He strikes a deal with this bunch of ghosts - they want him to fulfill their last wishes and he wants them to help him use this ‘gift’ and make money. Mass is admitted in a hospital and when he wakes up, he learns that he can see and talk to ghosts. The plot kicks in when Mass and his friend, Jet Li steal from a local gangster to help Manini, but are involved in an accident while trying to escape the gangster’s henchmen. And even as we get the mandatory hero introduction song, the director uses it to introduce the heroine, Manini, as well and in swift strokes shows us that Mass has fallen in love with her.
He fights them off and then we are told that the entire thing was staged. It feels like a typical hero’s introduction scene with Mass taking on a few hoodlums who are stealing from a TASMAC shop on Gandhi Jayanthi. Venkat Prabhu makes his intentions quite clear right at the start when he introduces his hero, Mass. MEM shows that the director’s flair for delivering an unpretentious and undemanding film is still intact, even if a slight amount of predictability has crept into the filmmaking. The fun lies in finding out how the director packages all these elements to surprise and entertain us. So, when we step into a Venkat Prabhu film, by now, we sort-of know what to expect. Some of these might come across as forced but there is no denying that they have become the director’s signature. And most importantly, there will be a subtle subversion of genre - Massu Engira Maasilamani (MEM) has ghosts but it is not a horror film but rather a revenge saga in the traditional ‘mass’ film mould.
The focus will be more on entertaining even if means sacrificing some of the seriousness in a scene. The heroines will be strictly functional (Nayanthara’s role here is more a cameo).
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There will be endless pop culture references (this one invokes Engaeyum Eppothum, Mankatha, 7aum Arivu, Kaththi, Singam 2, Pammal K Sammandham, Pizza, Vaaranam Aayiram, Naan Kadavul, Raja Rani, actor Vishal’s fight against movie piracy, the catchphrase Ennamma Ippadi Pannreengalema and many more). There will be cameos by the Venkat Prabhu company of actors (here, we get Jai, Vijay Vasanth, Aravind Akash, Subbu Panchu to name a few). For starters, his brother Premgi Amaren will be the film’s designated comedian. As his previous five films have shown us, a Venkat Prabhu film cannot exist without certain must-haves.
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