As I am suffering from Maari 2

Sometimes, it’s tempting to put your hands up in resignation, and stop discussing films like Maari 2. Why do we even have to analyse about the romanticisation of nobility and aristocracy of film-making and cinema? You also have to wonder: Just because you are related to a certain senior celebrity in the film fraternity, you get to produce such films. 

When the film industry keeps talking about piracy and how responsible audience need to be, I want to ask the same question to these guys. At the same time, we can’t really blame film-makers these days who don’t even care to get the wig right for their actors, what more getting a right story for a film? 

On that note of wigs and hairstyle, the villain in Maari 2, Tovino Thomas appears a villain in the first half with a weird hairstyle. Yevan da Chennai veyiluku ivalavu neelama mudi valaruthu vachu irukaradhu? 

Just like how a mother character in kalyana veedu sun tv serial (don’t ask me why I watch serials, I am watching every crap made these days) pours a huge pot of water over his son’s head in the hope that his sins are washed off, let me write this review to wash off my sins as well.

Watching Maari 2 is like sitting with your boss and receiving a bad appraisal from him. You can’t really walk out half-way, even if it is lung-ripping, soul-crushing, mind-numbing. Like the hero in Maari 2 who roars ‘senjiruven’ that became a trigger tool to disrupt your angst-producing cells, I have to succumb to saying ‘nonthuduven’.

Dhanush’s introduction scene informs the audience of the 99 attempts made to kill him and all that become utter failure. One of the attempts is that Maari is given poisoned rice. But it doesn't kill him because the alcohol level in him is higher than the poison and that the posion gets ‘cancelled out’. I wonder if Nithayanda is the dialogue writer for this scene. If only they had asked Maari to watch Maari 2, the first attempt itself would have been successful.

So that Maari through this Maari is killing this Maari.

After all that protests against women objectification, celebrating stalking and body shaming women, Tamil filmmakers these days have decided- let’s just put an end to these protests. So these days, script writers throw ‘bold’ women characters. 

So these women are part of the film to either be on a non-stop scowling spree and exclaim “Thu Theri!”, usually roles donned by yesteryear actresses or their daughters OR create characters like ‘Araathu’ Ananthi (Sai Pallavi in Maari 2), who are indeed an upgraded 2.0version of loosu heroines with sling bags.

In one scene, Sai Pallavi gets frustrated with Dhanush for not accepting their love, she weeps and angrily asks Maari why he couldn’t feel her love and affection. If Sai Pallavi’s first film were Maari 2, what we did to ShruthiHassan’s career graph could have happened to Sai Pallavi as well. Once again, proving that if a film is bad, then its dad the director has to be blamed. What we deeply loved about ‘Malar’ in Premam, is completely ruined in Maari 2 by Sai Pallavi.

The only saving grace is the choreography of 'Rowdy Baby' song where Sai Pallavi scores well. 

And so the hero confesses to ShruthiHassan’s long lost cousin sister- that he doesn’t know how to handle this overhelming love/paasam that she showers on him. His reason is that he has never gotten one before. If you think Prabhu in Chinnathambi, who went on a village tour with Khushboo, didn’t know the meaning of thali probably had a low IQ, then Maari is his classmate who shares the same IQ.

Kajal Agarwal and pigeons from Maari 1, possibly couldn’t handle this low-IQ fellow and had flown to Paris.

In the climax fight, Dhanush flaunts his CG-sixpack body.

Aamaa, carku yethuku achaani?