Aegan (Tamil: ஏகன்) is a 2008 Tamil action and romantic film directed and co-written by Raju Sundaram and produced by Ayngaran International. It stars Ajith Kumar, Nayantara, Suman, Jayaram, Navdeep and Piaa Bajpai.
The film revolves around a dare devil cop who, on behalf of his ailing father and the ambition of a lieutanent general returns to college in Ooty. Whilst protecting the general's daughter, he attempts to reconcile with his stepbrother from his father's marriage. Furthermore, he has to ward off the international criminal John Chinnappa, who is trying to kill the general, an ex-aide of his who has turned police approver. How the cop manages to solve all three problems forms the crux of the story.
The film opened to Indian audiences, on October 25, 2008, coinciding with the Diwali season. The film, upon release fetched average reviews on the actors' performances, the film went on to win the box office battle which occurred during Diwali 2008 and became an average hit at the South Indian box office. The film, which featured music from Yuvan Shankar Raja, is remade drawing inspirations from the 1986 Hollywood venture, Back to School as well as the 2004 Bollywood film, Main Hoon Na.
Plot
Aegan's story is based around the mission Shiva (Ajith Kumar), a CBI officer and his efforts to foil the terrorist John Chinnappa (Suman). Major Shiva is simultaneously attempting to mend relations with his father's estranged first wife and his half-brother Narain (Navdeep) complications ensue.
Major John Chinnappa is a scientist who had created tablets via the production of operating on human guinea pigs. Furthermore, his ploys have always been contoversial but unconclusive due to the lack of witnesses. However an ex-gang member, General Ram Prasad (Devan), became a police approver and is on the verge of revealing Chinnappa's ploys to the police, however he is on the run himself to avoid charges. The case falls to Lieutanant Karthikeyan (Nassar), Major Shiva's father, who had ordered his decommission, who assigns his son, Shiva, to go and help solve the mission. Karthik proceeds and tells Shiva to attend college in Tamil Nadu called St. John’s College, Ooty, to protect Ram Prasad's daughter, Pooja (Piaa Bajpai), from meeting with her father. Shiva pleads that he has never seen a civilian college before and doesn't know much about the current generation. The General points out that, by a strange coincidence, Pooja attends school in the same town where Ram Prasad is hiding, so Shiva can protect Pooja and look for Ram Prasad at the same time. Shiva goes undercover as a student returning to college after many years away taking care of the family business to complete his education. He is much older than the other students, who at first make fun of him because of his lack of new-generation styles. He also has to deal with the many goofy teachers as well the idiotic forgetful principal of the college, Albert (Jayaram), as well.
He finds Narain who is later revealed to be Shiva's brother. Pooja is Narain's best friend and his secretly jealous that other girls can get his attention but she can't. Shiva saves Pooja from John Chinnapa's men, who kidnap her while Narain and others mistake it to be a prank. He later becomes a sensation among the students and teachers and also befriending Narain and Pooja and falls in love with the chemistry teacher Mallika (Nayantara)after being attracted by her beauty and in a bid to convince other students that he is one among them. During his regular jogging sessions Shiva spots Ram Prasad and chases him till he escapes with the help of an helmet clad bike rider who is later revealed to be Narain. Pooja comes to know that Narain has been helping her father and feels cheated by him. Narain tries to apologize with Pooja many times but she refuses to talk to him. Irked by this Narain drinks and explains his actions when John's men come again to kidnap Pooja. They beat up Narain but Shiva comes to their rescue. Narain and Pooja patch up after the fight sequences. Shiva takes Narain to his home when he comes to know that Narain is his brother and gets to meet his mother. The flashback sequences describe the childhood of Shiva ( he is an orphan ) and explain why Shiva's mother and father live separately. The next day when Pooja introduces Ram Prasad to Shiva, Shiva arrests him much to the disappointment of Pooja and Narain. Then everyone in the college including Mallika comes to know that Shiva is a policeman. Shiva then drives Ram Prasad straight to John Chinnapa's hiding place avoiding the traps that he had set. A fight ensues between Shiva and John Chinnappa's men in which he is finally killed. In the final scenes Mallika is shown with Shiva's parents and brother while he himself has gone to Afghanisthan as part of another mission.
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