A subliminal approach highlighting the course of human life on the planet.
Cinematic Inspiration
A man, an ordinary barber, levels the score with the likes of criminals, police informants, and goons when given an objective and a purpose. The protagonist stays as an ordinary man who has no real-world puzzles to solve or reclaim to prove his identity. He is ordinary to the depths of nobody. He creates parallel mysteries when a challenge is thrown his way.
The Lesson to Seek (Hidden)
The biggest monster or force every human is putting up against is life. If you can survive it in any form or social status, you have come out victorious. The recognition as rich, influential, or a leader is to create chores of secondary importance.
The Path Taken
The death of the hero figure in commercial cinema: Maharaja.
The ‘art in cinema’ quotient has its moments. Projects like ‘Maharaja’ make audiences think about their emotional sensitivity and intelligence to do justice to the film.
It is at this point you draw the cinema to your drawing room. To your drawing board.
The Vijay Sethupathy territory romanticizes audiences to toy with popular formula and mainstream cinema.
- Maharaja would prove a benchmark project for movie lovers and cinema learners.
The blend of popular elements and the tact of ‘doing it your way’ makes it a standalone project.
Hidden Layers:
The loose systematical pieces fall together to fix the flaws within. As audiences, we understand (& expect) the errors would be there. The corruption of the accepted kind would be there.
The system is fixed and broken by the people working in it. They stand by a code of faith and sacred lines. The sacred lines nobody is supposed to cross, not even the system bearers.
The climax of Maharaja reiterates the fact that nobody should cross certain lines.
It is not a kind of law or rule but the boundaries of the human realm.
Nature could fix the broken but it won’t fix the cracks without taking your sacrifice in return.
Ordinary beings would lose their loved ones in the fight.
The evil loses its purpose and in several ways, hate themselves in the end.