Anniyan (2005) on Netflix
In Chennai, consumer advocate Ramanujam Iyengar's failed prosecutions against corrupt men give rise to Anniyan, a vigilante. Rejected by his neighbor Nandini, he develops Remo, a charming model.
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Plot summary
Ramanujam Iyengar, known as Ambi, is a strict law-abiding consumer protection advocate in Thiruvallikeni, Chennai. His attempts to prosecute public offenders fail because corruption and uncooperative evidence defeat him, and the public ignores his civic campaigns. His suppressed rage takes the form of Anniyan, a grim-reaper-themed vigilante who runs a website cataloging corrupt people and kills them using torments drawn from the Garuda Purana. Ambi loves his neighbor Nandini, an aspiring Carnatic vocalist. At the Tyagaraja Aradhana festival, with help from his friend Sub-Inspector Chari, he proposes; she refuses him, citing his overbearing nature and constant fault-finding. He tries to drown himself but stops. The trauma creates Remo, a charismatic fashion model who charms Nandini, and they become engaged.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Anniyan (2005)
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- About a dozen stuntmen were badly injured while filming a fight scene in which Anniyan takes on roughly a hundred martial artists at the fictional International Martial Arts School, Vodao: the rope they were tied to gave way and they crashed down from a balcony.
- Anniyan was budgeted at ₹26.3 crore, making it the most expensive Indian film at the time of its release; it was the first South Indian film to obtain institutional finance and had the highest insurance coverage then available for films.
- The heroine's role, that of a devoted Iyengar Brahmin girl, was first offered to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who was too busy; after months of waiting for her call sheet, Shankar offered the part to Sadha.
- Cinematographer V. Manikandan, who had given six months of bulk dates, walked out in October 2004 citing scheduling conflicts after Shankar demanded three more months, and Ravi Varman was brought in to shoot the rest of the film.
- The frozen-time effect in the action sequence was shot with 120 cameras using the "bullet time" technique popularised by The Matrix (1999); where Shankar's earlier Boys linked 60–62 cameras for a 180° rotation, Anniyan used 120–122 cameras for 270°.
- The crew were refused permission to film a song sequence at a garden in Keukenhof because a previous Indian film crew had damaged the habitat a few weeks earlier.
- Anniyan was dubbed into French by Paramount Pictures, reportedly making it the first Indian film to be dubbed into French and released in French-speaking countries worldwide by Columbia Tristar.
- After the Telugu version Aparichitudu became a hit in Andhra Pradesh, the State Transport Corporation of Warangal named a bus Remo, after the character played by Vikram in the film.
