him notable movies such as Mozhi later on. But coming back to Ayan, it’s a sheer disappointment.
It’s a rehash of several smuggling stories that remind you of mostly of Mani Ratnam’s THIRUDA THIRUDA concept mashed in with Kamal Haasan’s GURU from decades back. Ayan fails to succeed as a entertainer because minutes into the film, you wonder, what the hell did Suriya do to accept such a film?
Granted, it’s got moments, but not enough to succeed my interest. Anand has made this film for the B and C Audiences, giving a big middle finger to the A Audiences as well.
So you have Deva(Suriya) a smuggler and his sidekick(Kishore) who is a trusted loyalty to his boss Dass(Prabhu Ganesan). Then you have the Seth’s son(Akshadeep) who competes in the smuggling business as well. Both are trying to outwit each other by competing rashly but it’s learnt later on that someone from Dass’s side is spilling in the secrets. At the same time, there’s Yamuna(Tamanna) who is Suriya’s love interest.
There are problems that lie in the script, logically mostly. One, how do diamonds stick onto a water bottle along with gum stickified? That doesn’t make any sense. Second, how is that Kishore and his father are dark while the others are fair? The whole scheme of genetics is thrown out the window apparently. And the funny thing is that Suriya speaks mostly English in the film, whereas in his last hit VAARANAM AAYIRAM, the public panned the film for depict mostly english in the film. How’s that for you in a sheer turn of events? Lots of stereotyping is seen in this film and the majority of the comedy scenes fall flat because Anand forces Comedy into a non-comic film. The love track between Deva and Yamuna is forced mainly because it’s one-sided and not 2. They’re the excuse for songs.
Harris Jayaraj’s music sounded excellent to the ears but in the film, they are forced and drive the viewer to insanity. By the time Nenje Nenje came on, I was irritated to the max and left for the bathroom break.
Suriya sleepwalks through the film because he’s donned the con man before in PITHAMAGAN and frankly, this is nothing for him. Tamanna is hardly there like most stereotype hero films. After giving a knock out performance in Telugu blockbuster HAPPY DAYS, she is a major disappointment. It’s really sad to see potential actors being wasted in thalapathi films like this. Akshadeep is gruffs and is stiff for the most part. Prabhu is adeaquate. Kishore is okay.
AYAN disappoints big time and is really a HIT to the face.