Maaran (film)

Maaran is a 2002 Indian Tamil crime film, directed by A. Jawahar, starring Sathyaraj, Seetha and Manivannan's son Raghuvannan in lead roles. The film, produced by J. S. Pankaj Mehta, had musical score by Deva and was released on 20 September 2002.[1][2] The film was a moderate success at the box office.

Maaran
DVD cover
Directed byA. Jawahar
Produced byJ. S. Pankaj Mehta
Written byA. Jawahar
Pattukkottai Prabakar (dialogues)
Starring
Music byDeva
CinematographyU.K. Senthil Kumar
Edited bySai Elango
Production
company
Power Media
Release date
  • 20 September 2002 (2002-09-20)
Running time
150 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

Maaran (Sathyaraj) is a clerk in the district collector’s office. His life centres around his loving wife (Seetha), his son (Raghuvannan), and his daughter (Preethi Varma). Soft-spoken, and a Gandhian to the hilt, Maaran does not stand by any smear on the Mahatma’s name. Being a staunch patriot, he had even named his son Sudhandhiram.

After topping at the state level, Sudhandhiram gets an admission in a medical college, where he is in for a rough time, ragged mercilessly by the sadistic Shivadas (Robert) and his cronies. Nonetheless, Anjali (Santhoshi) falls in love with Sudhandhiram. Matters run wild when Sudhandhiram returns Shivadas’s humiliations with a tight slap and defeats him in the college elections. Shivadas's humiliation makes matters even wild when Sudhandhiram pays for it with his life. Shivadas packs the corpse in a suitcase and disposes of it. But soon, Shivadas is hauled up for the murder. However, Shivadas manages to get a clean chit of the case thanks to his influential father (Ravikumar). Seetha becomes a lunatic due to the emotional shock. The grieving Maaran takes it upon himself to justify his son’s murder.

Maaran traces out the conspirators one by one, and have their evil terminate themselves, justifying his own way of justice. In the end, Maaran kills the doctor and gets surrounded in the court. He is hanged in jail.

Cast

Production

Maaran’ is directed by A. Jawahar, who had apprenticed with directors Senthilnathan & Sunder C. This is his first film. While Deva composes the music, cinematography is by U.K.Senthilkumar, editing by Sai Illango, art by R.K.Nagu and stunt arrangements by Super Subbarayan.

Playing the role of Satyaraj's son is debutant Raghuvannan, son of actor-director Manivannan. Raghu is paired with Santhoshi, an actress of the small screen and one of the leads in Agathyan’s ‘Kaadhal Samrajyam’. Sharat Babu, Hanifas, Devan, Pallavi, Delhi Ganesh, Raj Kapoor, Ilavarasu and Robert, brother of dancer-actress Alphonsa play the supporting roles.[3]

Soundtrack
Maaran
Soundtrack album by
Deva
Released2002
Recorded2002
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length25:01
LabelFive Star Audio
ProducerDeva

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composer Deva. The soundtrack, released in 2002, features 5 tracks with lyrics written by P. Vijay.[4][5]

TrackSongSinger(s)Duration
1"Aanantham Aanantham"Unni Menon, Sujatha Mohan5:07
2"Felomina Ni Enthan"S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. P. B. Charan, Mathangi4:08
3"Kannukulle"Unni Menon5:33
4"Pudi Pudi Kabadi"Anuradha Sriram5:14
5"Queen Marys"Silambarasan Rajendar4:59

Reception

The film received generally mixed to positive reviews. AllIndianSite.com cited the film as "a good movie and worth watching".[6] Malathi Ragarajan of hindu.com said : "Maaran takes off so well and so differently but the maker obviously got jittery mid-way and allows regular formula fare to take over, with revenge as the pivot."[7]

gollark: They do if you kill them as a direct result of your action.
gollark: Maybe you could trade for 3d ones.
gollark: Or focus intensely for one hour.
gollark: It's a shame that the NDing process takes a while or we could afford to focus more on actual experimentation.
gollark: ARing.

References
  1. "Find Tamil Movie Maaran". jointscene.com. Archived from the original on 27 April 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  2. "Filmography of maaran". cinesouth.com. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20020911201336/http://www.chennaionline.com/location/maaran.asp
  4. "Maaran Songs". oosai.com. Archived from the original on 15 December 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  5. "Maaran — Deva". thiraipaadal.com. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  6. "AllIndianSite.com — Maran- It's All About the movie". kollywood.allindiansite.com. Archived from the original on 8 May 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  7. Malathi Rangarajan (27 September 2002). "The Hindu: Maaran". Hindu.com. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
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