Aankhen (2002)

Directed by

Vipul Amrutlal Shah

Genre

heist film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 45m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 76 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A bank employee is fired unjustly after a lifetime of service. He plans a heist using three blind men as his robbers to avoid suspicion.

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What happens

Aankhen (transl. Eyes) is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language heist crime thriller film directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Arjun Rampal, Sushmita Sen, Paresh Rawal and Aditya Pancholi. The film is an adaptation of Shah's own Gujarati stage play Andhalo Pato (transl. Blindman's Buff). The film tells the story of Vijay Singh Rajput (Bachchan) a hard-working but temperamental man, who has spent all his life working for a bank. When he is unlawfully fired, he decides to take vengeance by organizing a heist, and having the bank robbed by three blind men (Kumar, Rampal and Rawal), as no one will suspect them. Aankhen had its worldwide premiere in Malaysia at the 3rd IIFA Awards ceremony on 5 April 2002. Upon release, Aankhen was praised for its concept, story line and direction. It turned out to be the fifth highest-grossing Hindi film of the year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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