

This new fiction breaks the stereotypic portrayal of male chauvinistic Son-in-laws. The story revolves around a son- in- law Senthil who tackles the issues of his In-law’s family. This fiction is a mixture of emotions with maximum fun quotient to it. The story travels through the afterlife of marriage, so it’s not just a story about the love life till marriage. Mappillai will break all these stereotypic views. In Mappillai, Senthil works under his new female boss Chandra, after which these opposite poles gets attracted to each other and love blossoms between them. Usually in Tamil fictions, the female lead is never shown holding a higher position in work place than their love interest. While, Senthil is an easy going, Fun loving guy from an affluent family. She has six girl siblings along with her.

The female lead character Chandra is a straight forward working woman, whose family is dependent on her salary. For the first time in the history of Tamil Television, Mappillai is based on a unique plot that will break the cliché concept of Son-in-Law. But this fiction will revolve around the male protagonist. Usually in Tamil television fictions the leading lady of the house are meant to heal wounds and bind all the members of the family together. Vijay television is all set to launch a new fiction Mappillai from November 14, 2016, Monday to Friday at 9 PM. But in a film that has so much wrong going against it, there isn't much she could do to save it.Chennai: Vijay television will soon launch another new family drama to its programming line up. She looks alluring (although too young to play the mother of a college-going bimbo) and is very convincing as the no-nonsense tough contractor cougar. Manisha Koirala is the only positive factor of 'Mappillai'. While Dhanush is irritating, Hansika Potwani takes the spot of being one of the dullest most annoying actors to disgrace the screen.

'Mappillai' follows the same formula of many of those retarded 80s flicks which included a bunch of atrocious songs, dishum dishum action sequences, romance that makes one shriek, over the top forced comedy, over the top villains etc etc. I'm more surprised that such movies are even being made today AND doing good business but I'm most surprised that an accomplished actress like Manisha Koirala actually starred in it.

I'm surprised that such a horrendous film has been remade into an abysmal one. So-called director Suraj takes the viewer back to regressive cinema with this B-grade remake called 'Mappillai'.
