Maamanithan movie review : Melodrama overloaded

 

Maamanithan comes from Seenu Ramaswamy whose staple audience are those who like melodrama and cliched happenings. This film however will go down in Seenu’s list as where he over did all the melodrama bit to a ridiculous level. It is quite obvious that the intention is to make Vijay Sethupathi’s Makkal Selvan image get a boost or else why would anybody title this subject as Maamanithan (great human being) when he is just an ordinary auto driver who solves his personal problem and not that of a society at large 

A realtor takes advantage of an auto driver’s dream to put his children in a convent and sells his plots using the goodwill of the do Gooder. The auto driver takes upon himself the blame of investors losing money and so he flees the city and later comes to clear his name. In some scenes, Vijay Sethupathi the actor comes out and it once again proves that the selection of subject is his undoing and not that he has lost his talent. Gaythrie has one hell of a melodrama scenes and many think that she will get a NATIONAL AWARD. I wonder why she had to fall at the feet of her hubby as it was he who committed all the blunders and got greedy. Technically nothing much to root for.  

This is for `family’ audience means those who like melodrama and for Makkal Selvan fans. Problem is that Makkal Selvan is here is not a Super Man - toughie character.  It is Yuvan Shankar Raja production and he has done little to help in elevating the music score. Lalitha chechi ( KPAC) last Tamil film, I guess.