Mari Selvaraj heaps praise on Nivin Pauly’s Mahaveeryar

The Abrid Shine directorial ‘Mahaveeryar’ continues to get praise for being a daring experiment. Recently, Tamil filmmaker Mari Selvaraj, known for helming acclaimed films like ‘Pariyerum Perumal’ and ‘Karnan’, tweeted in praise of the Nivin Pauly starrer.

According to him, ‘Mahaveeryar’ is a fascinating satire that makes statements about society, justice, the way it consorts with power and the injustices unleashed on the oppressed, especially women. He also showered his best wishes to the team.

Mari’s tweet reads,

Mahaveerayar is a fascinating satire that makes nuanced statements about society, justice, the way it consorts with power and the injustices unleashed on the oppressed, especially women. Wishes to the team. @NivinOfficial

‘Mahaveeryar’ is a genre-bending attempt scripted by Abrid Shine based on a. story by Sahitya Akademi Award winner M Mukundan. Chandru Selvaraj has handled the camera and music is composed by Ishan Chhabra. The film also stars Asif Ali, Lal, Siddique, Shanvi Srivastava, Lalu Alex, Major Ravi, Sudheer Karamana, Mallika Sukumaran, Prajod Kalabhavan, Srikanth Murali and Padmaraj Ratheesh.