Maamanithan

Maamanithan (2022)

மாமனிதன்

A humble auto driver is forced to go on the run, leaving his wife and two kids behind, after being cheated by a fraudster. Will he be able to save his family.

Date of release
2022-06-23
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (3)
Runtime
2h 2m
Genres
Drama
Director
Seenu Ramasamy

Casting

Interesting facts

Maamanithan is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language drama film written and directed by Seenu Ramasamy and produced by Yuvan Shankar Raja under his YSR Films banner. The film stars Vijay Sethupathi, Gayathrie, Guru Somasundaram, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Anikha Surendran, Jewel Mary, and Shaji Chen. In addition, Yuvan composed the soundtrack of this film along with his father Ilaiyaraaja. The cinematography and editing were handled by M. Sukumar and A. Sreekar Prasad. The film was theatrically released on 24 June 2022 after being delayed for five years.

Production

In April 2017, reports surfaced that Vijay Sethupathi had signed a new project with Seenu Ramasamy after the success of Dharma Durai (2016). Seenu Ramasamy started writing the script for the project with a tentative title Maamanithan, with Yuvan Shankar Raja who earlier collaborated with Seenu in Dharma Durai and the unreleased film Idam Porul Yaeval, expressed his interest in producing the film apart from working on the film's music.

It was further reported that the film biopic of a popular leader who hails from the south Tamil Nadu region, with Vijay Sethupathi playing a politician in the film, however the team denied such claims. Seenu Ramasamy finished working on the script in May 2017, but the shooting of the film was delayed due to Sethupathi's commitments in other films.

Samuthirakani was announced as a pivotal character in April 2018, who plays a straightforward villager in the film. Seenu Ramasamy revealed that "his character will be the silent type, with very little dialogue and there will be no pair for him in the film". Though the film marked Samuthirakani and Seenu collaborating after Neerparavai (2012), the former did not confirm his presence in the film.

Seenu also cast Gayathrie playing another pivotal character. He stated that "her role is that of a young woman who has finished her 10th standard and has taken up teaching typewriting". Other supporting casts include K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Shaji Chen, Jewel Mary.

Manasvi Kottachi was cast as Sethupathi's daughter. Anikha was cast in a supporting role. During the schedule of Kerala, stills featuring Vijay Sethupathi and Malayalam actor Manikandan Achari went viral through internet, with the latter reported to play a supporting role in the film. Vijay Sethupathi plays an auto driver hailing from a rural family in the film.

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