Maari Tamil Movie Review

The only saving grace in the film is Dhanush with his stylish looks and attire and above all his heroism in a larger than life character. He tries his best to infuse maximum energy into Maari but cannot save the film from sinking.
Balaji Mohan direct this film where Dhanush appear in the title protagonist role of Maari, a local goonda with a good heart. Sadly the film for a neutral audience it will be a disappointment and nothing else. Now for hardcore fans of the actor, Balaji Mohan has infused lot of punch dialogues, slow motion scenes helped by Anirudh's high octane and energy filled background score.
The film set in the backdrop of pigeon racing has Maari who is a local goon. A new police officer Arjun takes charge of the area and start digging into a murder that happened few years back as part of collecting evidence to put Maari under the bars. A local rivalry with another goon of the area and the cliched romance for our heroine for the hero are also part of the story.
Maari may cater to a select class of audience mainly fans of Dhanush and is primarily a movie made with a target viewers in mind. But for others there is nothing that makes you exciting except watching the heroics of the protagonist for a major part of the film.
Dhanush does what all he can in the best possible way to suit a larger than life goonda with all of those looks and colourful local attire.
Kajol Aggarwal has to play the traditional and cliched heroine who has to first show hatred and anger for the hero first and later fall in love with him. Vijay Yesudas makes his big screen debut as a police officer and he has not made it look bad on screen. But the writing was a bit half baked for that character. Robo Shankar as Maari's right hand was able to impress and make a good impact while rest of the actors were just okay.
Best part after Dhanush was Anirudh's rocking BGM that gave the character of Dhanush a big push. Cinematography was also on the brighter side. Some trimming was badly needed on the editing table.
I think Magic Frames and Listin Stephen has got it somewhat wrong in the selection of the script as Maari disappoints. As a die hard fan of Dhanush, you can watch it for his heroics or else I think you can very well give it a skip. The rating is two out of five.
Rating - 2 / 5