Agilan

N Kalyanakrishnan introduces us to the murky underworld of the Chennai port. While he does a meticulous job in setting up the milieu, the mark is missed ...

The film takes the first hour of the film to explain its labyrinthine milieu to us, which on paper, is not really a bad thing as not many of us in the audience are hardly familiar with the nuances of container mafia and the proportionality between sea traffic and inflation. A romance is established (with a minute-long lover’s repartee that seems out of place in the film), but never really explored with any form of depth. [Jayam Ravi](https://www.filmcompanion.in/topic/jayam-ravi) is slap-bang in the middle of a battle in the deep sea. Apart from a few sleek action set pieces (in one such scene, the makers have rollicking fun with the idea of mannequins to smuggle a high-profile data hacker), and Jayam Ravi’s sincere act, the film leaves us no real meat to chew on. The last time we saw him in the middle of a charged oceanic battle was in [Ponniyin Selvan](https://www.filmcompanion.in/reviews/tamil-review/ponniyin-selvan-movie-review-mani-ratnam-ponniyin-selvan-1-review-a-gorgeous-time-machine-that-forces-you-to-leave-the-books-at-home), warding off the Pandyas in a spectacularly choreographed sequence. Described by his boss Paranthaman (played by Tamil cinema’s stock villain Hareesh Peradi) as a “cunning dog”, we see Agilan smuggle drugs in freight containers as the star is introduced.

Director Kalyan Krishnan worked on the boxing scene in his earlier film with Jayam Ravi, Bhooloham. The director was appreciated for his detailing in the ...

The film is technically neat with good camera work by Vivek and fine editing. Chirag Jani is the next actor in line who makes an impact, and the rest of the cast including Priya Bhavani Shankar fit the bill. But does the film work on the whole?

After Duraisingam established that “Indians are the Kings of the Indian Ocean” at the end of Singam 2, we've now got Agilan, who claims to be the one true king.

Whenever the film’s title is also the name of his character, it either ends up as a resounding hit or a colossal dud. Despite Ravi carrying the film on his able shoulders all by himself, Agilan goes nowhere and is as futile as an anchored ship. Despite his enemy lurking nearby in a different boat, given there’s no cover to take in the open ocean, Agilan still goes on with his operation. Imagine boarding the wrong flight to a different country because the airline decides to name their carrier in their own language. In one scene, Agilan goes to the middle of the ocean with a small motorboat that miraculously changes into a boat with extra props the very next scene. Agilan’s got a flashback that involves the death of innocent lives because, spoiler alert: his father gets conned.

Everybody growls in this film, and there are more villains than one can count, performing to deafening soundtracks. What's missing is a story.

The director makes a half-hearted attempt to rectify it later in the story, but it is far from enough. At the end of it, Agilan delivers (growls) a haphazard lecture on shipping economics to justify his smuggling. Apart from them, a star of Lal’s calibre is criminally wasted. One can accept why the director chose Jayam Ravi to play the father’s role in the flashback. Actually, growling is the sole unifying theme of this movie, which can loosely be described as a story about a lot of smugglers working out of a harbour in Tamil Nadu and one eternally angry cop intent on stopping them. This is why we have an equal variety of shots of cargo containers being loaded and unloaded, as we do villains in this movie.

Jayam Ravi's latest outing Agilan, in which the actor was seen in a character with shades of grey, hit screens today. The film, directed by Kalyana Krishnan ...

Agilan is bankrolled by Screen Scene Media Entertainment and distributed by Red Giant Movies. When one of the fans asked him, what one could expect from Agilan, he had said that 'Agilan wil make u witness the basic need of humanity fulfilled (sic).' He told another fan, "My opinion is tht I’ve worked sincerely n gave my 100% for agilan. • A few others, too, have stated that the film's storyline is completely flat. The audience applauded him for his earnest performance. As Agilan tries to join hands with a rich entrepreneur, the relationship between Paranthaman and Agilan exacerbates and Agilan tries to handle the situation along with the help of ladylove Madhavi (Priya Bhavani Shankar).

The introduction scene of the hero in the movie Agilan has him smuggling three containers with fake currency into a cargo ship.

The back and forth in the second half is so much that you just lose track of what the movie was trying to say. The poor level of conviction that was there in that movie is clearly there in Agilan, which makes it a tiring and unintentionally funny film. There is even a moment where Agilan gets shot by his enemies and is put in the ocean. Agilan, a crane operator in a harbor in Chennai, and one of the close aid of this dock boss, Paranthaman, is our central character. N Kalyanakrishnan’s Agilan invests so much in certain moments that you get a feeling that the director wants to convey something only he knows. The introduction scene of the hero in the movie Agilan has him smuggling three containers with fake currency into a cargo ship.

Agilan Review Bharath Vijayakumar The first notable thing about N Kalyanakrishnan's Agilan is that it is a focused film. The plot that is s.

But the issue in Agilan is that despite it being focussed, it is hardly interesting or exciting. The first half of Agilan too is ‘KGFesque’ in certain ways. The first notable thing about N Kalyanakrishnan’s Agilan is that it is a focused film.