''Maruthi Nagar Police Station'' also known by the initials ''MNPS'', is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language
crime thriller film
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as drama or gangster film, but al ...
written and directed by
Dayal Padmanabhan. The film features an
ensemble cast
In a dramatic production, an ensemble cast is one that comprises many principal actors and performers who are typically assigned roughly equal amounts of screen time.Random House: ensemble acting Linked 2013-07-17
Structure
In contrast to the po ...
including
Varalaxmi Sarathkumar,
Arav
Arav ( born as Nafeez Kizar) is an Indian actor and model who works in the Tamil cinema, Tamil film industry. After making his acting debut through the Vijay Antony-starrer ''Saithan'' (2016), he became known after winning the Bigg Boss Tamil (s ...
,
Santhosh Prathap,
Mahat Raghavendra, and Yasar. It is produced by
Dayal Padmanabhan under the banner of D Pictures. The film had a
direct-to-streaming release via
Aha on 19 May 2023 to negative reviews from critics.
Cast
Production
The film's shoot was completed within 21 days. Later the trailer was released and announced the film would premiere directly on the streaming service
Aha on 19 May 2023.
Reception
Praveen Sudevan critic of ''
The Hindu
''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was founded as a weekly publication in 1878 by the Triplicane Six, becoming a daily in 1889. It is one of the India ...
'' wrote that "The performances, too, fail to elevate the underwritten characters. It’s just difficult to care for any of them in this whodunnit. Or, I-don’t-care-whodunnit." Haricharan Pudipeddi, a critic for the ''
Hindustan Times
''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English language, English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media Limited, an entity controlled by the Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia, the daughter o ...
'', stated that "Varalaxmi gets a meatier part and she does a pretty neat job.". Janani K of ''
India Today
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'' gave 2 stars out of 5 and stated that "Maruthi Nagar Police Station suffers from predictability. Even the so-called twists and turns in the climax do not add up to the story because you are already exhausted by then." P Sangeetha of ''
OTT Play'' gave 2.5 stars out of 5 and wrote that "Dayal Padmanabhan's film might have its twists and turns, but fails short of becoming an impactful film due to the many loose ends and predictability."
References
External links
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Indian crime thriller films
2020s Tamil-language films
Aha (streaming service) original films