Ayyare | Theatres List

Ayyare is no commentary on self-styled godmen (and neither does it seem to be about the life and times of Swami Nityananda), but it is a story that makes you think over the conventional cynics' approach to fake swamis: if faith is merely a placebo, is that such a bad thing? If the object of your faith were indeed non-existent, does that change the difference the faith has made to your life?

Then again, Ayyare does not offer an analysis of the subject. Instead, uses it as a backdrop to tell a simple story about a self-styled swami - a story that, by the way, does not demean the i....