

Kalai becomes enraged and orders his men to kill Maari.

Maari and his sidekicks set fire to all the drugs, and Beeja kills Vallavan to make it look as though Maari killed him. Vallavan is caught by Maari carrying drugs, and when Maari confronts Kalai, a fight erupts. On confronting Aanandi, she tells him that Maari asked her to do it. Aanandi unknowingly goes to do the job and gets caught by Kalai. Kalai's brother Vallavan is shown to be hand-in-glove with Singayya, who has formed an alliance with Beeja to overthrow Maari.Īs per Beeja's plan, Vallavan asks Sani to send Aanandi for a job, which turns out to be drug smuggling. While coming back after a party, Maari gets attacked, Aanandi takes him to the hospital and takes care of him. This is also the reason why Aanandi loves Maari. Unfortunately, his brother is killed at the hands of Maari as the former tried to molest Aanandi's elder sister. He is out for vengeance against Maari as his brother, who was a defence lawyer, promised to get Beeja released from prison. Meanwhile, Beeja, alias "Thanathos", has escaped from prison, after killing two officers. However, try as she might, Maari does not give her a second glance and constantly shows his annoyance to her. Maari is chased around by Araathu Aanandi, an auto rickshaw driver who is head-over-heels in love with him. Maariyappan alias Maari, is a fun-loving gangster whose sidekicks are Sanikkizhamai and Robert, alias Adithangi ('punching bag'). The film released on 21 December 2018 to mixed reviews from critics. The music was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja with cinematography by Om Prakash and editing by Prasanna GK.

The film also stars Krishna, Tovino Thomas, Sai Pallavi, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar in prominent roles. Dhanush, besides producing the film under his company Wunderbar Films, also stars as the title character, reprising his role from the first film. Maari 2 is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film written and directed by Balaji Mohan.
