Maari Review – Maari is a Tamil commercial comedy drama released in 2015. Maari is a local goon who lives by collecting money from the locals. His passion is pigeon race and an undisputed winner. Things change when sub-inspector Arjun takes charge in that area.
The movie is an out and out commercial drama that is just made to woo the first day fanfare. Director Balaji Mohan has a very good talent in creating comical situations but when it comes to action sequences it is not turning out to be effective. The story and the conflict were very weakly portrayed and some of the twists were very subtle and took a much predictable route. The build up for the hero for overdone to please the fanfare.
Dhanush has tried his best to do justice to the role and his performance is the one that lifts the movie on occasions apart from the comedy scenes. Robo Shankar playing the comedian is a refreshing change. The production quality of the movie is overall good. Particularly a lot of effort has gone into give it an aesthetic appeal. The music score was a different one from Anirudh. However it gets jarring after a while. Vijay Yesudas does well only in parts. His range of expressions is minimum to portray a wicked Villain. Kajal Agarwal is used as a eye candy for the visuals.
High Points: Comedy, Production quality, Costumes, Performance of Dhanush, Robo Shankar’s comedy
Low Points: Absence of core conflict, overdoing of build up scenes, Many characters are present in the movie but seldom used.
Overall Maari’s story is not a compelling one to be told and seen. If you love Masala movies and an ardent fan of Dhanush performance you can give it a try. If not you can watch it when it is played on TV.
Wait for DVD/TV
I am going to wait a lot for this one 😀
Are you sure … 😛
Yes, and then I will die because I waited so much 😀
LOL 😀
nice commedy in the comments…commedy works in different ways..it has to be genuinely comical for max effect…n that ghajni movie first part had lot of sweet commedy…something not over done… there are very few movies in tamil for good commedy…there is lot of cheap violent sort of commedy, the more refined population won’t enjoy…i am very sure I can make more quality tamil serials than wat they show out there and I will provably pick commedy(: anyway…perhapes we all have bad sense of humour though that is not right to say. You may like this stand up commedian… he is the best available, the rest actually do suck):…talk about nonsense which general guys take it as cool… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isK4gwC7muc
Comedy is definitely hard to do… I liked the video you had shared… thanks for sharing