Sudheesh Sankar’s ‘Maareesan’ (Vadivelu, Fahadh Faasil) has good ideas that don’t quite come together
- Trinity Auditorium
- Jul 25
- 1 min read
The film is a road movie and a social-justice thriller. At a conceptual level, it’s certainly interesting. But the execution is a letdown. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.
Sudheesh Sankar and his writer V Krishna Moorthy are nothing if not ambitious. Their film Maareesan begins like a quirky Malayalam buddy movie. Fahadh Faasil plays a thief named Dhaya. He is released from prison in Palayamkottai, but he has no plans to reform. He steals a phone, a bike, and then he stops in front of a big house. He feels something, as though the place is calling out to him. He breaks in and runs into Velayudham, played by Vadivelu. The man has Alzheimer’s, and he says his son has kept him under lock and key. He looks at Dhaya as a means of escape. Dhaya looks at this man as a means of making money. (He has an ATM card.) And off they go, into what we think is a road movie. We think they will bond over their differences, or that the older man will teach the younger one some valuable life lessons.
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