![]() ![]() There’s almost no music in the background. There’s a scene in which Apsara slowly walks to the kitchen - that laborious walk of a struggling mother - and opens a water bottle. But I enjoyed how Ashwin plays with your mind, as good horror films do. Storyline: A woman takes on the challenge of watching a horror film, alone in a theatre.Īs you will probably expect, there are plenty of jump scares. Apsara radiates gloom throughout the film, and is key in retaining the sombre atmosphere throughout the film. While another movie would probably have had Apsara crying her heart out or making a spiteful speech upon the body of her husband, she underplays it and not unconvincingly as Siddharth does in The director tells her that the situation is about a pregnant woman poisoning her husband after learning about his infidelity. Apsara, through her friend (Lakshmi Priyaa), gets an opportunity to show her acting mettle to the director of a horror film. Right at the very beginning, there’s a scene that’s constructed very differently from what we are usually used to seeing. As is the case with such films, both stories eventually converge at a point. The film alternates between two stories (one shown in black and white, and the other in colour): One’s about Vasanth (Aari), an artist, who learns about a forest called Mayavanam, and how it was once home to a mental asylum, in which patients - one among them, Maya Mathews - were used as guinea pigs for horrific scientific experiment and the other’s about Apsara (Nayanthara), an orphan mother of a one-year-old baby, and an actress struggling to make ends meet. Director Ashwin Saravanan is content with telling you an interesting story, and with the exception of a rather off-key background song, he does so without distractions. At a time when horror films are a dime a dozen, and intent only on generating easy laughs, it’s a relief to see Maya didn’t occur earlier in the protagonist’s life), but still complex enough to be admired. It’s not a perfect one (perfect stories, among other things, are those that can only happen when they do you’re not at all sure why the big reveal in I’m glad I caught it in Devi Paradise the long, spiral pathway on the way back provided plenty of time in which to reflect on the story. ![]() Uttama Villain, that you can talk so much about on your way back home. Maya is an exercise in both horror and mise en abyme. Well, the answer, it turns out, is just a week. Strawberry last week, I wondered how long we’d have to wait to see an inventive horror film again.
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