Maravan Review

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Maravan is a Malaysian Tamil film scripted and Directed by SD Puvanendran and the original story were written by Chandru ‘ The Keys’. The film is also were produced by the story writer. Maravan is a story about a family man who very much responsible over his family as a husband and a father for two kids. He has an ambition to get a luxury life for his family and his children’s future but he can’t effort to make such a lifestyle with his earning as a rubber farmer. What’s happening to him after he chooses to go on shortcut to make easy money to achieve the lifestyle he dreamed is the story all about.

Director SD Puvanendran has scripted the story well without unnecessary dialogues and scenes. The whole concept was produced by Chandru ‘The Keys’. Even though the plot is bit familiar with current film trend which is organ smuggling but the way the story were presented on screen make the film very much fresh and not boring. In case of screenplay, there were two stories were moving together; one is the smuggling activities and another one is achieving in agriculture. It’s understandable that the story trying to portray how well is to go on agriculture rather than smuggling activities to achieve in life but the bridge between the two plots is not strong enough; the screenplay was like a direct comparison and at the end the agriculture does not link with smuggling as a solution for a tragedy. Otherwise, the overall screenplay is interesting and able to keep the audience’s attention until the end. Short romantic and humour scenes are good support for the story.

On the technical side, camera was handled by Raja Vatchalam from Chennai. The visuals and lighting are two big plus for Maravan. It’s also notable the film was shoot with Red camera which provides rich footages in color and depth.  The blue yellow lighting for night and thrilling scenes are very much creditable and make the film outstanding among local Tamil films. The visuals are well planned according to the scene’s temperature and it's impotence. On the editing part, Anand Geraldin was provided a good job. The overall movie was not bored and able to make the audience to go deeper and the credits goes to the editor obviously.

Another strong fundamental for Maravan is the cast. Kumaresh and Haridass were provided wonderful performance for their roles. Haridass’s villain portray is very much realistic and scary. He deserve a big applause for his outstanding performance and same goes Kumaresh who able to create sympathy among audience. Other than that, Kavitha Thiagarajan also able to bring out a lovely wife and mother character who struggling to bring back her husband from the underground world. On another plot, Denes, Sangeetha, Logan are played well to take charge on entertainment value on the film. Denes and Sangeetha’s short romantic scenes are really support to make the film interesting. On second half, Seelan Manoheran and Pushpa Narayanan entering the screen as cops. Both of them were fit to their roles firmly but the introduction of them is not much establishing in the story especially Seelan’s intro. Seems, they are playing an important role on the second half as a solution; they deserve a strong entry in the film. Other than that, the direction team has done a good job on choosing their cast.

Maravan has a lot of technicians from Chennai who supports a lot on technical part and music. Obviously Malaysian Tamil film industry is in very much beginning level. In this case, it’s healthy to work on collaboration with Chennai technicians to improvise local film standard and it’s a healthy way learn from them. Rather than blaming not using local technicians; take it as a good collaboration to upgrade local film standard and obviously Maravan did that.

Overall, SD Puvanendran and his team deserve a great applause to make such a good film and create a good hope for coming generations. Hopefully, he can maintain and upgrade his expertise on his future projects. Maravan is a very good entry for Malaysian Tamil film industry.