The story revolves around a Malayali middle-class family consists of Venugopal, Anitha, and their daughter Sreelakshmi alias Ummi.T he couple, Venugopal and Anita, though there are usual tiffs between the husband and the wife, lead a healthy family life. Anita strives to be independent and tries to find a job for herself to be so. Venugopal is a government employee. Venugopal's love for his daughter Ummi knows no bounds. As far as Ummi is concerned she needs her father's help for every single thing she does. One day, an incident shakes the whole family and the happy life ends. Venugopal fails to make out the reason for people's angry reactions on seeing him. He is thunder struck on realising the reason for the reaction of the people. The present day news stories appear in different media in Kerala which are replete with related cases add which fueling to spreading rumours.
After the success of Athithi in Tamil, this is the second movie under production by Spellbound Films Inc. Their third movie is under production simultaneously in Tamil titled "MichaelPatty Rasavum Dubai Rosavum", which is ready to release in May 2018. This movie was initially heard that, Mammootty was engaged to do the male lead Venugopal's role with another production company. But, the project didn't realised because the production company backed off due to Mammootty's poor performance in the box office for his recent movies. Then, Suveeran contacted, spellbound films and contracted to do the movie.
Filming
The filming of Mazhayathu< started in 30 August 2017 in a village named Kuttiady in Vadakara. The shoot went on for 30days in Vadakara and then the crew moved to Kannur district to complete the later part. In Kannur the shoot went on for 15days and few scenes were shot in Ernakulam and Chennai. Then the post production work started by end of November, 2018.
Music
The soundtrack features two songs composed by Gopi Sunder. There's two beautiful tracks composed by Gopi Sundar despite the market rumor of him composing songs which has resemblances to hit songs in other languages. The Audio is going to be released on 16 April 2018 in Crowne Plaza Hotel Dubai.
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Release
The film is released on 25 May 2018 The film received mixed reviews and many had views on the climax in regards to not revealing the culprit. But, the whole mood and making of the movie gave a different experience to the viewers.
Critical reception
Times of India Rating 3/5 Book my show users have reviews as four stars where critics reviewed it for 3stars and 69% likings towards the movie IMDB rated the movie with 7.3stars
