Maaran Tamil Movie Review-;
Cast-;
Dhanush ,Malavika Mohanan , Samuthirakani , Smruthi Venkat , Ramki , Jayaprakash , Aadukalam Naren , Bose Venkat , Mahendran , Ameer , Ilavarasu , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian and Others.
Crew-;
Directer – Karthick Naren , Written – Karthick Naren , Screenplay – Naveen , Dialogues – Vivek , Producers – T. G. Thyagarajan * Sendhil Thyagarajan , Arjun Thyagarajan , Cinematography – Vivekanand Santhosham , Editer – Prasanna G. K. Music – G. V. Prakash Kumar , Production company – Sathya Jyothi Films , Distributer – Disney+ Hotstar , P R O – Suresh Chandra ,Rekha D’One and Others .
Story-;
Mathimaaran is an investigative journalist. Maaran loses his parents in a tragedy at a very young age, and he is the only caretaker for his younger sister. While growing, his mind yearns to become an honest journalist like his father. Maaran investigates the politicians and biggies and reveals about them. Due to this, he earns a lot of ene mies. As usual, he explores a politician, who is involved in a scam, who in turn challenges Maaran. What happens to Maaran? Will he overcome the troubles? The rest of the film deals with it.After the tragic death of his sister, Maaran( Dhanush), an investigative journalist decides to crack the case individually. In the process, he goes agai nst a powerful politician Pazhani( Samuthirakani). Who kills Maaran’s sister? Why will Maaran suspect Pazhani in his sister’s death mystery? How will Maaran be able to track the main head behind the mysterious crime case, forms the rest of the story.
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Movie Review-;
Maaran (Dhanush) is an upright investigative journalist who takes on the powerful people in society. He loses his father for the same reason and his mother passes away delivering his sister. A kid himself, Maaran raises her himself. While unearthing an EVM scam, he gets himself and his sister into trouble, what happens next forms the rest of the story. Director Karthick Naren is someone who made heads turn with his debut flick Dhuruvanga Pathinaaru at the age of 22. The movie is still considered as one of the best thrillers with a breathtaking climax twist in the history of Tamil cinema. His subsequent projects, Mafia and the last outing, Project Agni, (a segment of the popular anthology Navarasa), though received mixed response, weren’t bad.Dhanush has performed well in the character of an investigative journalist and a dotting brother.
But when we ask a question if he is at his best? – definitely not. The writing is so poor that either of the character shades is not established well and so, there is not much scope for performance. Film lovers still had high hopes for him when he announced Maaran with Dhanush playing the titular role. Unfortunately, the film ends up as a terrible disappointment, making it the weakest movie in his career. In the end, we feel Dhanush has done well but not to what we expect from him. It’s not the case only with Dhanush, it happens with every one in the film due to bad writing. Malavika Mohanan is the female lead in the film and she plays Dhanush’s colleague. It is more of a sidekick role and barely has anything significant. Smruthi Venkat plays the sister role and she is again okay.
Samuthirakani plays a baddie politician and is fine in whatever offered it. Mahendran plays the police officer and is strictly okay. Ramki plays a small role in the flashback and is fine. Director Karthick Naren is someone who made heads turn with his debut flick Dhuruvanga Pathinaaru at the age of 22. The movie is still considered as one of the best thrillers with a breathtaking climax twist in the history of Tamil cinema. His subsequent projects, Mafia and the last outing, Project Agni, (a segment of the popular anthology Navarasa), though received mixed response, weren’t bad.Film lovers still had high hopes for him when he announced Maaran with Dhanush playing the titular role.
Unfortunately, the film ends up as a terrible disappointment, making it the weakest movie in his career. Mathi maaran (Dhanush) is a journalist who isn’t scared of writing truth which makes others uncomfortable. He has never had a long stint in his career because of his in-your-face attitude. After being jobless for a while, Maaran joins a news channel after displaying his talent before the editorial team during the interview. He takes up a case related to a big scam which has Palani (Samuthirakani), a former state minister, involved in it. Palani is contesting in the upcoming by-election and is hell-bent on winning it at any cost. Maaran, along with Thara (Malavika Mohanan), hatches a plan to trap Palani.
A film is all about a good story and how it is grippingly narrated. Maaran is primarily an investigative journalist’s story and the conflict in the story arrives due to the sister character. That implies we should have strong portion s of a gripping investigative story and emotions. But Maaran has neither. The shrewd politician decides to finish off Maaran, but the latter smartly escapes from murder attempts a couple of times. A peeved Palani changes his plan and kidnaps Maaran’s sister. Will he be able to save his young sibling from the clutches of the notorious politician?There are several examples where effective screenplays have made regular revenge stories and cat-and-mouse games that are as old as the hills gripping.
Maaran, too, has a wafer-thin story, which is sadly made worse with a terrible screenplay which offers no take away for viewers.The film starts with the flashback of how Maaran’s father gets killed while exposing a scam. His mother passes away delivering his sister. Maaran has to raise her himself. The father’s final words and the oath to protect his sister forms the crux of the hero character. It is good on paper but we do not have any strong scen es to establish it.Once the story moves to the present, the bonding between the hero and his sister is never show cased. Only once an attempt is made when she gets injured in a park fight but it is so toothless. The inve stigative journalism in the EVM Scam is of the stone age material.
We may have seen that in NTR, ANR, Rajinikanth films of the 1980s. The love track is one more disaster. To begin with, no single character development has been worked effectively because of which we hardly empathize with the problems the protagonist undergoes. It is often said in the film that Maaran is a daring investigative journa list who is also quite intelligent. But there isn’t any scene which showcases the character’s smartness or adventu rous nature.The events that follow and the sister sentiment that comes later are written very badly. The hero go ing after the culprits trying to solve the case also does not offer anything new. The so-called twists which the dir ector may have considered as ‘twists’ bore us completely. The whodunnit portions are not handled well.
The only surprise comes towards the end but by that time, viewers are completely exhausted and leave all hopes of any redemption. There is a good 20 minutes film after that with another mini flashback and it is again boring. The antagonist played by Samuthirakani leaves no impact, thanks to the lack of detailing on the character. This has made the hero-villain conflict unimpressive. Despite a shorter run time of 2 hours and 10 mins, we lose in te rest in the proceedings mid-way. There are a couple of twists created for the namesake and those unexpected moments hardly evoke any interest among the viewers. Maaran is the latest Tamil film which has a plot involving a brother-sister bonding.
Despite developing a not-so-bad flashback in the beginning which establishes their solid relationship, the equa tion between them falters after a point because of the directionless screenplay.Finally, Maaran is that kind of a film that shows the mirror for Dhanush. The actor of his potential should make wise choices or else, we keep ge tting this kind of films. Malavika’s female lead role started off on an interesting note, thanks to the absence of love at first sight scenes and mandatory romantic songs. But this character, too, is ignored as the story progres ses. Actors like Aadukalam Naren, Ilavarasu and Master Mahendran do not have much to do. A cameo by an act or-filmmaker in the pre-climax and an emotional portion involving a father-daughter falls flat.
The fight sequences by Silva are okayish, while cinematography is unimpressive. The background score and son gs, too, do not impress. Karthick Naren is the major culprit of the film with insipid work in the writing and dire ct ion departments. GV Prakash has come up with disappointing songs. The background score, however, is good in bits and pieces. Vivekanand Santhosham’s cinematography is also disappointing and adds to the ‘routine/old’ st ory. Prasanna GK’s editing is again a weak link. Some of the disappointing films which feature a big, talented he ro end up becoming watchable in parts because of the actors’ presence or due to the impressive manner in which they have pulled off their character. However, in Maaran, a gifted performer like Dhanush, too, looks clueless be cause of the criminally boring writing and execution.
This IS MY Personal Review So Please Go And Watch The Movie In Disney+ Hotstar OTT platform
Written By- T.H.PRASAD -B4U-Ratting-4 /5
