
The first look poster released later indicated that Dhanush was a co-producer of the film. The collaboration between Listin Stephen and Raadhika's production house and director Balaji Mohan was first revealed in early January 2014, with Dhanush and Kajal Aggarwal being signed on to be a part of the "romantic entertainer".



When Arjun takes revenge by burning Maari's pigeon coop, which kills 10 of his pigeons, he gets angry and beats up Ravi and Arjun, with the former agreeing to confess to everything. Later, Maari captures one of Arjun's smuggling vehicles and the driver, by which he forces Arjun to release Velu. He first frees the local people from the extortion by Ravi's gang, while Sridevi also falls in love with him for real. Maari decides to take revenge on the duo. Seven months later, when he is released, he finds out that Velu also has been arrested, Arjun is actually a corrupt cop, and he and Ravi are working together and have arrested some people in the area under the pretext of smuggling, to extort money. She shoots the talk with Maari in the drunken state, who describes about the murder, saying that somebody else had killed him, and he took the credit. She decides to help Arjun catch Maari by getting close to him, pretending to fall in love with him, and incriminating him with evidence of his confession: he had tried to kill the rival rowdy, but failed. Maari forcefully becomes her partner in the business, which angers her after she loses some customers. One day, a lady named Sridevi ( Kajal Aggarwal) enters the business, trying to open a boutique in Maari's area. Maari constantly has fights with "Bird" Ravi ( Mime Gopi), another local rowdy who is also working under Velu. His boss is Velu ( Shanmugarajan), a bigger don who also is involved in the pigeon races, as well as the smuggling of sandalwood. His main line of work is in training racing pigeons. Maari is an irritating guy, who, along with his henchmen Sanikilamai ( Robo Shankar) and Adithangi ( Kalloori Vinoth), constantly pesters the people in the area and extorts money from them. Police Constable Arumugam ( Kaali Venkat) talks to the new Sub-Inspector, Arjun ( Vijay Yesudas), about Maari ( Dhanush), a local rowdy who rose to fame after killing a rival rowdy. It was dubbed in Telugu as Maas and was released on 29 April 2016, and was remade in Bengali as Bossgiri (2016).Ī sequel titled Maari 2 was released on 21 December 2018. The film received mixed reviews upon its release, but had a decent collection at the box office. The film was shot in and around Chennai and Tuticorin.

After being in pre-production phase since March 2014, principal photography began on 5 November 2014 and lasted till 15 March 2015. undertook the film's cinematography and editing respectively. This film also marks Vijay Yesudas's Tamil debut.Īnirudh Ravichander composed the film's soundtrack and score while Om Prakash and Prasanna G. The film stars Dhanush and Kajal Aggarwal, while singer Vijay Yesudas along with Robo Shankar, Kalloori Vinoth, Kaali Venkat, and Mime Gopi play supporting roles. Maari is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film written and directed by Balaji Mohan, jointly produced by Listin Stephen and Raadhika's Magic Frames and Dhanush's Wunderbar Films.
