Star-casts: Ajith Kumar, Nayanthara, Navdeep, Piyaa, Nasser, Suman, Suhasini, Jayaram and many others.
Banner: Ayngaran International
Camera: Arjun Jena
Editing: VT Vijayan
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues and Direction: Raju Sundaram
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja

The very tagline that we have posted ‘Stunning Stroke by Ajith Kumar’ is really a true factor when it comes to ‘Aegan’. Smart work by Ultimate Star and he keeps up the laurels won with ‘Billa’. So what about Raju Sundaram? Does he commence his directorial venture with an impressive approach or has he at least remade ‘Main Hoon Naa’ perfectly? Enter the theatres with same expectations with few getting disappointed while rest singing appraisals for him.

A Cop Siva (Ajith Kumar) as an undercover agent gets into college for trapping the world’s most wanted criminal. Karthikeyan (Nasser), father-commissioner of Police assigns him the case of getting admitted in St. John’s College where one the criminal inmate’s daughter trammeled (Piyaa) Studying is undergoing studies. This is all to trap her father Ram Prasad through whom the masterminded criminal John Chinnappa (Suman) can be trammeled…

Lesser he is good in social contacts, more he becomes fond of college life and youngsters, especially Pooja (Piya) and her boyfriend Kishore (Navdeep). At the beginning there is none coping with him and once as Siva saves Piyaa from a grievous situation. Meanwhile Siva meets a lady professor Mallika (Nayanthara) and it’s love at first sight.

Filled with humor and entertainments, Siva forgets his serious part but at the same time keeps track on pursuit of Ram Prasad. Finally, he treads fulfilling his mission and in the course gets back his lost close relations.

Ajith Kumar dons a perfect role and his differentiation as a serious police officer (in the early scenes of film) and a jolly going guy throughout the film offers something new not just for Thala fans, but for the entire audiences. Wow! He enthralls everyone with his unforeseen cuts and breaks in dance. His comedy quotients are excellent and his combo with Jayaram and Haneefa are humorous shows. Jayaram as principal of college named Albert add more the humor part with and without Ajith. Look out for his gestures when Ajith sings ‘Unnai Partha Pinbu Naan’ (his original song from Kadhal Mannan), they are best laughter parts.

Followed by Vallavan, Kuselan and Satyam, Nayanthara offers one more disappointment for all her fans. Raju Sundaram seems to be amateurish as he presents her with the same style of costumes used by Sushmitha in Main Hoon Naa. Nayanthara doesn’t come up with any appreciative works nor does her glamour quotient work very well. Her aged looks spoils and irritating performance dampens the film. Navdeep and Piyaa: they are good in their performance, but Raju Sundaram could have opted for better well known actors as it would add more value. The most ever craziest part is Suman and his characterization. Fine! Villains needn’t be always comedians… depicting Suman as funny character right from the beginning till the end spoils the mood (Often looks like Vijay TV ‘Lollu Sabha’). And then taking into comparisons between ‘Main Hoon Naa’ and ‘Aegan’, the Hindi version has the scenes going hand in hand and none of them look absurd. The final Cultural day song in Hindi was good and over here it looks odd of Ajith dancing for a song that in no way goes entertaining or apt for situation. The other bleak scenario is the locations. Main Hoon Naa was shot across the hill station of exotic location in Darjeeling. So, the Tamil version too has been shot at a hill station, but for what purpose? Directors fail to establish the location for adding cool ambience. Ajith Kumar arresting Pooja’s father Ram Prasad is a classy scene, but remember it’s an emotional sequence between father and daughter as well friendship. This sequence doesn’t need any room for heroisms and yet the slow motion of stylish walks and signature music is played and Nayan smiling from a corner offer an uneasy feeling…

Yuvan Shankar Raja’s musical score doesn’t live up to our expectations and Arjun Jena’s cinematography is a mediocre. Only one song ‘Hey Saala’ tops the chart while rest isn’t much impressive. Watch out for Ajith’s mannerisms in ‘Hey Baby Baby’ where he imitates Sivaji Ganeshan.

The first half moves so finely while the latter part gets stuck here and there. In fact, you’ll yearn for the climax to come.

On the whole, Aegan is a film well-tailored flick merely for Ajith fans. In their terms; Ajit rocks with his best dance, comedy, performance, actions, romance and emotions…. But Raju Sundaram isn’t as well-doing as his elder brother Prabhu Deva as a director. Lack of pace in screenplay and fallible parts of technical aspects makes the film not exceeding our expectations.

Bottom - Line: 1st half Enjoyable and 2nd half can be Tuned well

Verdict: Thala rocks… Raju Sundaram fails…