Maari 2

Maari 2 (2018)

மாரி 2

After falling off the radar for a few years, Maari is back in the fray doing what he does best: taking trouble by the horns and being a total bad-ass. This time around, he is facing off against a formidable opponent named Beeja, who would stop at nothing until he sees Maari's downfall.

Date of release
2018-12-21
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (43)
Runtime
2h 30m
Genres
Action, Comedy
Director
Balaji Mohan
Collection
Maari Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Maari 2 is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film written and directed by Balaji Mohan. It is a sequel to his 2015 film Maari. Dhanush, besides producing the film under his company Wunderbar Films, also stars as the title character, continuing his role from the first film with Sai Pallavi played a female lead. The film also stars Tovino Thomas, Krishna, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Vidya Pradeep, Robo Shankar, Kalloori Vinoth, Kaali Venkat, Master Raghavan and others. The music was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, the cinematography was handled by Om Prakash and editing by Prasanna GK. The film was released on 21 December 2018 and received mixed reviews from critics.

Production

Following the release of Maari, director Balaji Mohan announced the sequel Maari 2 in November 2015, with Dhanush again in the lead, and also hinted that the sequel would begin shooting from January 2016. The film's script was finalised in December 2016. In September 2017, Balaji said via a tweet that the film would be a bilingual film in Tamil and Telugu; however, the Telugu version was later dropped.

On 24 September 2017, it was announced that Malayalam actor Tovino Thomas had joined the cast, portraying the antagonist. A few days later, Sai Pallavi was finalised as the heroine. Later, actor Krishna joined the cast on 7 October 2017, and Varalaxmi Sarathkumar joined the cast in December 2017.

Anirudh Ravichander, who composed for the film's first installment, was expected to join its successor. However, Mohan announced in December 2017 that Yuvan Shankar Raja would be the composer of Maari 2. Om Prakash and Prasanna GK were chosen as the cinematographer and editor respectively, and A. Amaran was as the art director.

The film's puja ceremony took place on 14 December 2017, and principal photography began on 22 January 2018. The first filming schedule took place in Tenkasi. Varalaxmi began shooting for her portions in mid-February. The makers completed 40% of the filming before a strike by the Tamil Film Producers Council occurred on 16 March 2018, with shooting resuming in April after the strike was called off.

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