Maharaja (2024, Tamil) Director: Nithilan Swaminathan If you are fed up watching the same old-time-tested formulaic Indian movies, this one is for you. The story starts as a comedy, but as it goes on, the storyline gets twisted. Just when you think you know how the story will go, it takes a tangent and yet another. And it goes on and on until it ends with a final twister. Maharaja, a mild-mannered barber, leads a simple life with his wife and a little daughter. Right in front of his eyes, he sees a lorry, with its driver obviously off its rails, crashing into his house, killing his wife instantaneously. His ‘daughter’ is miraculously saved by a metal dustbin. Maharajah continues life as a widower and a doting father. One day, his house is broken into, and the metal dustbin that saved his ‘daughter’ goes missing. Maharaja makes a police report. What happened afterwards is a series of flashbacks, parallel storytelling, police brutality, and police power abuse...
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