Story

Maari, a goon, constantly troubles the people in his locality and extorts money from them. But his life changes when Sridevi, a pretty woman, falls in love with him.

To start with, Balaji has done a fab job in creating the “Maari” effect to Dhanush, the actor’s costume and body language itself is enough to boost the heroism aroma around, as a typical local rowdy he is seen in a loosely buttoned beach shirt and veshti, a cool roundabout coolers, enough jewelry for a dowry, sports a street type hairdo, walks and smokes around with an arrogance and of course two sidekicks – sunny(Robo Shankar) and Adithangi to add mass.

The plot is pretty straight forward, a local rowdy whose meteoric rise in the colony has made him win some peer jealousy, then there is a police officer around who tries to trick his way around to corner the goon and yes there is this beautiful heroine who starts off with negative impressions only to change her mind later.


Dhanush carries the character of Maari through his back with limited punch dialogues and one liners, to quote a few– “Yaar Paathu da rowdy maathirinu sonna... Rowdy thanda” and “Kalapadamana Nallavana Irukarathoda...Suthamana Kettavana Irundhadalamae”, these are dialogues induced specifically to show the character’s nature and yes of course an arousing round of whistles and claps from the audience. The screenplay continues to entice by showcasing the hero’s mass, thanks to Dhanush’s sidekicks the film is kept lively.

Vijay Yesudas after enchanting us with his lovely vocals all these years makes debut as a Police man, starts off rather interesting but the plot, screenplay and dialogues makes him finish of as a just about villain cop. With pranks, a firm cop, rival gangs and a whiff of romance from the newly moved in girl – Kajal the plot chugs along until the director springs open a twist - who actually is the bad guy, Maari or the cops? Well watch and find out!