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Maryan
First poster of the film Maryan
Directed by	Bharat Bala
Written by	Bharat Bala Sriram Rajan
Produced by	Venu Ravichandran
Starring	Dhanush Parvathi Menon Salim Kumar
Cinematography	Marc Koninckx
Edited by	Vivek Harshan
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Production company	Aascar Films
Release date	June 2013
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Maryan (Template:Lang-en) is an upcoming Tamil drama thriller film directed by Bharat Bala starring Dhanush alongside Parvathi Menon. Produced by Venu Ravichandran, the film has music and background score composed by A. R. Rahman, and cinematography by Marc Koninckx. The film revolves around a story of human survival adapted from a newspaper article of a real-life crisis event, when three oil workers from India were kidnapped and taken hostage in Sudan by mercenaries. The film is an emotional journey of a common man to an unknown place with the hope to come home and lead a better life.

Cast

• Dhanush as Maryan
• Parvathi Menon as Panimalar
• Salim Kumar as Thomayya
• Appukutty
• Jagan
• Uma Riyaz Khan
• Rama
• Imman Annachi
• Vinayakan
• Dagbeth Tweh
• Christophe Minie

Production

Development

"I was one of the jury members at the National awards committee that chose Dhanush as the best actor for Aadukalam. His performance in Aadukalam moved me. I was looking for a real person to carry this character. I needed to believe the character, his emotions and his journey. Who else but Dhanush could give me what I wanted?"

In early 2011, director Bharat Bala read about a 2008 incident involving three immigrant oil workers from India being kidnapped in the Darfur region of Sudan and how they had managed to escape from post being hostages. While improvising his script, the director met the former hostages who were held for 21 days under captivity. In late September 2011, the director narrated the first half of the film script to actor Dhanush and he agreed play the character Maryan. During this time, the film maker was done with half of the screenplay. Post his casting in the film, actor Dhanush got involved in character and screenplay related discussions that were carried on for six months. In March 2012, the film and collaborations were officially announced. After a lot of research, the director came up with the film title and stated it is the name of the character. In Tamil it translates to "A man who never dies". As per the film script, it implies that the spirit of the man never dies.

The director opined that the fishing community in southern India goes through terrible hardship and countries like Nigeria, Sudan, Libya borrow them as hard labor. The character played by actor Dhanush is of a simple, economically poor but physically strong guy from a very remote village who was in need of a job and hence, this forms the outline of the film. Parvathi Menon was signed on to play a key role as character Maryan's love interest in the film. In an interview to The Times of India, Parvathi described her role as unusual and multi-layered, "Female characters usually figure in a movie just as a way of furthering a love story. But my character, Panimalar, is different and that's what attracted me to the role. She plays a love interest but also has so many other layers to her". The director was inspired by the 2008 French-Liberian film Johnny Mad Dog, which starred a real life group of LURD child soldiers and subsequently chose them as well as the cinematographer of that film, Marc Koninckx, to be a part of Maryan.

A press release of March 2013 along with a poster revealed the film's outline as "A young man is faced with adversity. Life deals him immense challenges, and forces him to struggle to thrive. But he does, nevertheless, fighting to survive by thriving on the sheer undying spirit of the human will to survive. Along his thrilling journey is a tryst with adventure, a smattering of drama and a gritty tale that shows the power of love in extreme circumstances. And that is the story of Maryan". In an interview with Zee News, Bharatbala quoted, "Even though it (Maryan) is about the fight for survival, it deals with several other emotions such as love, separation and struggle. The story recounts a beautiful journey about the separation of the protagonist from his loved ones and his struggle to reunite".

Filming

As the film's story takes place in Sudan and in Kanyakumari, India, Bharat Bala noted that filming had to take place in two contrasting terrains. The sandy rugged locations in Africa were shot in Liberia, doubling up to be Sudan, and several other portions were shot in a month. Subsequent close up scenes featuring supporting cast members from Africa were filmed in India. The first schedule of the film began in Namibia, with scenes including a fight sequence supervised by Dilip Subarayan, being canned. The song "Nenje Ezhu" was shot in Namibia's Coastal Deserts featuring the leading duo.

The final schedule of the film started in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu in November 2012 and filming was held for a couple of months throughout the coastal region of South India. Filming was also held in Mandaikadapudur village close to Kanyakumari, India named as "Neerodi" in the film.The entire film was shot in reverse with the climax scenes being canned first and hence the last scene shot was the beginning scene of the film. Dhanush underwent a special ocean diving course to swim up to 50 feet underwater. Bharat Bala said that Dhanush would jump with the diving suit, go deep, settle down and get rid of the suit and then surge for the actual shot. The underwater scenes were filmed in Andamans.

Marketing

The first official poster of the film was launched on 28 March 2013. A thirty second teaser featuring Dhanush only was released on 29 March 2013. On 31 March 2013, another 40 second teaser with a musical score was released that showed Dhanush with a spear in his hand, diving into deep sea in a breath and hunting on the seabed. The third teaser of 30 seconds was released on 4 April 2013. It depicted the actor combating and smoking. The teaser of the song Nenje Ezhu was released on 26 April 2013. It crossed over three lakh views on YouTube in less than two days. A. R. Rahman extended an invitation through YouTube for the Nenju Ezhu song premier on 3 May 2013.

The official trailer was released on 1 May 2013. After the trailer garnered nearly seven lakh views in one day at Sony India's music channel, it was re-released as an upgraded Vevo version.

Soundtrack

By early May 2012, composer A. R. Rahman had finished composing two songs which were filmed in Africa. One of the songs, "Nenjae Ezhu" was crooned by Rahman himself and described as a "highly emotional number" by the media. Poet Kutti Revathi, who was roped in by Bharat Bala in 2010 to write the lyrics, told that the song being about a survivor, reflected "love, separation, struggle, survival and finally, arising" and that she intended to convey a positive message to young people. She added that Rahman picked the lines, who wanted to avoid words "that we all have already heard". In late January 2013, Velmurugan had recorded a song for the background score of the film. In an interview with Times of India, Bharat Bala claimed that the track "Kadal Raasa Naan" had been recorded already but that Rahman was unhappy with it and wanted a singer who could impart "more emotions into the number, someone with an earthy voice", eventually opting for composer Yuvan Shankar Raja. The song, claimed as a "rustic track", was re-recorded on 25 April 2013 in Chennai. The track "Nenjae Ezhu" was released as a single on 3 May 2013, being aired on Radio Mirchi. The entire album was released at the composer's recording studio in Chennai on 13 May 2013. The soundtrack album debuted at the first position on iTunes India charts. The day after release, the track "Nenje Ezhu" topped the charts with over one crore online listeners.

Behindwoods.com gave the album 3.5 out of 5 and stated, "Maryan’s music serves to prove that when ARR is given a free hand to do as he pleases, he weaves magic! Three instant hits and two slow poisons". Music Aloud noted, "Definitely not on par with A R Rahman’s previous soundtrack that had similar settings, but at least a couple of songs are here to stay", giving 8 out of 10. Indiaglitz assigned the album 4.2 out of 5 and stated, "Start to finish, the album is purely magical and would make for one of the most cherished repertoires. Coming from none less than the genius, the album sparks further curiosity and interest in the movie. In all, anyone would fall in love with 'Mariyaan'". S. R. Ashok Kumar of The Hindu said that Rahman "once again mesmerises with his compositions". Sankhayan Ghosh and Suanshu Khurana from The Indian Express wrote, "Maryan is bit of a mixed bag, with few songs showing signs of new musical signature and some suffering from over familiarity from the composer's previous own songs", rating it 3 out of 5. Srikrishna at Musicperk gave 8 out of 10 to the album and cited: "While, Kadal had class written all over it, Maryan is much more accessible and eclectic. It also marks Rahman’s return to pure Tamil folk. A memorable album overall". Srinivas Ramanujam of The Times of India gave 4 out of 5 stating, "Maryan does have a slight Kadal hangover, in terms of music, but Rahman hits the right note, literally, throughout the album".

Controversies

The third teaser as well as a promotional film poster depicted a smoking Dhanush, that were criticized by former Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare of India, Anbumani Ramadoss. He claimed that the scenes prioritize smoking in the movie and hence it is a punishable offense to appear smoking in cinemas. Following this, reports claimed that the actor was in discussions with the director for the removal of such contents from the film.

Release

The film was censored on 27 May 2013.Initially set to release on 31 May 2013,due post-production and re-recording works the release date was scheduled to mid-June 2013.

Reportedly, Bharat Creations have bagged the rights for distribution of the film US and North America.

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External links

• Maryan at IMDb

• Use dmy dates from May 2013
• Upcoming films
• Indian films
• Tamil-language films
• Films shot in Africa
• Hostage dramas