A forced narrative overpowers the picture directed by Vijay Sethupathi's few positive aspects.
Review of the film Maharaja: Vijay Sethupathi portrays a single parent who is determined to recover a stolen trashcan, but his grievances go far deeper than first meets the eye.
Since the meticulously crafted turns and twists are the film's greatest strengths, it is difficult to talk about Maharaja without giving anything away. Some seem forced, but they work, while some make you feel like you're part of the director's con game and writing gimmick without your will. An old, battered man named Maharaja (Vijay Sethupathu) enters the Pallikaranai police station in Chennai and complains that three burglars broke into his home and took his "Lakshmi." The police become enraged when they question him and discover that the missing item is an old iron trashcan. Maharaja states in the preface of the book that the trashcan have sentimental significance for both him and his daughter because it spared the latter from a tragic event that claimed the life of his wife.
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