Well first, he gets introduced as Thanatos (Greek god of death), then he has dreadlocks sprouting out of his head as he smokes chillum (hello, Hindu god of death) and if that wasn't enough, he reads a book called Dead Souls.
Now you may ask, how I know he is the villain, considering that most people in this movie are thugs. But Kalai jumps at the first opportunity to doubt his friend's loyalty and plays right into the hands of our villain - Beeju. Anyway, one would think that holding you for hours while you shake the drugs off your system is proof enough of being a good friend. And if suddenly dumping the carefree protagonist with a best friend wasn't enough, Maari is even shown as helping him out of severe drug addiction (way out of character). They unitedly decide Kalai will lead their group of thugs who smuggle contraband into the city. Kalai, a fellow gangster, is introduced as the son of the late Velu and is Maari's best friend. Betrayal and revenge remain the two main motivations for the actions of the characters through the two and a half hour run time. The plot follows along the line of a Vada Chennai or Chekka Chevantha Vaanam, both releases from this year which attempted to capitalise on the gangster genre. In the sequel, however, the director burdens our once unfeeling protagonist with unending attachments and emotions, giving him no space to actually be himself. Maari 2 picks up after the death of Velu, the gangster whom Maari was associated with in the first film and adds to its coterie - Anandhi (Sai Pallavi), Beeju (Tovino Thomas) Kalai (Krishna Kulasekaran) and Vijaya Chamundeswari (Varalaxmi Sarathkumar).
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