Initiative Films and Capitalwood Pictures’ Anya (UA) is the story of a documentary filmmaker who wants to project the ills of society.
Divya (Raima Sen) wants to make a documentary on labourers, farmers, orphans and call girls. She is aided by filmmaker Deepak (Bhushan Pradhan), pickpocket and thief Sartaj (Prathamesh Parab) and writer Arindam (Atul Kulkarni). Sartaj shoots for the documentary, with a hidden camera. How the documentary helps in exposing the wrong doers is what the crux of the drama is.
Simmy Joseph has written a story which makes little sense. His screenplay looks contrived and one of complete convenience. Nothing in the drama really surprises the audience. Joseph’s dialogues are so-so. The dialogues in Marathi have been written by Mahendra Patil; they, too, are ordinary.
Raima Sen does fairly well as documentary filmmaker Divya. Bhushan Pradhan is okay as Deepak. Prathamesh Parab is very good in the role of Sartaj. Atul Kulkarni performs ably as writer Arindam. Sunil Tawde is okay as Baburamji. Tejashree Pradhan lends average support as Yamuna. Krutika Deo is ordinary as Khushi. Yashpal Sharma (as the police commissioner) and Govind Namdeo (as Vivek Ahuja) have both been wasted. Lokesh Mittal is alright as Desai. Deepak Pandey passes muster as Milan.
Simmy Joseph’s direction is weak. Music (Vipin Patwa, Rishi S., Krishna Raaj and Raamnaath) is below the mark. Dr. Sagar and Sanjeev Sarathie’s Hindi lyrics, and Prashant Jamdar’s Marathi lyrics are routine. Sabah Bari’s song picturisations hardly deserve special mention. Rohit Kulkarni’s background music is not too inspiring. Camerawork (Sajan Kalathil) is nothing to write home about. Shekhar Ujjainwal’s production designing is below the mark. Thanuj’s editing ought to have been sharper.
On the whole, Anya will not score at the box-office — neither in Hindi nor in Marathi.
Released on 10-6-’22 at Movie Star Goregaon (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru Panorama Studios. The Marathi version released on 10-6-’22 at Gold Digital Dadar (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru Pickle Entertainment. Publicity & opening: poor. …….Also released (Hindi version) all over.