Pickle Entertainment, UFO Moviez, Zirkon Films Production, Astonia Media & Entertainment and The Third Eye Kreatives’ Mayasabha (UA) is the story of a film producer, Parmeshwar Khanna (Jaaved Jaaferi), who lives in a dilapidated theatre with his son, Vasu (Mohd. Samad). One night, they clash with intruders Zeenat (Veena Jamkar) and Ravrana (Deepak Damle) over hidden treasure. As they search for hidden gold, deception grows, secrets come tumbling out of the cupboard, and old wounds resurface. The film is about trust, faith and greed.
Rahi Anil Barve’s story is unusual and interesting. His screenplay keeps the viewers engaged and involved. Barve transports the audience to a different world altogether. The drama has intrigue value while the pre-climax and climax have shock value. But on the minus side, the drama has class appeal only, because it is devoid of the usual ingredients of a masala entertainer in the format viewers of Hindi cinema are used to seeing. Also, the shock value in the climax needed to be more original. Rahi Anil Barve’s dialogues are fairly nice; they should’ve been more impactful.
Jaaved Jaaferi shines in the role of producer Parmeshwar Khanna. He delivers a natural performance and leaves a fine mark. Veena Jamkar is lovely as Zeenat. She gets into the skin of the character and comes out trumps. Deepak Damle makes his mark as Ravrana. Mohd. Samad performs ably as Vasu. He is especially very good in the climax.
Rahi Anil Barve’s direction is very impressive. Although the film caters mainly to the class audience, it must be said that Barve has created a world which very few others could’ve created. Sagar Desai’s background music is very good. Kuldeep Mamania’s cinematography is fantastic. Yusuf Khan’s action and stunt scenes are thrilling. Preetam Rai’s production designing, and Surendra Prajapati’s art direction are very real and deserve special mention. Aasif Pathan’s editing is suitably sharp.
On the whole, Mayasabha is a well-made film which has the substance to entertain the class audience. It had the potential to do fairly well at the box-office, but lack of promotion as also poor awareness among the audience will come in the way of the full realisation of its box-office potential.
Released on 30-1-’26 at Inox (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay by Pickle Entertainment and UFO Cine Media Network. Publicity: below the mark. Opening: dull. …….Also released all over. Opening was dull everywhere.
