Kiran Abbavaram's THE has been a fascinating project from the start. It grabbed people’s attention with its title and promise of a finely written thriller. But the film has many problems to sustain the thrills and deliver on what it promises. It all starts with the ambition to bend your mind without grabbing it in the first place. The film wants to feed you a lot of Biryani without really making you hungry. A great thriller can have the finest climax, yet if the film never really grips you, or worse, tires you so much to the point you don’t mind grasping the answer, that’s an engagement problem.
Director: Sujith – Sandeep
Cast: Kiran Abbavaram, Nayan Sarika, Tanvi Ram, Achyuth Kumar, Redin Kingsley
Set against the backdrop of the 1970s, THE follows Vasudev (Kiran Abbavaram), an orphan with an unusual habit of reading other people’s letters. He eventually takes on the role of a postman in the rural village of Krishnagiri, where he unearths troubling secrets about missing girls that haunt the village. Nayan Sarika plays Satyabhama, Vasudev’s love interest. Simultaneously, the story introduces a perplexing subplot where Vasudev is held captive by masked figures who probe into his past and his time in Krishnagiri. This mystery, the captors’ identities and motives, frames the dual conflict that THE attempts to unravel.
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