Maasilamani – Interesting on more parts

Banner: Sun Pictures, AGS Entertainment

Production: Kalanidhi Maaran, Kalapathy S Agoram

Story, Screenplay, Dialogues and Direction: RNR Manohar

Star-casts: Nakul, Sunaina, Pawan, Karunas, Santhanam, Srinath, M S Bhaskar, Raj Kapoor, Santhana Bharathi, Delhi Ganesh, Meera Krishna, Manobala, Tharani and many others.

Music: D. Imman

‘Kadhalil Vizhundhen’ perhaps could’ve been commercially successful with the wild marketing of Sun Pictures. But to be incisive, this endeavor with ‘Maasilamani’ is quite commendable from the point-view of ‘B’ and ‘C’ centres. Director Manohar who strikes with his debut directorial after penning dialogues for various Tamil films has proved himself to be brilliant on penning smart-moved plots. Although, few amongst them in screenplay are illustrating to be absurd, they’re diminished with the good packaging.

After a long time, we tend to hear whistles of cheering from audiences for the fast beat songs. Applause to Imman indeed!

The film’s script is so simple. Born and brought up across the lanes of Rani Anna Nagar slum, Maasilamani is an aggressive youngster who strikes violently when unjust troubles his colony members. He falls in love with Divya (Sunaina) hailing from a rich background and well-pampered by her family members. Eventually, rest of the film is about the girl mistaking the boy to be a ruffian and later how this lad wins over her heart with smart moves forms crux of the story.

The screenplay is so interesting especially in the latter part once Pawan, the police officer is introduced. The protagonist’s smart moves are so decorously planted by Manohar, especially the climax portions with lots of fun and equivalently emotions. However, the filmmaker could’ve avoided the lengthy-dragging dialogues and got it trimmed in climax as audiences are quite perplexed what she wants to convey.

Although, there are certain loopholes in the racy-screenplay, it isn’t much blatant to your cognizance if you’ve merely planned to sit back and relax. The film has much funny movements that are quite enjoyable. MS Bhaskar enacting the role of various actors from Rajnikanth till ‘Ghajini’ Surya is hilarious. Santhanam-Srinath combo works the best alike in ‘Santhosh Subramaniam’. Nakul has improved a lot from his previous film and behaves much matured. Sunaina looks so contrastive from her debut flick as she has lots of rooms for performance, uttering dialogues and glamorous quotients.

Musical score by Imman embellishes the film with good songs. ‘Odi Odi’ is a peppy fast beat number that wins the applause from audiences. Thiru’s cinematography is okay and he could’ve avoided certain shakes on his camera.

On the whole, ‘Maasilamani’ is a film you can watch once if you’re not so concerned about logics.

Verdict: Watch it once (2.5)

Richard Mahesh

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