Mahaan is the latest Tamil film which has officially releases on OTT platform Amazon Prime on February 10, 2022. The screentime of this crime drama is around 2 hours 42 minutes.
Story: The story of this film revolves around Vikram aka Gandhi Mahaan, whose grandfather and father were freedom fighters and they have protested for banning liquor in Tamil Nadu. The film start in 1968, where we see that the younger version of Mahaan had to live the life like their parents and always remain in protest of liquor ban. Well, the grown up Mahaan is now a simple teacher with a wife and a son. He thinks that his life is boring and he hasn’t lived his life at all. On his 40th birthday, Mahaan decides to do everything his heart wants on the very day. He drinks and smoke and returns home. Mahaan wife gets angry on him as he drink liquor and left the house with her son. She never returned to him, on the other hand, Mahaan along with the help of his friend Bobby Simha aka Sathyavan starts liquor brand Sooraa. Over the years, Mahaan has built Sooraa liquor as a big brand and earns big money in return. One fine day, Mahaan son Dhruv Vikram aka Dada returns to his father and tell him that he is now a policeman. Dada says to Mahaan that he will destroy the Sooraa liquor brand and even kill all the people except his own father. What will Mahaan do to now? Will he save his business and stop his son Dada to create more problem into the liquor business is what this story is all about.
This movie also stars Simran aka Naachi, Vani Bhojan aka Mangai, Sananth aka Rocky, Deepak Paramesh and many others in titular roles.
The early reviews of Mahaan movie is out now and they are in a range of 3 to 3.5 stars out of 5 stars.
Bollywood Crazies Opinion: Whether it’s Petta (2019) or Jagame Thandhiram (2021), Karthik Subbaraj is one of the best directors of India who make great gangster based action films. Here too, the director has made a good entertainer that audience will surely enjoy. Watching, Vikram and Dhruv Vikram in the same frame is a treat to watch. The film is majorly focuses on Vikram’s character Mahaan and its unconventional journey in life from good to bad. Dhruv gets a very late entry in this film, just before Interval, but he left a big impressions as he comes to picture till the last frame. Dhruv has worked really hard and it looks visible through his dialogue and performance. The story is good and the screenplay has been aptly presented which make this film entertaining. It is not at all a boring film and you will remind of Vikram’s Aparichit (2005) character in few of the scenes, especially during the first fight scene in this film. The production value is good and the rich visuals gives more meaning to the story. Performance wise, Vikram and his son both did their best. We all know, Dhruv will take few more years to give us more ease and powerful performance, still it is a good attempt from him. The emotions seems missing in this film which is why it won’t impact you much but the actions and writing are good enough. I really like the way the first fight scene of this film has been filmed. It looked like the whole fight scene has been shot in a one take and it look real. Such kind of action scenes I have seen in Shivaay (2016) film of Ajay Devgn. The music is decent and the editing work is also ok for me. In sort, Mahaan is surely a good action film but less on emotional quotient.
Mahaan movie has been written and directed by Karthik Subbaraj. It has been produced by S S Lalit Kumar. The cinematography has been done by Shreyaas Krishna and the editing work taken care by Vivek Harshan. The musical score has been given by Santhosh Narayanan.
Mahaan movie budget hasn’t been revealed by the makers but it could reportedly be around 35 to 40 crores.
Altogether, Mahaan is one of those action entertainers that you can easily watch it once with your family and friends.
Last Word: Watch it for Vikram and Dhruv Vikram. Also watch it for its action scenes.
Bollywood Crazies Ratings: Mahaan Review- Distinction (70 Percent Out Of 100).
