Maamanithan Movie

Maamanithan Movie - For most of the first half of Seenu Ramasamy's Maamanithan, what we get is a story that resembles a collection of feel-good episodes from an ordinary man's life.

We meet Radhakrishnan (Vijay Sethupathi), an honest, middle-aged auto driver, who leads a happy life with his loving wife Savithri (Gayathrie) and two doting kids. In a flashback that is presented as a bedtime story that he narrates to his little daughter, we see the other people who are part of his life, like his friend Ismail (Guru Somasundaram), how he ended up with this family, and why he chooses to aspire for a life better than his present one.

He strikes up a deal with Madhavan (Shaji), a real-estate developer, to help him sell his plots, so that he can afford to send his children to a private school. But he ends up getting duped by Madhavan, who has now absconded, leaving him to face the wrath of the people of his village and police action. Can Radhakrishnan find a way to prevent his family from disintegrating and ensure that his kids get educated?Maamanithan plays out like a genteel

version of Mahanadhi. 

In that film, too, we had a protagonist who is a happy family man with two kids who only wants to progress to the next level in his life, but gets cheated. But what if he had managed to avoid prison and had some external support to ensure the safety of his family? What if the people who he met during his journey towards redemption are honest and humble individuals just like him instead of ruthless wardens?

Seenu Ramasamy essentially takes away the pathos of Mahanadhi and substitutes it with the feel-good fantasy of Vetri Kodi Kattu, in

which individuals dreaming of a better future get swindled, but manage to rise up again

through sheer hope and a little bit of harmless deceit.