Hasyam (Humour) is the eighth movie in writer-director Jayaraj’s Navarasa sequence that has to this point yielded Shantham, Karunam, Bhibatsa, Adbutham, Veeram, Bhayanakam and Roudram, with another to return. Rasa means juice, flavour or essence, and – to place it within the easiest phrases potential –Navarasa within the Indian arts refers back to the 9 (nava) emotional states as captured by a murals, and as manifested within the viewers’s expertise of and response to that work.
