Mayavi

Fun And Frolic

You have to straightaway hand it to director Singapuli for having chosen a different kind of story. Though the handling of the same could obviously have been better and script much more taut, the point is Mayavi is no run-of-the-mill potboiler.

To be sure, it is indeed commercial entertainer. But it is one with some finesse and finish. The film has shades of Ram Gopla Varma's Mast and a popular Malayalam film of recent vintage. It is a rollicking and…