27 Jul, 2018
2 hrs 28 mins
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SYNOPSIS
Maradona, a young man, due to some dangerous situations, moves out of his hometown and reaches Bangalore to stay with his distant relatives. However, during his stay there, his situation worsens further. He meets new people there, observes their behavior and events that follow changes his life forever. Who was Maradona, and what changed him, forms the crux.
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BMS Reviewer
Verdict: Tovino excels as Maradona in the action-packed thriller. Do you still play football? Exceptfor this one line delivered by the protagonist, there is nothing that connects football toVishnu Narayan`sMaradona. Narayan`s directorial debuthasTovino Thomasin a titular role. Written byKrishna Moorthyand produced byMini Studio, the movie also starsChemban Vinod Jose,Sh...
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The Times of India
Vishnu Narayan`s Maradona is a movie in which the journey is more interesting than the destination. Maradona (Tovino Thomas), seemingly a charmer, takes refuge in his estranged cousin`s flat in Bengaluru after he gets injured in an accident. The cousin and family are about to go on a vacation, though, and Maradona is left to fend for himself for a week in the flat, where he gets accidentally locked in.
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Filmibeat
The plot of Maradona revolves around the title character. Due to certain circumstances, he is forced to go to Bangalore where he stays in a flat, which belongs to one of his distant relatives. The event that follows mixed with the past of Maradona has been narrated in an efficient manner.
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Behindwoods
It is the story of Maradona, a local goon who is on-the-run. The movie has all the elements of a thriller and follows the conventional pattern of almost every movie that has a goon playing the protagonist. Thrill, fight, love, enlightenment, and suspense are the highlights of the film.
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Cinema Express
There is a scene where Tovino Thomas` character Maradona engages in a staring contest with a little girl. The girl, who until that point was basking in the glory of defeating her parents in the same contest, fails after Maradona stares at her unblinkingly. The girl becomes upset and her parents chide him for making her cry. But he doesn`t mean to do it. The truth of the matter is, a TV news announcement - something to do with a messy incident he was involved in - makes him froze. As in last year`s Mayanadhi, Tovino plays a character who is on the run. But this time the pursuers don`t work for the law. The hunters work for an influential politician whose son is lying in coma after an ugly tiff with two local thugs, Maradona and his childhood friend Sudhi (Angamaly Diaries` Tito Wilson).
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