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{{Short description|2008 film directed by Mysskin}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Anjathe
| image = Anjathe.jpg
| director = [[Mysskin]]
| writer = [[Mysskin]]
| starring = [[Narain (actor)|Narain]]<br />[[Prasanna (actor)|Prasanna]]<br />[[Ajmal Ameer]]<br />[[Vijayalakshmi (Tamil actress)|Vijayalakshmi]]
| producer = [[Nemichand Jhabak|V. Hitesh Jhabak]]
| cinematography = [[Mahesh Muthuswami]]
| music = [[Sundar C Babu]]
| editing = Sadagoppan Ramesh
| studio = [[Nemichand Jhabak]]
| released = {{start date|df=yes|2008|02|14}}
| runtime = 192 minutes
| language = Tamil
| country = India
}}
'''''Anjathe''''' ({{translation|Do Not Fear}}) is a 2008 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[action thriller film]] written and directed by [[Mysskin]] and produced by [[Nemichand Jhabak|V. Hitesh Jhabak]]. The film stars [[Narain (actor)|Narain]], [[Prasanna (actor)|Prasanna]], [[Ajmal Ameer]], and [[Vijayalakshmi (Tamil actress)|Vijayalakshmi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://in.movies.yahoo.com/071013/226/6lw6n.html|title=Sathya Sodanai to Aaruvadu Sinam to Anjaade|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016212701/http://in.movies.yahoo.com/071013/226/6lw6n.html |date=16 October 2007|archive-date=16 October 2007|work=Yahoo Movies}}</ref> The film opened to rave reviews for its technical expertise, avant-garde filmmaking, and for the performance of actor Prasanna. The film became a "blockbuster" at the box office.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080218122742/http://sify.com/movies/tamil/review.php?id=14605383&ctid=5&cid=2429 Welcome to Sify.com]</ref> The composition of frames, selection of shots and its counter meaning in narration made Anjathe a perfect example of Tamil New Wave cinema.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Identification and Analysis of Images in Anjathey|last = Kalorth|first = Nithin|date = 2013|journal = Media Watch|access-date = November 29, 2015|url = https://www.academia.edu/4810771}}</ref> The film was remade in Kannada as ''Anjadiru'' (2009).<ref>https://www.rediff.com/movies/review/anjadhiru-is-engrossing/20090313.htm</ref>

==Plot==
Sathyavan and Kripakaran are close friends living opposite each other in the police quarters neighborhood. Sathya is a rowdy, wasting his time drinking merrily and getting involved in fights. Though he and Kripa pass college with a first-class degree, Sathya has no interest in joining the police force, while Kripa studies hard to become a Sub-Inspector. He challenges Sathya to keep the same. Just a day before the exam, Sathya decides to take up the exam as well, much to his friend's surprise. With a little head start, he passes the physical, written, and interview and becomes an SI. However, Kripa does not make it through despite being straightforward; this creates a rift between the two. Kripa's father lies to Sathya that he has gone to Mumbai, but Sathya finds him in the local bar, having become a drunkard.

The parallel is the story of Deena Dayalan and Loganathan, who extort money from businessmen through kidnappings. Before Sathya becomes a policeman, he beats up Daya for attempting to molest Kripa's sister Uthra, though none, including Kripa, knows of this.

Sathya gains fame by holding off knife-wielding men who come to kill an injured man at a hospital, though the man is killed later in the night. As a result, Sathya is drafted into a special task force to catch the gang members related to the crime. Meanwhile, Daya and Logu carry out two kidnappings, rape the victims on both occasions, and release them for ransom money. Kripa is beaten up by the police for a skirmish at the local bar; his father suffers a heart attack after getting his son back from the police station. At this point of time, Kripa is employed by Daya, mainly because the former is distraught and will fall easily to the lure of money and booze. In the third time, however, the police are informed, but the kidnappers find out by chance and change the drop off point at the last moment. They give the police the slip but narrowly avoid capture, with Kripa providing shelter for them in his house. Kripa joins along to get money for his father's angioplasty, though he does not realize until it is too late that he is doing illegal things and harming young children.

Meanwhile, Sathya identifies Daya from the characteristics, with a background check revealing that Daya was accused of raping his senior's wife in the army. Daya, Logu, and their accomplices are again almost caught when the police trace one of the accomplices' family. Daya kills his own man during this raid to avoid information being passed, and hatches a plan to escape to Bihar in a poultry van. Logu is killed by Daya upon learning that the former had hatched a plan to kill him. However, to escape to the city outskirts to rendezvous with the van, they hijack the Inspector-General's car with his two daughters inside. Switching soon to a disguised-dog van to get past check-posts with the two girls, Daya, Kripa, and another accomplice arrive at a sugarcane field. Sathya recognizes Kripa's voice from the ransom call he makes to the IG, and follows Uthra from the hospital, who has been instructed to bring a bag full of cash from their home (kept there by Daya), to the sugarcane field.

The plot to kidnap the IG's daughters is an elaborate ruse to divert the police force to the south of the city while they escape from the north. The special task force, who are in the south of the city, realize the plot and, upon learning that Sathya is alone in the north of the city, head in that direction. In the sugarcane fields, Kripa shows compassion towards the two girls, treating them softly. Upon hearing some noise in the field, Daya splits the group, doing so to meet up directly with Uthra, who has the money. He tries to rape her, but Sathya intervenes. A fist fight ensures, but the special task force comes upon them and kills Daya by setting it up as an encounter.

The two girls split and escape from the third accomplice, only for one of them to be recaptured by him, but is let off being too tiring to carry. Kripa and the third accomplice try to run away, with Uthra behind him. Just as he leaves her to escape, she reveals that she is in love with Sathya and uses the situation to handcuff herself to Kripa to avoid him from escaping. In the end, Sathya shoots Kripa in self-defense and to save one of the IG's daughters from being shot. When Kripa lies on Sathya's lap shot, Kripa finds a ring he once gifted to Sathya on his birthday, which Kripa believed was thrown away by Sathya when he was drunk while partying at the bar, which in turn wets Kripa's eye and dies. The ending scenes of the film show Sathya and Uthra getting married and having a son, whom they name Kripa.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Narain (actor)|Narain]] as SI Sathyavan (Sathya)
* [[Prasanna (actor)|Prasanna]] as Deena Dayalan (Daya)
* [[Ajmal Ameer]] as Kirubakaran (Kiruba)
* [[Vijayalakshmi (Tamil actress)|Vijayalakshmi]] as Udhra, Kiruba's sister
* [[Pandiarajan]] as Loganathan (Logu)
* [[Livingston (actor)|Livingston]] as Masilamani
* [[Ponvannan]] as Assistant Commissioner Keerti Vaasan
* Bomb Ramesh as Kuruvi (Satya & Kiruba's friend)
* Sridhar as Sappai, Deena Dayalan's right hand
* [[M. S. Bhaskar]] as Loganathan, Sathya's father
* [[Priya (actress)|Priyasri]] as Sathya's mother
* [[Jasper (actor)|Jasper]] as Anti-Kidnapping Team Member (Police Officer)
* [[Manobala]] as Murugesan
* [[Aadukalam Naren|Naren]] as Kidnapped girl's father
* [[Snigdha Akolkar]] as Workshop Dancer (cameo appearance)
{{colend}}

==Production==
After [[Mysskin]] had completed and released his maiden venture ''[[Chithiram Pesuthadi]]'' in 2006, he wrote the script for ''Nandalala'' for eight months, which was supposed to be his next directorial.<ref name=autogenerated6>{{cite web|author=cinesouth |url=http://www.cinesouth.com/masala/hotnews/new/19012007-3.shtml |title=Dailynews – Has 'Nandalala' been forsaken? |publisher=Cinesouth.com |date=2007-01-19 |access-date=2010-11-27}}</ref> A. M. Ratnam was initially to produce the film, for which his son [[Ravi Krishna]] was to play the lead role.<ref name=autogenerated9>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/27092.html |title=Mysskin runs around with Nandalala — Tamil Movie News |publisher=IndiaGlitz |date=2006-11-22 |access-date=2012-11-08}}</ref> Despite completing a [[photo shoot]] with Ravi Krishna, the film was shelved, since Ratnam opted out, after he incurred heavy losses with his previous productions.<ref name=autogenerated6 /> Mysskin decided to postpone the project, since "nobody was interested",<ref name=autogenerated8>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/2008/mar/24ssmys.htm |title=Mysskin, on making Anjathe |publisher=Rediff|date=2008-03-24 |access-date=2010-11-27}}</ref> and instead wrote a new story and commenced a new project, ''Anjathe'' with {{INR}}4.5 crore budget,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170917130519/http://www.sify.com/movies/narain-s-acid-test-news-tamil-kkftVbibiihsi.html Anjathe budget was 4.5 crore]</ref> which itself was a result of Mysskin's anger.<ref name=autogenerated8 /><ref name=autogenerated7>{{cite web|url=http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2008/sep/15sli2.htm |title=rediff.com: Mysskin: Shooting straight from the heart |publisher=Rediff |date=2008-09-15 |access-date=2010-11-27}}</ref> ''Nandhalala'' was initially Sneghidha's debut Tamil film, for which Mysskin had signed her in 2006 already, but with the film getting postponed, she made her first appearance in ''Anjathe'' that Mysskin decided to direct instead.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/37250.html |title=Mysskin's next — Telugu Movie News |publisher=IndiaGlitz |date=2008-03-14 |access-date=2012-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=V Lakshmi, TNN, 22 Nov 2010, 12.00am IST |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-11-22/news-interviews/28218611_1_mysskin-nandalala-snigdha |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104013903/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-11-22/news-interviews/28218611_1_mysskin-nandalala-snigdha |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-11-04 |title=I'm not ready to do skin shows: Snigdha |date=2010-11-22 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=2010-11-27}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
The music was composed by [[Sundar C. Babu]]<ref>[http://play.raaga.com/tamil/album/Anjaathe-songs-T0001241 Anjaathe Songs - Raaga.com]</ref> in his second collaboration with director [[Mysskin]] after ''[[Chithiram Pesuthadi]]''.
{{Infobox album
| name = Anjathe
| type = Soundtrack
| longtype =
| artist = [[Sundar C. Babu]]
| cover =
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| released = 9 January 2008
| recorded =
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| genre = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
| length = 24:41
| language = [[Tamil language|Tamil]]
| label =
| producer = Sundar C. Babu
| prev_title = [[Chithiram Pesuthadi]]
| prev_year = 2006
| next_title = [[Panchamirtham]]
| next_year = 2008
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{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! No. !! Song !! Singers !! Lyrics !! Length (m:ss)
|-
| 1 || "Atcham Thavir" || [[Mysskin]] || [[Bharathiyar]] || 04:37
|-
| 2 || "Love Theme" 1 || Instrumental || || 02:16
|-
| 3 || "Kaththazha Kannaala" || [[Naveen Madhav]] || [[Kabilan (lyricist)|Kabilan]] || 04:37
|-
| 4 || "Manasukkul Manasukkul" || [[Shweta Mohan]] || Priyan || 04:47
|-
| 5 || "Kannadasan Karaikudi" || Mysskin || Kabilan || 04:07
|-
| 6 || "Veenai Adi Nee Enakku" || Sundar C. Babu || Bharathiyar || 02:18
|-
| 7 || "Good Vs Evil" Theme || Instrumental || || 01:56
|-
| 8 || "Veenai Adi Nee Enakku" || Instrumental || || 02:12
|-
| 9 || "Love Theme" 2 || Instrumental || || 01:58
|}

==Box office==
* The film was a commercial success grossing {{INR}}1.68 crore at the Chennai box office.<ref>http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-slide-shows/movie-1/top-ten-movies/tamil-cinema-topten-movie-anjathe.html</ref>

==Awards==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee
! Outcome
|-
|rowspan="5"|<center>[[56th Filmfare Awards South]]</center>
|[[Filmfare Award for Best Film – Tamil|Best Film]]
|''Anjathe''
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Filmfare Award for Best Director – Tamil|Best Director]]
|[[Mysskin]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil|Best Actor]]
|[[Narain (actor)|Narain]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Tamil|Best Supporting Actor]]
|[[Ajmal Ameer]]
|{{won}}
|-
|[[Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Tamil|Best Supporting Actor]]
|[[Prasanna (actor)|Prasanna]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan="8"|<center>[[3rd Vijay Awards]]</center>
|[[Vijay Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
|''Anjathe''
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Vijay Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
|[[Mysskin]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Vijay Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
|V. R. Ramesh
|{{won}}
|-
|[[Vijay Award for Best Debut Actor|Best Debut Actor]]
|[[Ajmal Ameer]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Vijay Award for Best Cinematographer|Best Cinematographer]]
|[[Mahesh Muthuswami]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Vijay Award for Best Editor|Best Editor]]
|Sadagoppan Ramesh
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Vijay Award for Best Story, Screenplay Writer|screenplay]]
|[[Mysskin]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Vijay Award for Best Stunt Director|Best Stunt Director]]
|Action Prakash
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan="1"|<center>[[International Tamil Film Awards|ITFA]]</center>
|[[ITFA Best Villain Award]]
|[[Prasanna (actor)|Prasanna]]
|{{won}}
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Mysskin}}
{{Authority control}}

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