Maayi
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Directed bySurya Prakash
Written bySurya Prakash
Produced byR. B. Choudary
StarringSarathkumar
Meena
CinematographyS. Saravanan
Edited byV. Jaishankar
Music byS. A. Rajkumar
Production
company
Release date
  • 25 August 2000 (2000-08-25)
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Maayi is a 2000 Indian Tamil-language drama film written and directed by Surya Prakash, starring Sarathkumar and Meena, while Vadivelu, Vijayakumar, Sabitha Anand, Suvalakshmi, Rajan P. Dev, and Anand play supporting roles. The film was a super hit at box office,[1] and Vadivelu's comedy performance was critically acclaimed.

This film later remade into Telugu as Simharasi (2001)[2] and in Kannada as Narasimha (2012).[3] The song "Megham Udaithu" was shot in Mysore Lalitha Mahal.

Plot

Maayi is a well-respected do-gooder in a village. He considers women in the village as his sisters and even helps financially to conduct their weddings. He is a man who is ready to kill his father Irulandi when he learns that the latter had a second wife, but Irulandi opts to kill himself rather than face his son, and so Maayi brings his half-sister Lakshmi to live with him. A local MLA, Sundarapandiyan, comes to Maayi to get his support during the upcoming election, but he refuses and Sundarapandiyan loses the election. But his son, who admires Maayi, marries Lakshmi.

Meanwhile, Bhuvaneswari, Maayi's distant relative's daughter, comes to the village from Bangalore and initially misunderstands Maayi by seeing his looks but later realises her mistake after knowing about Maayi's hard work and his help towards improving the village. Maayi has built free hospitals, daycare centres, colleges, etc. to help the villagers. Bhuvana is attracted towards Maayi and proposes to him, but Maayi does not accept her love. But Bhuvana remains confident about marrying Maayi, following which he tells his flashback. Maayi was born into a very poor family where his mother Nachiyamma was infected by leprosy even before his birth. Due to poor financial condition, Nachiyamma could not be treated in a hospital and instead was kept alone in a room. She was not allowed to touch her son Maayi fearing chances of the disease being spread. Maayi has never seen his mother right from his childhood as she always stays in a closed room. When Maayi was eight years old, his mother gets frustrated more as her disease prevents her to show her affection towards Maayi, and she commits suicide by drowning in a river. This shocks Maayi, and he decides not to marry any woman as he does not want any girl to touch his body, which was even untouched by his beloved mother.

Maayi convinces Bhuvana to marry someone else. He also learns that Lakshmi is being tortured by her husband and that it was all a plan to take revenge on Maayi for not supporting Sundarapandiyan during elections. Maayi beats up Lakshmi's husband and says that he will never support criminal activities even if it impacts his family. On the day of Bhuvana's wedding, the bridegroom's family misunderstands that Maayi and Bhuvana are lovers, seeing Maayi's dhoti in her room, and stops the marriage. Bhuvana's friend discloses the truth that Maayi gave his dhoti to safeguard her when her dresses were washed away in water sometime back. Manorama, who also belongs the village, shouts at the groom's family for their cruel thoughts and requests Maayi to marry Bhuvana as that would be the right thing. Maayi obeys Manorama's words as his mother's and marries Bhuvana.

Cast

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by S. A. Rajkumar.[4]

SongSingersLyrics
"Megam Udaithu"(Version l)S. Janaki, RajeshR Ravishankar
"Nilave Vaan Nilave"SujathaIlayakamban
"Ola Ola"Swarnalatha, Arunmozhi
"Sooriyane"S. JanakiR Ravishankar
"Thennagam Aalum"S. P. BalasubrahmanyamMu. Metha
"Megam Udaithu"(Version ll) Vasundhara Das, Rajesh R Ravishankar

Reception

Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu wrote, "The movement of the story is rather slow at times, especially in the second half because there is not much happening. But it manages to sustain one's interest".[5] Krishna Chidambaram of Kalki praised Sarathkumar's characterisation, emotional flashback, Raju Sundaram's choreography and Vadivelu's humour but panned stunt choreography as unrealistic and concluded saying if these flaws are discounted, we can safely say that it is a sensible film.[6] Chennai Online wrote "'Mayi' is 'Nattamai' and 'Chinna Gounder' gone a bit too far!".[7] India Info wrote "If you like masala rustic style, then Mayee is your cup of tea otherwise give it a go by".[8]

References

  1. ↑ "PT threatens stir against 'Maayi'". The Hindu. 19 March 2000. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  2. ↑ Jeevi. "Movie review – Simha Raasi". Idlebrain.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  3. ↑ "Narasimha Movie Review". IndiaGlitz. 24 March 2012. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "Maayi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - EP". Apple Music. 21 May 2000. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  5. ↑ Rangarajan, Malathi (25 August 2000). "Film Review: Maayi". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 31 August 2009. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  6. ↑ சிதம்பரம், கிருஷ்ணா (10 September 2000). "மாயி". Kalki (in Tamil). p. 96. Archived from the original on 2 July 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  7. ↑ "Mayi". Chennai Online. Archived from the original on 7 March 2001. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "Mayee : Oh Mayee God!". India Info. Archived from the original on 29 June 2001. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
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