Trailer Review: AWE

If the teaser was intriguing, the trailer is all the more so.  Debutant Prasanth Varma is seemingly going to tell a heart-touching (and even heart-wrenching?) story.

The deserted soul (Kajal Aggarwal) is ominous, while the bewitching beauty (Regina Cassandra) is disturbingly lonesome.  Or so it seems.  Murali Sharma seems to be seen in his career's most performance-oriented role as a narcissistic magician.

Nithya Menen's behaviour is abnormal, much like Srinivas Avasarala's hairdo.  Eesha Rebba's is perhaps the only run-of-the-mill character.

Nani's sentimental 'Even we fishes cry' reminds one of those dolls (depicted with human heads) in K Balachander's 'Dabbu Koddi Prema' (the classy TV soap that used to be aired on Gemini in the late 1990s).  Sahi Suresh's art direction is a key element.

If all this is exciting enough, the announcement that the story is based on some real incidents is even more so.

The film comes with the caption 'Prapancham lo nenu.  Naa loni prapancham'.  Also seen are Priyadarshi (as a chef), Rohini and Devadarshini Sukumaran.

If music is by Mark K Robin, the cinematography is by Karthik Ghattamaneni.  Gautham Nerusu is the editor.