Rating: 7.8/10
Director: Ashwin Saravanan
Writer: Ashwin Saravanan
Stars: Nayanthara, Aari, Amzath Khan
Runtime: 2h 21min
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 17 September 2015

Storyline: Vasanth (Aari) is an artist who is working on a story about ‘Mayavanam’, a haunted forest. On his friend’s birthday, he tells a story involving ‘Maya’, a malevolent spirit. He tells him about how one experiences chills and witnesses a spirit descending on them when one says “Maya! your daughter is not with me” three times. In order to ridicule Vasanth, the friend says the same three times, and a similar figure enters the room. He falls back in fear, but the figure reveals itself as his wife; it’s just a birthday surprise. The next day, Vasanth shows the pictures taken by him during the dressed up Maya’s entry to his boss, Ram Prasad (Amzath Khan) and Madan (Utay Mahesh), the episode writer on Mayavanam. Ram points out a smoky form near them and warns him of it. He tells him about a book, Asylum by Kate, that details the life of the mentally ill who were forced into asylums and experimented upon. Madhan then recounts the story of one such inmate, a woman named Maya Matthews, who was taken to the asylum after murdering her husband and forced to give up her newborn daughter to the authorities in the asylum. She falls to her death from the building, with an expensive ring rumoured to be on her body, and is buried in the grounds of the asylum (Mayavanam), where it is believed her vengeful spirit now roams.