2005 · thriller · psychological · action
Anniyan
Directed by Shankar3h 1m2005
Unable to tolerate society's injustices and devastated by rejection from the woman he loves, a meek lawyer develops a split personality: one side a vengeful vigilante killer punishing evildoers, the other a dashing playboy capable of winning her heart. Complications arise when the three sides begin to collide.
Our read: Anniyan (2005) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive thriller · psychological · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / psychological, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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