Director Madonne Ashwin, who served audiences a simple but fascinating story in his earlier film Mandela (2021), repeats the feat successfully in his latest offering Maaveeran as well.
Talented cartoonist Sathya (Sivakarthikeyan) lives with his mother (Sarita) and sister in a slum. He is a timid person by nature and looks to avoid conflict at any cost.
Their original homes in the slum having been demolished and with no courage to take on Minister Jeyakodi (Mysskin), who is behind the whole scam, they reside in the inhospitable buildings.
When Sathya realises he can do nothing to question the injustice meted out to his family, he decides that there is no point in living but meets with an accident. After he wakes up he hears a voice.
Madonne Ashwin seems to have picked up an issue that caught the attention of everybody in the state in 2021 and beautifully spun an engaging story out of it.
Aditi Shankar, daughter of director Shankar, does a neat job. She comes up with a fine, measured performance as Nila, a sub-editor in love with the cartoonist.