Athisayangalude Venal

Namrata Joshi noted in The Hindu that "the budget is negligible and the narrative minimalist while the emotional arc remains strong".[5] Shriram Iyengar of Cinestaan.com found it "surprisingly entertaining, funny, and unique in its story".[6] Cinestaan.com also included the film in its year-end list of '10 festival gems' of 2017.[7] Archana Nathan, writing for Scroll.in, noted that the film "beautifully moves between imagination and reality, science and faith, and knowledge and ignorance in its quest to understand the effects of the absence of a loved one".[8] Rasmi Binoy of The Hindu observed that the film is "a sharp detour from recurrent tropes of ‘child-centric’ cinema" further writing: "The simple, sincere narrative is essentially about how people deal with grief and tragedy, by escaping to their own fantasy worlds".[9] In his review in Asianculturevulture.com, Sailesh Ram wrote: "intelligent and questioning, this is a film for those who like something different and unpredictable and a film that is reflectively cerebral".[10] Aseem Chhabra picked the film among the finest 200 Indian films in the 2010-2019 decade for Rediff.com.[11]