By: Somesh Vasishth

Following Khakee's trail, Firoz Nadiadwala has also come up with a cop movie 'Aan'. While Akshay Kumar didn't find anything objectionable in portraying similar charcters in two back to back films, Big B humbly declined the producer citing his unwillingness to do so.

As a result Bihari Babu, Shatrughan Sinha, was roped to play an officer Sr. Insp. Vikram Singh, who is at the fag end of his career.

Suniel Shetty is Sub. Insp. Appa Kadam Naik, who firmly believes in eliminating criminals altogether. According to him, loopholes in law just gives them leeway to escape the punishment. Paresh Rawal is Const. Khaled Ansari, a man with a funny bone.

All of them have accepted that the corruption has seeped into the roots of the system and they are fighting a losing battle but things just shake up when a young IPS officer, DCP Hari Om Patnaik (Akshay Kumar) gets transferred there from Poona.

The friction between the ideaologies set in as they take each other head on.

On the other hand, city is being ruled by handful of a goons where politicians and criminals are working in collusion.

Manik Rao (Manoj Joshi) is the Home Minister of the state who has asked underworld don Yusuf Pathan (Irrfan Khan) to threaten businessman Ajit Pradhan (Milind Gunaji). Gautam Walia (Jackie Shroff), a rich builder and business magnate, is their accomplice.

But as the luck'd have it, Ajit gets killed and the minister finds himself in the soup.

The murder case is handed over to the DCP. This is when they resolve to uproot the crime together in spite of their differences.

Though a male dominated plot, Aan features Raveena, Lara and Preeti as the leading ladies. Lara Dutta plays Kiran and is paired opposite Akshay while Preeti Jhangiani plays Janki and is paired opposite Suniel Shetty. Raveena Tandon is Roshni, a bar dancer in the film.

Anu Malik has composed the music for the film too and Sameer has penned the lyrics.