Recommended
The good bits involve a sequence when the villagers initially discuss about the meteorite amongst them with skepticism and naivety, a scene in which a character talks about how both Chinnasamy and Nallamuthu have hindered the village’s progress (it is a sly commentary on the politics in the state), and another moving one in which the birds and animals that are freed by the widow return to her of their own free will. The bit about a smaller space rock that hits the place a couple of days earlier and is turned into a deity is funny. There is also another significant one in which a character talks about preserving books, but it isn’t organically brought out. But what feels really out of place is the coda, where the director tries to add an alien element into this plot.