Anil too suprises. His range of performing abilities swing irreconcilably from the nudge-nudge-wink-wink innuendos of "Race 2" on the 70mm screen to the mature panther-like agility of a family man coping with a national crisis in "24" on the portable screen. It's a dream role, and one into which Anil sinks his teeth with restrained relish.
Nowhere does he over-do the bravura, even in that intrinsically cocky sequence where he injects glucose into his insufferable senior pretending it would kill the boor in seconds.
Such writing would conventionally be considered wasted on television, a medium that has so far been treated as a lair for leftover talent from cinema. In one brilliant stroke Anil shows what can be achieved on that much-abused space in your living room.
