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Maharathi 's MOvie
Maharathi has a fabulous star cast consisting of the Naseerudin Shah, Om Puri, Paresh Rawal, Neha Dhupia, Boman Irani and Tara Sharma. The movie is an adaptation of a Gujarati play, which was quite a rage with the locals causing director Shivam Nair to make this murder mystery into a full fledged film. Post Ahista Ahista, which received positive feedback, this is Nair’s second venture. Read on to see if he managed to live up to the hype that the theatrical play created.
Maharathi tells the story of Jai Adenwalla (Naseeruddin Shah) who is saved by a wannabe actor cum crook by the name of Subash Sharma (Paresh Rawal) when he is involved in a car accident. Greedy Sharma then accompanies the injured ex filmmaker Adenwalla back to this home where he meets Adenwalla’s much younger wife Mallika (Neha Dhupia). Sharma expresses his need for work, and is quickly hired on to be a driver for the Adenwalla household. Fed up with his wife’s constant taunting and spend thrift ways, Adenwalla decides to commit suicide challenging his wife to obtain the insurance money once he is dead. To Mallika’s surprise, insurance is not paid for suicide and thus, she takes the help of Subash to manipulate her husband’s death into a murder. 
The set up includes the hiring of a fake housekeeper (Tara Sharma) and an even more fake lawyer Mr. Merchant (Boman Irani). However, all comes crumbling down, when the official assigned to their case is the firm and suspicious Gokhale (Om Puri). This begins a rollercoaster ride of whodunits et al.
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