Producer: Gaurang Doshi 
Director: Vipul Shah 
Cast: Paresh Rawal, Sushmita Sen, Arjun Rampal, Akshay Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan
Music: Adesh Shrivastava

Imagine a Hollywood thriller with songs, dances (item and otherwise), stretching three hours and having all those usual dull moments in those hours when you want to leave the theatre and walk out.
Vipul Shah’s Aankhen is all that and more. Thus you have Vijay Singh Rajput (Amitabh Bachchan) as the manager of Vilasrao Jefferson bank. He has chosen celibacy to prove his dedication to his work. But his pent-up frustrations burst out against his employees --- the watchman caught sleeping on the job, the cashier who tries to siphon off a few notes before he hands it over the counter.

After he beats the living daylights out of the nincompoop sweaty cashier, Rajput is fired from the bank he has served for over 25 years.

The official reason for his behaviour is that Rajput has schizophrenia, which explains why he is obsessed with taking revenge on his employers and co-workers all of which some of us fantasize about through our lives. The only difference is that Rajput goes a step further and does what others only dream of doing get even with the bosses.

He decides to extract his revenge by robbing the bank and finds a cast of three blind men, Vishwas Prajapati (Akshay Kumar), Arjun Verma (Arjun Rampal) and Ilias (Paresh Rawal). Svelte teacher Neha Srivastav (Sushmita Sen) also carries out his bidding.
While the three blind men are in it for the money, Neha plays along because Rajput has her younger brother captive. Using her skills as a teacher, Neha simulates the bank's interiors and teaches the trio the tricks to pull off the heist.

After over 40 days of training in a simulated environment, the three blind men step into the bank to pull off the most novel bank robbery Bollywood has seen. How they do it forms the rest of the film.
Aankhen is an example that Indian directors and producers can pull out movie with the same sleekness that we appriciate Hollywood directors for. The movie is bold in the Hindi cinema parlance, for the plot doesn't lose sight of its goal -- the bank robbery -- and refuses to get side-tracked into mindless romance or songs.
Conceived and executed like a taut Hollywood thriller, Aankhen is an impressive breakaway from the cliché ridden formula filmmaking that afflicts Bollywood.

The credit for this belongs to debutant director Vipul Shah and his team. Shah is in completely in control of the film, whether it is in the dramatic sequences or developing the chemistry among the cast.
Amitabh Bachchan has turned in one of the finest performances of his career as Vijay Singh Rajput. He pulls off the most ludicrous situations with credibility and style. In a role that changes colours, starting as an upright bank officer morphing into a man obsessed with pulling off a bank robbery for revenge and finally turning into the villain who is prepared to go to any lengths to get his booty, Bachchan is glorious. A far cry from the negative character of Aks which remained highly misunderstood.
As the blind man with that extra-sensory perception, Akshay Kumar holds his own in every scene. He brush-offs with Bachchan are dramatic and he brings a quiet intelligence and depth to his role. Every time he senses the silent Rajput hovering in the background, the screen crackles with electricity.

The chemistry between him and Paresh Rawal is delightful. Akshay's thinking demeanor offsets Rawal's light-hearted quick-to-crack a joke countenance. With a role that is funny and irreverent, Rawal gathers the audience's laughs and proves his onscreen brilliance yet again.

For once Arjun Rampal falls in this movie. Seems he never understood the character that he was playing and his attempts to project him seems half backed.
Sushmita Sen's role of Neha deserves an extra round of applause. Unlike most Hindi film heroines who come across as bimbettes and whose only aim is to get into the hero's way at the climax, Neha doesn't need a man to exist. She is intelligent and capable, even during the climax.