Review of Maamannan

Maamannan (2023)
6/10
Good but....
29 June 2023
Due to the influence of Mariselvaraj's previous works, the film has created a lot of anticipation. If you ask me, does this film gave the impact of what his previous film did?, I would say no.

As a complete political film, this film stands out of its own.

The director has a clear vision on the politics.

Although this film doesn't deals anything new but gave the eloborate vision on the caste based politics.

Belonging to a scheduled caste (respective of this film's story), an MLA is being rejected to get the respect as a senior politician by his party's union leader and other party officials.

Disturbed by their by the party's action personally and how his father is being treated by the leader of the party though he was a senior politician, conflict rises between the MLA's son and the party's union head.

However the flashbacks are important to the story, it lags the movie. It's the core for the film but it doesn't feel attached to the viewer.

The screenplay was loosely structured as it makes the film boring at some part.

The characters were developed good.

Though the screenplay was ineffective, All the characters were given equal space as that helps the viewers stick into the story.

Really need to mention that, Fahad Fazil (who performed as a politician) completely stands out of all artists by his extraordinary performance. Though we all know about how excellent he is at acting, in this film he gave his unique acting performance which we can't see in his previous films.

Even though it was a dull paced film, he was the one who carried the film single-handedly till the end.

Keerthy suresh's performance showed his excellence.

Vadivelu, a well known face across India who's known mainly for his versatile acting comedy roles, performed a serious role in this film.

I would say it worked 50-50.

Not only me but some audience in theaters found it difficult to accept him in a serious role. May be it would be the settle performance he gave for his character.

I think it's because we are used to see him do a lot of flexible and physical involvement in body language and variety of face expressions.

A. R. Rahman's Background score wasn't that much impressive. In few scenes it worked and in few it doesn't. Songs were quite good.

Other technical works weren't like mentionable.

Personally I liked director Mari Selvaraj's handling of cinema language. Throughout the film he made it compelling.

Especially in scene1, he used it to establish hero and villan in means of juxtaposition of dogs with pigs.

He openly states that he uses more metaphors in his film, this film is not an exception of that.

Well... Though doesn't fullfilled the expectations, some positive things made this as a good film.
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