Maaran (film)

Maaran
DVD cover
Directed by A. Jawahar
Produced by J. S. Pankaj Mehta
Written by A. Jawahar
Pattukkottai Prabakar (dialogues)
Starring
Music by Deva
Cinematography U.K. Senthil Kumar
Edited by Sai Elango
Production
company
Power Media
Release date
  • 20 September 2002 (2002-09-20)
Running time
 150 min
Country India
Language Tamil

Maaran is a 2002 Indian Tamil 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 enjoyed a moderate recognition at the box office.

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
Released 2002
Recorded 2002
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length 25:01
Label Five Star Audio
Producer Deva

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]

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 2011-12-29.
  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 2011-12-29.
  6. ↑ "AllIndianSite.com — Maran- It's All About the movie". kollywood.allindiansite.com. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
  7. ↑ Malathi Rangarajan (2002-09-27). "The Hindu: Maaran". Hindu.com. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
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