Maathi Yosi

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Pandi, Maanga, Kona, and Maari are four friends who live in Kadavur, a village in Madurai. They are united and very close, and they live for each other. They always think outside the box. They turn out to be vagabonds and go to the extent of even killing the village president's son. After a few similar delinquent experiences, they are forced to leave the village and end up coming to Chennai. How the friends meet the heroine, and what happens in Chennai with the friends and the girl forms the rest of the story.

• Harish as Pandi
• Shammu as Baby
• Gopal as Maanga
• Alex as Onaan
• Lokesh as Mari
• Ponvannan
• Ravi Mariya as Baby's uncle
• G. M. Kumar
• Nellai Siva

After the lukewarm response to his directorial debut Oru Kalluriyin Kathai, Nandha Periyasamy wrote another script intending to cast established actors, but the project did not materialise. He then decided to write one where he did not have to rely on such actors, which became Maathi Yosi.{{Cite news |date=15 March 2010 |title=Different strokes |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/kannada/movies/news/different-strokes/articleshow/5682449.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241210010954/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/kannada/movies/news/different-strokes/articleshow/5682449.cms |archive-date=10 December 2024 |access-date=9 December 2024 |work=The Times of India}} Gopal, who appeared in a supporting role in Oru Kalluriyin Kathai, played a major role here.{{Cite news |date=25 February 2010 |title=Maathi Yosi is a very different film:Gopal |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/kannada/movies/news/maathi-yosi-is-a-very-different-filmgopal/articleshow/5612071.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241210011359/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/kannada/movies/news/maathi-yosi-is-a-very-different-filmgopal/articleshow/5612071.cms |archive-date=10 December 2024 |access-date=9 December 2024 |work=The Times of India}}

The soundtrack was composed by Guru Kalyan,{{Cite web |date=16 November 2019 |title=Maathiyosi (2010) |url=https://www.raaga.com/tamil/movie/maathiyosi-songs-T0002077 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814054637/https://www.raaga.com/tamil/movie/maathiyosi-songs-T0002077 |archive-date=14 August 2019 |access-date=16 November 2019 |website=Raaga.com}} in his film debut.{{Cite news |date=20 February 2010 |title=Musical sojourn |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/music/news/musical-sojourn/articleshow/5593106.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241210011633/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/music/news/musical-sojourn/articleshow/5593106.cms |archive-date=10 December 2024 |access-date=9 December 2024 |work=The Times of India}} The audio launch was held on 10 February 2010.{{Cite news |date=11 February 2010 |title=A different take |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/kannada/movies/news/a-different-take/articleshow/5556823.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241210011833/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/kannada/movies/news/a-different-take/articleshow/5556823.cms |archive-date=10 December 2024 |access-date=9 December 2024 |work=The Times of India}}{{Cite web |date=11 February 2010 |title=Mathi Yosi audio launched! |url=http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=14930987&cid=2363 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221134139/http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=14930987&cid=2363 |archive-date=21 February 2010 |access-date=3 April 2025 |website=Sify}}

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Sify wrote "The film does not have a coherent script, logic and lacks focus. It is another 'Made in Madurai' bloodbath that's etched from various earlier movies and a bit from Fernando Meirelles's classic City of God".{{Cite web |date=13 March 2010 |title=Maathi Yosi |url=https://www.sify.com/movies/maathi-yosi-review-tamil-pclx4debccjii.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116125550/https://www.sify.com/movies/maathi-yosi-review-tamil-pclx4debccjii.html |archive-date=16 November 2019 |access-date=16 November 2019 |website=Sify}} Bhama Devi Ravi of The Times of India wrote "Periyasamy, who had showed some promise in his earlier outing Oru Kalluriyin Kathai, is clearly in the grip of the good-at-heart village boys ending up in a mess-street plot. Nothing original, nothing closely resembling out-of- the-box thinking, but a faithful adherence to the way Madurai-belt films pan out."{{Cite web |last=Ravi |first=Bhama Devi |date=15 March 2010 |title=Maathi Yosi Movie Review |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movie-reviews/maathi-yosi/movie-review/5686260.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328233644/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movie-reviews/maathi-yosi/movie-review/5686260.cms |archive-date=28 March 2022 |access-date=16 November 2019 |website=The Times of India}}

IANS appreciated the editing, cinematography but criticised the screenplay, concluding, "Starting promisingly by focusing on the casteist problem, the films goes wayward and loses its opportunity to be an{{Sic}} unique movie".{{Cite web |date=25 March 2010 |title='Maathi Yosi', nothing new |url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/maathi-yosi-nothing-new-335406.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241209123523/https://www.news18.com/news/india/maathi-yosi-nothing-new-335406.html |archive-date=9 December 2024 |access-date=10 December 2024 |website=News18 |language=en |agency=IANS}} Pavithra Srinivasan of Rediff.com wrote, "While the production values are good, the rural slang, costumes and even the mind-set of four young men from a random village are accurately portrayed (a tad repetitive), you only wish the director had taken the pains to emulate his celluloid mentors and etched a rational tale".{{Cite web |last=Srinivasan |first=Pavithra |date=12 March 2010 |title=Maathi Yosi is mediocre |url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/review/south-tamil-movie-review-maathi-yosi/20100312.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250210041546/https://www.rediff.com/movies/review/south-tamil-movie-review-maathi-yosi/20100312.htm |archive-date=10 February 2025 |access-date=10 February 2025 |website=Rediff.com |language=en}} Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu wrote, "The title suggests that the protagonists are an astute foursome who think and act ingeniously -- they do so too, for a while. But very soon the story and screenplay shift to a much-travelled track".{{Cite news |last=Rangarajan |first=Malathi |date=19 March 2010 |title=Not so different, after all |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/Not-so-different-after-all/article16576895.ece |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230524122836/https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/Not-so-different-after-all/article16576895.ece |archive-date=24 May 2023 |access-date=10 February 2025 |work=The Hindu |language=en}}

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