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 Director: Suresh Krishna
Cast: Kamal Haasan, Raveena Tandon, Manisha Koirala, Kitu Gidwani, Sharat Babu, Fatima Babu, Vikram Gokhle
The story centres round twins, Vijay a commando and Nandu his crazy twin. After Vijay brings his fiance Tejaswini to the mental asylum to introduce to Nandu, Nandhu makes it his mission to break out of the asylum and 'save' his brother. For Nandhu, women are all conniving, scheming creatures, waiting to trap men in their web of deceit. Like his step-mother had done to his father years back, and had been the cause of his mother's suicide.
The commando-action scenes look quite stagey, Kamal's performance laborious as Vijay. But the actor revels in his role as Nandhu, the psychopath killer, suffering from hallucinations. Shades of 'Silence of the Lambs' can be seen here. As for the 'nude' scene, there's nothing much for the actor's female fans to get excited about. It's just a fleeting shot, subtly taken.
 Most of the characters seem to suffer from some quirk or the other, and are just props round the character of Nandhu. Including the heroines Raveena and Manisha. Kitu's is one performance that people may remember. Mahesh's background score sets the right tempo, the songs (Shanker - Ehsan - Loy) just about average. What stands out is the graphics, like the scenes where a hallucinating Nandhu fights with the cartoon characters. And Thiru's cinematography which gives support to the myriad moods in the film. At times in the fight scenes, one almost forgets that it is a single actor who is doing both the characters. It is the technical gloss that stands out, the much hyped film not quite standing up to the expectations it had raised.
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