Maasi

<p>Maasilamani alias “Maasi” is an who gets entangled in gang-wars between Naaga and Nandha. Due to the gang wars, Maasi loses his family, and he decides to payback Naaga and Nanda’s gang-wars and also eradicate all gangsters in the city of . Arjun signed on to appear in Kicha’s film titled in March 2009, which would see him play a police officer. The title was later changed to after the lead character and the film’s launch was held on 1 April 2009 at a private club in the presence of the members of the cast and crew. The film’s audio launch was held on 26 May 2010 with actor and Hansraj Saxena of Sun Pictures releasing the disk in a grand scale function. At a press conference, Kicha announced that two of his police films and would see back to back releases in July 2010, though the deadline passed without further news. The film was set to release in late August 2011 alongside Arjun’s other film , but ran into a legal tussle with the makers of . The team of that film claimed they bought the remake rights of the Hindi film, and based their on it. They appealed that had copied almost 75 per cent of the scenes from the Hindi film that they were remaking and obtained an order in Hyderabad City Civil Court to stay the release of the film, and subsequently caused a delay. The film was further delayed in early 2012, when the director was arrested for failing to return an advance payment he had received from another producer, hence Tamil Kumaran sought a stay on the film. Soundtrack was composed by , with lyrics written by Dhina and (Unakkaaga Unakkaga). The film opened after three years of production in a few screens across on 16 March 2012 to negative reviews. labelled the film as “tedious”, though stated “watch it if you’re a fan of Arjun, he is charismatic, look fit at this age and has an alluring appeal that lifts this film considerably.” A critic from Behindwoods gave the film one star out of five, concluding it is a “highly predictable shoot out”. Indiaglitz written “Had the sequence of events had some coherence, the film would have been more engaging”. Nowrunning written the film as “standard police procedural”. Times of India criticised that film failed in all departments. Hindu wrote “The action king doesn’t need a Maasi to live up to the sobriquet”.</p>