Wordiezett So much average

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

kri_har_85 I actually watched 'anniyan' before i watched the original Hollywood ones and I loved it that time. Later got very disappointed seeing how director shankar, shamelessly ripped from multiple Hollywood movies to make this.There is nothing original in the movie, expect the comedy scenes and songs Theme of the movie is copied from a Hollywood classic called seven (killing people based on sins) and primal fear(the whole split personality scenes and climax, only addition from primal fear is remo,for songs). Action scenes are ripped from kill bill and matrix, sort of mixed them both, like how he mixed seven and primal fear to come up with the script. Sorry, Shankar fans, I am just sharing my disappointment to find out that one of my favourite Indian movie is not at all original.

abhijit-x-bhattacharya If you do not know Tamil (just like I don't) then watch the DVD version of ANNIYAN with subtitles (not the Hindi version). You will be proud to find that the best movies in the world are Indian movies (I will learn Tamil just to watch its movies). Roles were challenging but acting/performance was great too. Direction qualifies for a new degree after good better and best. Comedy has good timing and morals delivered are clear. I have been humming the songs specially - Iyengar Vittu Adege with out really knowing what the lyrics means. Actions were well shown and well place in the movie. The scenes were so well placed. Music was super. This is a art, classic, action, science, romance, thriller, drama. A movie does not get better than this.

mnair92 Those of you who are going into this movie thinking its going to be awesome your gonna be disappointed. This is an Indian remake of combined movies so it lacks in many aspects. Comedy is OK but dwindles down in towards the middle. Vikram did a good job at acting his role. This movie got a lot of awards and all but I personally don't see what was so great.It is an OK movie if you want to kill some time. A few good songs esp. "Kumari". very beautiful. They could have explained the origins of the punishments a little more for those of us who aren't familiar with the "puranas" and all.Overall I give it a C+. OK, not great.

rangaa I can't believe I'm writing a review for a movie this bad. I know better than to expect good movies from the Tamil film industry these days, but this one came as a shocker nevertheless. I don't remember the last half-decent movie I saw that came from home - probably Autograph. It's a shame: the same industry that produced Kadhalikka Neramillai, Nayagan, Mouna Ragam...but I digress. What hurts me most is hypocrisy in such *message* movies. I will eat the humble pie if anything changes in India after Shankar makes a million of these movies a million times over. Anniyan was just a fool-proof formula masquerading as a film that had a social message. Try telling someone else that Shankar cares about anything except for the commercial success of his movies. And for heaven's sake, why can't we be original? There's one very interesting forum topic here that's discussing the number of English movies this was a rip-off from. I'm sure the quiz-masters are getting their notepads ready for a mega question: play a couple of scenes and then ask the contestants to name all the original movies that 'inspired' those scenes. Don't even let me get started on the song lyrics... Now that I've berated it enough, let me explain why I gave it the three stars that I did. Song visualisations. Vivek's comedy (a *big* saving grace - 2 stars). I'm not going to ask you not to watch it. You are either going to think I'm stupid, or that I watch only Bergman, Fellini, Renoir and Eisenstein to be saying such ridiculous things. So, go ahead by all means. And God bless our country if such movies are going to change it.