The promo of Maran reminded all of us that a pen is more powerful than a sword. Now the time has come for Karthik Naren to use it
promo for marani Remind us all that a pen is mightier than a sword. Now the time has come for Karthik Naren to use it
On the surface, you can say that marani A thriller about an investigative journalist who faces the heat of a politician for his ‘explosive’ report against him. But the real thrill for us is to investigate the events that came about by a director approving the budget for an unfinished work that had once made a grand debut.
marani, in every way, looks like an eerie mish-mash of sequences randomly stitched together to meet the deadline. In that sense, it Of course the editor Prasanna belongs to GK, as Karthik Naren and the team must have figured out what kind of film they were making, only on the editing table.
Not to take anything away from the technicians involved and their hard work, but the film should have been finished before it even started. I use the word ‘scrap’ because maraniThe script has a major pit at the heart of it: the lack of a central idea; Story or the womb of the soul – whatever you call it. The sad part is that it seems that no one including Kartik Naren realized this when they still had the chance.
Before he wrote, I imagined the discussion room to be something like this: “Okay, boys, we’ve got the bow and samuthirakani dates today. Come early, suggest scenes.” marani The film seems to have been written based on the availability of the cast on a given day. How else would you justify?
For example, take a sequence of 10 minutes in any film. As a rule of thumb, the scene needs to be moved from point A to point B in order to set up the next sequence. note how marani, the scene is not right from the beginning. The transition from Point A to Point B doesn’t happen here because the filmmaker has no idea but to make a film about an investigative journalist. Why? because investigative journalists are Cold, Does the film at least live up to that? No, after the first half hour, Dhanush as investigative journalist Maran ceases to exist and Dhanush, Anna’s avenger for his thangachi, is at the fore. Should we laugh? Weeping? Or do both?
The writing is terrible. Maran is a multiple award winning investigative journalist with a cover in a national magazine. Guess the name of the organization he writes for… News. Guess how he impressed his boss during the interview by posting a viral tweet… is the producer She Unaware of their own subject matter. But, but, there is a “twist”. A Christopher Nolan-level twist. She marani is one thangachi Bhavna film under the guise of an investigative thriller.
We’ve seen this danger before Valimai Very. What is the fetish of writing overly sentimental scenes for a genre that is anything but family drama? We don’t know. But it is clear that such filmmakers lack direction. And Kartik Naren does not come across as a passionate filmmaker, at least from what we have seen of him so far!
As far as the plot is concerned, Satyamurthy (Ramki) is an investigative journalist. His wife is pregnant with a second child, which means that in the rule book of Tamil cinema, she will not last more than the 10 minute mark on the screen. Satyamurthy is murdered in front of his son Maran to expose a corrupt politician. That is, brothers and sisters are on their own. Which also means it’s a kick-ass Rajini movie template from the 80s.
Maran grows up to be what his father was. This is the only part of the film that seems complete. Note how Dhanush is introduced in this film. Ask yourself what does this say about the character he played? nothing. Note how Samuthirakani is presented as a one-dimensional politician-villain. In the above scene, he informs the party leader that he will take care of the journalist who busted him. like seriously? But, but, the best scene should be the one where we find out that Maran and Thara (Malavika Mohanan) are romantically linked to Maran’s sister (Smriti Venkat). The rest are a whole new level of bland.
promo for marani Remind us all that a pen is mightier than a sword. Now the time has come for Karthik Naren to use it.
marani Streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.