

Though the climax is replete with twists to keep one satisfied, it doesn’t really come as a surprise.īut, Kalki is worth watching on the big screen this weekend. The investigative thriller which initially intrigues soon gets predictable and routine, with scenes stretching more than needed. The BGM by Sharvan Bharadwaj and camera angles by Dasaradhi Shivendra, which initially work get repetitive after a while, boring the audience, especially during the fight sequences. Rahul Ramakrishna keeps the film engaging with his comic timing and humour.īy balancing the commercial aspects with the thriller elements, Kalki is one more feather in the cap for Rajasekhar after PSV Garuda Vega and Prasanth Varma after Awe.

Besides Rajasekhar, it is Ashutosh Rana who holds the audiences’ attention as the antagonist. Produced by Prateek Chakravorty and Shruti Nallappa under the banner Pramod Films, the film stars Kishore and Yasmin Ponnappa in the lead roles. Adah Sharma plays Dr Padma, Kalki’s ex-girlfriend – but her role gets type casted and she really has nothing much to do with the story. Kalki is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language short film, directed by Dhilip Kumar and written by film critic Baradwaj Rangan. Nanditha Swetha gets decent screen presence and plays a key role, someone whom the story revolves around till the end. Journalist Deva Dutta (Rahul Ramakrishna) too does his best to solve the mystery. When their beacon of hope gets brutally murdered, Kalki IPS (Dr Rajasekhar) is called on to investigate the case. Shekar Babu (Sidhu Jonnalagadda) is the town’s only salve, a kind-hearted man who stands for them.

In the 1980s, a town called Kollapuram in Telangana is grappling under the last visage of feudalism to survive the notorious MLA Narasappa (Ashutosh Rana) who exploits his people in all possible ways. Pulling off a thriller is never an easy job but Prasanth Varma manages to do it with minimum fall-out. As the investigation progresses, the film starts unfolding the background of the crime, events that lead to it and many more crimes that the town has endured. Kalki Review: Kalki is a gripping thriller which follows the trail of a police officer and a journalist in solving the mystery of a murder that has many strings tied to it. He begins digging deeper and finds out there’s more to it than what’s on surface. Kalki Story: A police officer gets assigned to investigate a crime scene in a town and finds out about a chain of crimes surrounding it.
