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Maharaja
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNithilan Saminathan
Written byNithilan Saminathan
Raam Murali (dialogues)[1]
Produced bySudhan Sundaram
Jagadish Palanisamy
Starring
CinematographyDinesh Purushothaman
Edited byPhilomin Raj
Music byB. Ajaneesh Loknath
Production
companies
Passion Studios
The Route
Think Studios
Distributed bysee below
Release date
14 June 2024
Running time
142 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil
Budgetest. ₹20 crore[3]
Box officeest. ₹40 crore[4][5]

Maharaja (transl. Great King)[a] is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Nithilan Saminathan, who co-wrote the dialogues with Raam Murali. It is jointly produced by Passion Studios, The Route and Think Studios. The film stars Vijay Sethupathi in titular role, alongside Anurag Kashyap, Mamta Mohandas, Natarajan Subramaniam, Abhirami, Aruldoss, Munishkanth, Manikandan, Singampuli and Bharathiraja in the supporting roles. In the film, a barber tells the police that his "Lakshmi" is missing after a home robbery, only to the police finding his intentions to be something else.

The film was officially announced in February 2023 under the tentative title VJS50, as it is Sethupathi's 50th film as the lead actor. Principal photography commenced the same month, predominantly taking place in Chennai throughout a single schedule. The official title was announced in July, coinciding with the filming being wrapped and Think Studios by joining as co-producers. The film has music composed by B. Ajaneesh Loknath, while the cinematography and editing were handled by Dinesh Purushothaman and Philomin Raj.

Maharaja was released worldwide on 14 June 2024 to critical acclaim from critics with praise for its cast performances (particularly Sethupathi and Kashyap), script, action sequences, cinematography, music, technical aspects and social message.

Plot

Maharaja is a barber by profession living in K. K. Nagar. He lost his wife in an accident where a truck slew into a house they were sitting in. His daughter named Jyothi survived the accident as a metal dustbin covered and protected her from the falling debris. Maharaja and Jyothi later named the dustbin as "Lakshmi" out of affection and anthropomorphize it.

He later moves to a new place with Jyothi, now a teenager, and Lakshmi. Jyothi is very active in sports at school; she leaves the city for a sports camp, accompanied by her sports teacher. On a phone call, she asks Maharaja to buy her a new pair of shoes by the time she returns. When she is attending the camp, Maharaja visits the local police station to report a robbery, citing that their dustbin Lakshmi has been stolen, much to the amusement of the station. He recites the whole situation to them, saying that a group of armed robbers entered his home, physically attacked him, and took off with Lakshmi.

The police initially snub the case, as they believe they cannot invest their efforts and time in finding a trivial object like a dustbin. They ask if the dustbin contained anything of value, like gold, but Maharaja asserts that the dustbin was empty. Despite their constant snubbing and even violent threats, Maharaja stands his ground. They eventually accept the case once he promises a bribe of ₹5 lakhs, then another 2 lakhs so a total of 7 lakhs. Upon further investigation, the cops find that there is more than meets the eye. They initially decide to exploit Maharaja's desperation, knowing that he will pay what they ask for, assigning former convict Nallasivam for the purpose of ensuring the construction of an identical dustbin.

Past: In 2010 we are introduced to Selvam and Sabari, a duo of petty robbers who steal, rape, and murder. As their business functions effectively with Selvam maintaining an effective double life as a simple business owner with his baby daughter Ammu and wife Kokila, Sabari one day phones him saying that the press has ran a story on them without naming them, but whatever is mentioned is identical to the crimes that they've carried out. Selvam happens to be in Ramki saloon for a shave, where Maharaja works as a barber, and he overhears his conversation when he comes back with batteries for his trimmer. Selvam loses a gold chain at the saloon, which was his birthday gift meant for Ammu. Maharaja found it and decided to return it to Selvam. However, Maharaja and the police arrived at Selvam's house at the same time, which led Selvam to think that Maharaja snitched about his whereabouts to the police. The police gun Sabari down. Selvam consequently got arrested at his toddler daughter, Ammu's birthday function in front of his wife, Kokila, and other relatives, in a humiliating fashion, causing Kokila to cease ties with him out of horror telling him to never come near the family again.

Present: We are introduced to another former convict going by the name of Dhana, who works in a local car garage. After threats by a politician, Dhana seeks him out at a local bar and brutally attacks the politician, impairing him, unfazed by his threats and verbal taunts. We see that Maharaja was present at the same pub, and he follows Dhana, who notices Maharaja following him and puts his fellow goons on alert. He leads Maharaja to an abandoned warehouse, where Maharaja is attacked by Dhana's goons. However, he fights back, impaling the goons, telling them that he doesn't intend to kill them, with Dhana being his sole target. A fight between the two men follows, with Maharaja having the upper hand and asking Dhana whom the other 2 men were. Dhana tells him that one of them is inside the police station itself, and then he stabs Maharaja in the leg, impaling him. Before Dhana can escape, Maharaja catches up to him and beheads him.

As the police continue to investigate this seemingly amusing case, at their wit's end, Nallasivam does ensure that an identical dustbin is constructed. He delivers it to the police, who are seemingly gleeful at potentially receiving the 7 lakhs that Maharaja promised. They are however unable to find a petty thief who is willing to turn himself in, as other thieves on speed dial consider it as beneath even them to steal an ordinary dustbin. Eventually, Nallasivam agrees to make it seem like he is the one who did the robbery, saying that he has a penchant for acting. They decide to ask Maharaja over speaker phone to narrate the events of that day again, much to the chagrin of the other police officers. To their surprise, Maharaja does not speak about the robbery of the dustbin. He proceeds to tearfully narrate the actual events of that day, revealing that when Jyothi had returned from her camp, Maharaja had gone to buy the shoes that she wanted, and got stuck at the shop owing to some delay on their end. When Jyothi was all alone, three men, revealed to be Selvam, Dhana, and Nallasivam, entered the house before her, planning to kill Maharaja. They brutally physically assaulted Jyothi, leaving her battered and unconscious. Nallasivam then proposes to the other two men that they take turns in raping her. Selvam does not do so, but Dhana and Nallasivam go ahead. They end up not killing her, leaving her in that state. As Maharaja comes home from the shop, he sees the sight of his child and reacts in pure horror, howling in pain. It is revealed that she has been kept in their PT teacher Aasifa's house, with Lakshmi right under her hospital bed. She has only one request from Maharaja - that she wants to see the man responsible for this, and speak with him.

Inspector Varadarajan and his fellow officers Perumalsamy and Kozhandhai convince Nallasivam, now looking rather flustered, to spend the night at their place so that they can comfortably travel to Maharaja's place the next day to return the dustbin to him. When they arrive there the next day, Nallasivam confesses to his 'crime' of stealing the dustbin. The policemen compel Maharaja to give him an appropriate punishment, proceeding to reveal that they found out what Nallasivam did, as when they were investigating Dhana's death, they found his phone, with Nallasivam calling him. They did some checking using Maharaja's phone number, finding out the truth and going to the hospital where the doctor informed them of what happened to Jyothi, and that they had collectively carried out the ruse of bringing Nallasivam to Maharaja. They tell Maharaja that he is free to do what he wants to do with Nallasivam and that their team will bear responsibility for it. Maharaja thrashes Nallasivam to death, but not before finding out who the third accomplice is.

Maharaja arrives at the construction site where Selvam works and the two men physically fight. Eventually, Maharaja incapacitates Selvam, and Aasifa brings Jyothi to Selvam. Jyothi proceeds to insult and admonish Selvam, and then tosses jewelry at his face, assuming that he had come there for that. Selvam's eyes catch a familiar set of jewelry, revealed to be a set that he had bought for Ammu for her birthday - the very set that Maharaja had come to return. It is now revealed that shortly after Selvam's arrest, Maharaja, his wife, and daughter had come to Selvam's house to return the jewelry set. Shortly after, when Maharaja had gone to buy Ammu a gift, a truck rammed into Selvam's house, killing everyone but Ammu, who is saved by Lakshmi. Maharaja adopts Ammu and raises her as his own daughter, naming her Jyothi. As Selvam sees a burn wound on Jyothi's shoulder, reminiscent of a similar wound on Ammu's shoulder, he realizes that he had unknowingly arranged for the rape and physical assault of his own daughter. Horrified, Selvam screams in pain for Ammu to look at him, who is unaware of who Selvam is and walks away with Maharaja and Aasifa. Shrouded in guilt, Selvam commits suicide by jumping off the building.

Cast

Production

On 1 February 2023, Vijay Sethupathi was announced to collaborate with Kurangu Bommai (2017) director Nithilan Saminathan for his 50th film as a lead actor and the director's second directorial.[6] Tentatively titled VJS50, principal photography began shortly after a muhurat puja held the same day at a film studio in Chennai with the presence of the film's cast and crew.[7] The project was funded by Sudhan Sundaram's Passion Studios and Jagadish Palanisamy's The Route. In early April, Sundaram stated that fifty of eighty-five filming days were completed, and only ten days were remaining for Sethupathi.[8] On 12 July, in addition to the principal photography wrapping, the film's official title, Maharaja, was announced by the production houses.[9] Anurag Kashyap, Mamta Mohandas and Natarajan Subramaniam were announced to play the lead roles alongside Sethupathi, while Divya Bharathi, Abhirami, Aruldoss, Munishkanth, Manikandan, Singampuli, Bharathiraja, Vinod Sagar and P. L. Thenappan would appear in the supporting roles.[10] Dubbing works were completed by 31 December 2023.[11]

Music

Maharaja
Soundtrack album by
B. Ajaneesh Loknath
Released7 June 2024
RecordedFebruary–July 2023
StudioSound Town Studio, Chennai
RM Studio, Chennai
Abbs Studios, Bangalore
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length3:08
LanguageTamil
LabelJunglee Music
ProducerB. Ajaneesh Loknath
B. Ajaneesh Loknath chronology
Yuva
(2024) 		Maharaja
(2024) 		Vaamana
(2024)
Singles from Maharaja
  1. "Thayee Thayee"
    Released: 7 June 2024
  2. "Raja Paya Onnu"
    Released: 15 June 2024 (After the film's release)

The music and background score is composed by B. Ajaneesh Loknath, in his first collaboration with Sethupathi; second with Saminathan after Kurangu Bommai.[12] As well as in his third Tamil film after that film and Nimir (2018).[13] Junglee Music acquired the audio rights of the film.[14][15] The first single "Thayee Thayee", sung by Sid Sriram and written by Vairamuthu, was released on 7 June 2024.[16]The second single "Raja Paya Onnu" was released on 15 June 2024, after the film's release.[17]

No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Thayee Thayee"VairamuthuSid Sriram3:08
2."Raja Paya Onnu"VairamuthuJithin Raj
Harshika Devanath		4:05
Total length:7:13

Release

Theatrical

Maharaja was theatrically released on 14 June 2024 in theatres.[18] Apart from its original Tamil language, it was also dubbed and released in Telugu.[19] A press screening was held two days prior to the release, 12 June.[20] It was initially planned by the makers to release in May 2024, but was later shifted to June due to unspecified reasons.[21] The film will have its Los Angeles Premiere on 28 June 2024, as it was selected as one of the closing night selections at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.[22]

Distribution

NVR Cinemas bought the distribution rights of the film for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.[23][24] Tentkotta, which would distribute in association with Simbaaaa Productions, acquired the distribution rights for the United States and Australia,[25][26] and Ahimsa Entertainment did so for the UK.[27] United Indian Exporters acquired the overseas distribution rights of the film,[28] and released the film themselves in Sri Lanka and Germany and in the company of X Gen Studios in Singapore.[29][30]

Home media

The digital streaming rights were acquired by Netflix and the satellite rights by Star Vijay.[31][32]

Reception

Critical response

Maharaja received positive reviews from critics, who praised Sethupathi's performance, the writing, climax and social message.[33]

Arjun Menon of Rediff gave 4/5 stars and wrote "Maharaja is a surprisingly novel outing, rejuvenating the tired tropes of revenge films with a morally challenging revelation in the final hour, that compensates for the little contrivances in the writing."[34] Manikandan KR of Times Now gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote "Maharaja is a fairly good revenge/investigative drama that primarily works because of fine performances from its entire cast and some exceptional work by its stuntmen and stunt choreographer."[35] Goutham S of Pinkvilla gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote "Vijay Sethupathi stands out in the action-packed revenge flick with a well-written screenplay by Nithilan Swaminathan"[36] Rakesh Tara of ABP Live gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote "Maharaja is an ambitious attempt to blend serious societal issues with commercial cinema elements. While it succeeds in parts, particularly through strong performances and engaging music, it falls short in delivering a cohesive and compelling narrative."[37]

Roopa Radhakrishnan of The Times of India gave 3/5 stars and wrote "Vijay Sethupathi is wonderful in his 50th film, and he has well-written role at his disposal."[38] Anusha Sundar of OTTPlay gave 3/5 stars and wrote "Maharaja is a film that feeds you information in every frame and second, so losing a grip on it might leave you unable to understand when the knots are tied."[39] Bhuvanesh Chandar of The Hindu wrote "Maharaja is yet another sign of the serious filmmaker Nithilan is, and shows us how a good writer can convert even a dated idea into a gripping big-screen experience."[40] Latha Srinivasan of Hindustan Times wrote "Director Nithilan Swaminathan and Vijay Sethupathi have delivered a film that’s definitely worthy of your time." [41] Swathi P Ajith of Onmanorama wrote "Maharaja is undoubtedly a thrilling revenge drama that deserves to be watched in theatres."[42]

Janani. K of India Today gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "Maharaja has a lot going on. Sadly, the hits and misses are not proportional, with the latter having the upper hand. These good moments get buried under dark humour, which hardly works, and many other shortcomings."[43] B. V. S. Prakash of Deccan Chronicle gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote "Director Nithilan deserves a pat since he makes the girl victim stronger and determined who wants to meet scrupulous characters and question them for their heinous act face-to-face and throws up another twist in the end."[44] Kirubhakar Purushothaman of The Indian Express gave 2/5 stars and wrote "The overarching problem with Maharaja is its ‘wannabe’ nature to come across as a gritty, dark, and emotional rollercoaster. It is more concerned about how it wants to come across than what it really is."[45]

Box office

Maharaja grossed ₹4.7 crore (US$560,000) on its opening day.[46] The film earned ₹7.75 crore (US$930,000) on second day and ₹9 crore (US$1.1 million) on third day.[46][47] The film surpassed Garudan to become the third biggest opening for a Tamil film in 2024, behind Captain Miller and Aranmanai 4.[48] It grossed an estimated ₹32.6 crore (US$3.9 million) on its opening weekend of three days, becoming the highest opening weekend for a Tamil film in 2024.[49] On its fourth day, the film crossed ₹27.50 crore (US$3.3 million) from India, bringing its worldwide gross to ₹40 crore (US$4.8 million).[50][51]

Notes

  1. ^ Also the title character.

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