Maya (2015)
Director: Ashwin Saravanan · Writer: Ashwin Saravanan
An artist realizes that the story that he is illustrating, about a ghost who was an inmate of an asylum in a forest, could be real. Meanwhile, an aspiring actress takes up a challenge to watch a horror film all alone in the theatre at night. How are these storylines connected?
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Director
Ashwin Saravanan
Cast
Nayanthara
Maya Mathews / Apsara 
Aari Arjuna
Arjun / Vasanth 
Amzath Khan
Ram 
Robo Shankar
Forest Officer 
Mime Gopi
RK 
Lakshmi Priyaa
Swathi 
Reshmi Menon
Anjali 
G. M. Kumar
Arunachalam 
Udhayabanu Mageswaran
Madhan User Reviews (1)
Maya begins in classic horror movie fashion. Vasanth Sridhar, an artist, tells his friend about the story he is illustrating for — a ghost story from the past involving an inmate in a mental asylum located inside Mayavanam, a forest. He tells how the ghost, Maya, haunts people who call her out and as the disbelieving friend does so to prove that it's all fiction, we see a shadowy figure. We are then told this was a prank but later, a character points out to a smoky form in the video sending a chill down our spine. The action then cuts to Apsara, an aspiring actress and a single mom, who is under financial trouble. She decides to take up the challenge thrown by the director of a new horror film to watch it all alone in a theatre at night. This, despite a distributor dying mysteriously after trying to do the same! Ashwin Saravanan skillfully connects these stories and when we get the rev…
