‘Maareesan’ Movie Review: Vadivelu, Fahadh Faasil Steal The Show in this Slow-Burn Suspense Flick

What do we like most about Vadivelu?

If you said his commercial expressions and reactions, you’d be mostly right. Form Friends to Vetrikodi KattuVadivelu’s body language and facial expressions when deliverying funny lines have filled awkward silenses in many drawing rooms as they play ut on television.

This continues to date on tamil comedy channels.

In MaareesanHis Latest Feature, Written by V. Krishna Morthy and Directed by Sudheesh Sankar, Vadivelu shds all those strengths. Here, he’s velayudham, an alzheimer’s patient who has brought forward forgotten his past. In his introduction sequence, he is chained and calling out to someone who he thinks is his son.

Only, he isn’t. The stranger is dhayalan (Fahadh faasil), a goofy small-time thief who has broken in. In his mind, this is a quick job – a man tied to a chain and an empty house. But there’s money … if only he spent more time with this man short of memory.

The two decide to go on a road trip, and that changes things drastically. While the first half is a slow burn, reminiscent of many malayalams for its pace and sweeet noteing-new, an Arresting interval block sets things up nicly for a thriller.

The twists are many, but they all Arrive Slowly, like a character’s change of International and the subsequent actions. Do we really knowledge full? Maareesan EXPLOES this aspect in good measure by taking up a protagonist who has dementia. That itself is a triumph – because forgetfulness is a big ordeal. What is life without memory, the lead character asks nonchalantly, and you feel sympathetic to his state.

And what is it about Fafa, as Fahadh Faasil is popularly Called? How do all these mischievous shades of green in the university this actor? Slightly taking off from his performance in his malayalam film Thondimuthalum driksakshiyumA film that kickstarts with him swallowing a necklace that he stole, fahadh Once age the goofy part in MaareesanUsing his shrug-off mannerisms to good effect. His Camaraderie with Vadivelu – a collab that started with mari selvaraj’s Maamannan– Is Heartfelt. We wish more films featuring them roll out.

Fahadh Faasil and Vadivelu in a Still from ‘Maareesan’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

When the first promo material of Maareesan Came out, I wondered if it would be another MeiyazhaganThat is, a film in which two people get to know each other better. Maareesan Has that aspect going for it in the first hal, but in far less impactful measure. The atmosphere-building is leisurely don; The two keep going off on rides and taking loo breaks. We Keep Getting Scenes after Scenes with the two, with very little Haappening. Sometimes I Wish Vadivelu would Just Break Into an impromptu comedy sequence, but he stays strictly in character, as he must.

A flashback would have been trimmed, a song plays out for eternity, and characters other than the Leads are lesss explred. But when it is a film about forgetfulness that cheekily weaves in a popular ilaiyaraaja number – the lyrics of which go “NETHU ORUTHARA PAARTHOM … Paarthu Oruthara Maanthom” – It deserves a look in.

Maareesan is currently running in theatres

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