India, Sept. 20 -- Maadeva movie story: Maadeva (Vinod Prabhakar), the emotionally numb hangman at a local prison, has a slow but steady change of heart when he meets Parvathi (Sonal Monteiro), whose mother is serving time. All that she wants is to get Maadeva to smuggle in home-cooked food for her mother, but somewhere along the way, she realizes that his gruff appearance and behaviour are a result of years of trauma, which a little tender loving care could heal. Can Maadeva and Parvathi have their happily-ever-after though?

Maadeva movie review: Vinod Prabhakar films have a certain template, with 4-5 fights, a couple of songs, and not much by way of a story or potential for him to act. And Maadeva, he'd said, was a far cry from that. W...