Aayutha Ezuthu received positive reviews. Indiaglitz wrote: "Worth watching". Nowrunning rated the film 4 out of 5. Sify wrote: "Aayitha Ezhuthu is a bold and daring move by Mani Ratnam to change the staid style of our commercial cinema". The Hindu wrote: "Every frame of Madras Talkies' "Aayudha Ezhuthu" bears the Mani Ratnam stamp and that's what matters. If silence and secrecy can stoke up interest, it has. And again, if the stature of a director can hype up a project, it has". Visual Dasan of Kalki wrote that the usual exuberance that permeates Mani Ratnam's films is also present in Ayudha Ezhuthu but there is no intensity in the flood; only the murmur of the stream.
