Director: Srinivas
Producer: Gangaraju Gunnam
Music Director: SK Balachandran
Cast: Genelia, Arun, Prakash Raj, Raghubabu
Katha, the newest thriller in Tollywood, does thrill without that many frills!
A tamed down Genelia with newcomer, Arun, who clearly can act given the right impetus, the movie is set in Araku, and the stills and shots are beautiful.
The story begins with this young school teacher who moves to a small town for supposed solitude, and then gets mixed up with this new director and his team.
After a few warming up and other character introductory scenes, the girl’s traumatic past resurfaces to haunt her.
Clever use of medical terms like hallucination, psychosis, auto phobia etc., keeps the audience wondering.
The probable twists are laid out and we reach for the popcorn, anticipating, winning our bets.
Post interval, everyone is forced to eat their words, as the pace finally picks up and the katha gets murkier.
The last twenty minutes, are filled with a song, which we forget the moment it’s over, a stunt, finally making it a Telugu movie and the climax, which is by far the best in this!
For a Telugu thriller, it’s a good watch, though dreadfully slow in most places.
And if the songs had been avoided, the movie might actually have been better!
On the whole: Not a weekend must watch.
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