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Excellent movie experience.

Loved how the forests and the landscape integrate into the experience.

Excellent cinematography.

Excellent writing.

Both done by the same person - Bahul Ramesh, which explains why the creative vision has manifested so well.

From the Kishkintha Kantham team, a movie of the same stature.

Sandeep Pradeep has excelled as the main protagonist of the movie.

Excellent direction. The fight scenes were very raw, and unstylish. Not all performances were top notch - some better than others.

Writing is excellent. You get placed into a very nuanced world, and every scene is carefully written to keep the viewer on the toes, and deliver something at the end of the scene.

There were a few scenes, where the writer went back to explaining the plot again, apparently out of concern that the subtleties might not have got through.

The movie keeps moving focus around the characters, giving you an engaging two hours.

The dogs have all performed well - VFX or otherwise.

While Sandeep has given an excellent performance in the movie, if the movie had the benefit of a star as well, then the reach would have been so much more.

The actress has performed well.

Must watch.

Technically, the movie has done well. Sound work is good. Cinematography is good.

Writing is nuanced and distilled. The interval climax is good. The twist is well written, though somehow it does not shock.

There is craft to the scenes that convey horror. They have worked.

Pranav Mohanlal's best performance so far. Loved the acting of Gibin Gopinath. He compliments the writing very well by conveying significant plot points with his eyes.

Jaya Kurup has acted very well. A very reliable actress. Arun Ajikumar played the brother role very well. There were many challenging acting sequences - the kind that takes a toll on the actors, and these have all been captured well.

It is not a perfect movie. One sore thumb for me was Shine Tom Chacko's casting. He brings in a lot of baggage with his channel interview performances, and those overshadow his pivotal role in the movie.

The writing which was supposedly done before Bramayugam does not measure up to it. Climax felt a little cliched.

The house where the movie takes place has been done very well. The art work that went there is definitely commendable.

It is a theatre experience movie. A lot of the saying is done with sounds The nuanced sounds need to come out. You might even miss the plot if your speakers don't have sufficient fidelity.

Good detailing in the script. Under current style of communication which was impressive. However, there were points that felt cliche/ "immature" as well.

Technically it is wonderful, but it is not perfect.

The maker clearly has a passion for horror, and he has been able to bring those elements into the screen very well. The overall integrity of the story might have shortfalls but the horror aspects were done well.

Worth a theatre experience.

From the first watch of Pariyerum Perumal, I have been a Maari Selvaraj fan. None of his other movies had come close to Pariyerum Perumal for me.

Vaazhai might have changed that. It is the deepest subject that he has dealt with. Pariyerum might still be the favorite, but Vaazhai is definitely pretty close.

The child actor has done a wonderful wonderful job. I can't think of any child artist who has carried a close to three hour movie on his young shoulders with a performance as intense as this one.

The movie shows deep real pains of everyday life. Stories that can only be told by people who have lived it. We don't get to hear such stories much because the people who live them are seldom capable of telling these stories. That is where Maari's craft comes handy.

Maari's movies consistently draws parallels between humans and other organisms. There are many consistent scenes in Vaazhai as well. The shot of a millipede (theratta) that gets on the boy's face as he sleeps tired and hungry, and then he moves to the side, and it falls off and curls.

The movie shakes you up. Everyday life is shown. It is the detailing that conveys. You can see a woman laborer carrying two bunches of bananas on her head. The sweat on her face, and how she is almost falling unconscious with the struggle, and how the feet is ruptured, and how dirty the clothes are - that is how the movie gets you. You see all that.

A genuine real life movie is the best of all. It will knock the excitement of Travolta saving Mia Wallace from ODing with an injection down her chest plate off the park.

The movie rattled me. Most likely I will settle back to my patterns, but may be not.

All of Maari's movies are annals from his life. This one was definitely the most striking.

A must watch.