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Critic Review
Katha (2009)Chitra (Genelia) is a loner who comes to Araku seeking employment as a school teacher. Krishna (Arun) is an aspiring director who comes to Araku for a test shoot and to complete the script of his debut film. Circle Inspector (Prakash Raj) has a wife & young kids. Chitra spent an year in a mental asylum because she witnessed her family being murdered. Chitra & Krishna become friends. While Chitra is looking through her binoculars, she witnesses a murder where she can clearly see the victim's face. Chitra reports the incident to the police, but they find no evidence of the crime. Chitra suspects that her past mental condition is relapsing. Eventually, the police finds out that the female victim did, in fact, exist. They have a CD that shows Circle Inspector & the female victim together in a store. The victim is none other than the Circle Inspector's dead girlfriend's daughter. He cannot acknowledge their illegitimate relation without tainting his reputation. It is revealed that he lured his daughter to Araku to kill her. Although Chitra witnessed the murder, the Circle Inspector tried to make it look like a figment of Chitra's imagination, and is infuriated when Chitra refuses to believe that the murder was her hallucination. Chitra & Krishna try to take the disc & escape, but Circle Inspector tries to kill Krishna, whose foot is injured by Krishna. Circle Inspector's holds Krishna at gunpoint, but Chitra refuses to give the disc to him. She slaps the Circle Inspector, who decides to let go of Krishna and commits suicide. Chitra says that she didn't think that Circle Inspector was going to kill her & Krishna because he already framed a dead officer for the victim's murder. Chitra & Krishna take the disc as evidence to the police. The film ends with the union of Chitra & Krishna..
The titles come on innovatively accompanied by photos of some of the world’s greatest directors like Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Spielberg, etc. Seemed like the director tribute to this maestros only ended up raising more expectations!!!.
Yet the film is watchable for its sheer simplicity and the suspense factor. Along with the character of Chitra, you are manipulated too. Despite its shortcomings, Katha is definitely more watchable than any other December release..
Plus points of the movie are Genelia and basic story idea. The negative points are second half and redundant scenes of projecting hallucination. We expect a better and intellectually stimulating movie from the banner of Just Yellow that produced films lik.
