Film Review : Mahaan
Chiyaan Vikram's Mahaan, streaming on Amazon Prime, is the much awaited next Karthik Subbaraj film. The film centres around an upright Gandhi Mahaan ( Vikram) whose staunch upbringing following Gandhian principles reaches a breaking point at age 40, when circumstances lead him away from the path. His Gandhian wife Nachi ( Simran) leaves him when he starts drinking, along with her son Dadaboy Naoroji (Dhruv Vikram). Thereafter, Gandhi Pa as he is called, embarks on a life of crime and becomes a big liquor magnate with the aid of friend Sathya ( Bobby Simha, brilliant in an aged version). On the other hand, his son Dada becomes an officer of the law. What happens when father and son meet? How does the estranged son now react to the father who had abandoned him and his mother? What is Mahaan's reaction and how does he cope to the new situation, with father and son on opposites sides of the law? Kartik Subbaraj weaves a hard hitting action tale, with vibr...