Anthony Kaun Hai?
- Director
- Raj Kaushal
- Studio
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- Release Date
- 3 August 2006
- Running Time
- 127 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹13.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹17.21 Cr
Review
Neeraj Pandey's "Anthony Kaun Hai?" is a convoluted mess that mistakes noise for narrative momentum. The film lurches from Bangkok criminality to prison bonding to diamond heists without ever establishing why we should care about any of it. Rajummar Rao delivers a serviceable performance as Champ, but he's constantly undermined by a screenplay that treats character development as an afterthought. The premise—a forger mistaken for a debtor, dragged into a diamond scheme by a fake deaf-mute prisoner—could have been darkly comic, but instead it's just scattered. Direction feels unfocused, ping-ponging between thriller beats and romantic backstory without building coherent tension. The supporting cast drowns in underbaked writing, and the Bangkok setting becomes mere window dressing rather than atmospheric texture.
What's most frustrating is that buried somewhere in this chaos is a decent premise about desperation and broken dreams. Champ's heartbreak over Roza's remarriage could've anchored the whole affair, but the film abandons emotional specificity the moment it spots a plot device. The heist mechanics are lazily explained, the prison sequences lack authenticity, and the criminal underworld feels painted on rather than lived-in. For a film that banks so heavily on twists and misdirection, it fundamentally fails to make those revelations land. You're never surprised because you were never properly invested.
Rating: 4/10
Storyline
So basically, this wild movie is set in Bangkok and kicks off with this dangerous criminal named Madan who's trying to collect a debt. He grabs this guy he thinks is Anthony Gonsalves, but the dude tells him he's actually someone else entirely—his real name is Champ and he's a document forger. Champ ends up spilling his whole backstory about how he was arrested on his wedding day and thrown in jail for six months, right when things were supposed to be perfect with his fiancée Roza.
While he's locked up, Champ meets this other prisoner named Raghu who's doing life for stealing diamonds from the Thai Queen. Raghu's actually super clever—he used magic tricks to pull off the heist and hid the diamonds before getting caught. The funny thing is that Raghu pretends to be deaf and mute, but Champ figures out he can actually talk and they bond over it. Raghu eventually opens up because he's desperate and wants Champ's help getting out of prison, promising to split his massive diamond stash worth a fortune if Champ agrees to help.
At first Champ's not interested because he's almost done with his sentence and doesn't want to risk anything else, but then life throws him a curveball. Once he gets released, he finds out that Roza has married someone else and is pregnant, which absolutely crushes him. This heartbreak becomes the turning point that changes everything for Champ and sets the whole crazy adventure in motion.
