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Case no 666/2013
- 2/1/2013 10:19:50 AM
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Cast: Charan Tej, Aditya, Nanda Kishore, Guru Charan, Anurag, Nikitha, AshwinDirection: Venkat SiddareddyGenre: HorrorDuration: 1 hour 40 minutes.
Story: Three buddies - Bhaskar (Nanda Kishore), Chaitanya (Guru Charan) and Durga (Anurag) - go missing in the woods. Six months later a journalist investigating the case finds three memory cards containing the footage documenting the last terrifying details of their inexplicable ordeal.
Movie Review: You could say that this film falls somewhere in between a copy cat and an intelligent adaptation of the 1999 cult horror film, The Blair Witch Project. In the original we have the three young filmmakers who venture into the woods looking for a legendary witch. In this movie we have three best friends who go to a haunted forest guest house to prove a point to a friend and a stranger, Anand - a wannabe filmmaker played by Charan Tej - tags along enroute. The similarities spill over into the style of filmmaking - this film has also been made on a shoe string budget - as well.
However, there's no denying that Case no 666/2103 is the first ever "found footage" film ever in Telugu cinema. By Telugu cinema standards, this is a breakthrough film in every sense of the word, the 14 year time lapse notwithstanding! For that reason alone we need to raise a toast to the filmmakers for attempting to do something that's never been done before and they have done a decent job of it (except for the climax ie) as well.
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