Movie Review | Highway: Plot-holes Make This Telugu OTT Movie A Bumpy Ride – FilmyVoice
Folks count on freeway rides to be quick, racy, and clean. However on display screen, Telugu film ‘Freeway’, ace cinematographer KV Guhan’s third directorial enterprise in Telugu, suffers on all three fronts. Fascinating in patches however largely predictable, ‘Freeway’ might but attraction to die-hard followers of the ‘cat and mouse’ sort serial killer style.
The film’s fundamental premise is ready round a serial woman-killer and a decided girl cop in Hyderabad. ‘Freeway’ shifts scene when a younger village lass lands in his clutches, along with her new love sizzling on their tracks. Regardless of the preliminary promise of a taut thriller, ‘Freeway’ finally ends up meandering alongside to a slightly unbelievable ending.
Vishnu, a promising photographer in Vizag units out on a marriage protection task in Bengaluru. On the best way, he and his buddy come to the help of Tulasi, a village belle from close to Amalapuram, searching for her father in Mangaluru, Karnataka.
They promise to drop her off at Kalyandurg, from the place she will be able to take a bus to Mangalore. Though it confuses the thoughts as to why she will be able to’t tag together with them until Bengaluru which is nearer to her vacation spot.
Parallelly, within the metropolis of Hyderabad, feminine cop Asha Bharat is on the path of a serial killer who retains leaving cigarette butts and tyre tracks on the crime scenes.
Das, performed by Abhishek Banerjee, is the smouldering villain, who retains staking out potential victims, as he retains cruising round in a beat-up ambulance van, proper underneath the cops’ noses. All of the whereas, the feminine cop retains snarling and mouthing the b****** and f*** phrases to vent out her frustration and willpower.
How Tulasi lands in Das’ clutches, Vishnu tracks her down, and at last rescues her, type the crux of ‘Freeway’.
The forged comprising Anand Devarakonda, Manasa Radhakrishnan, Sayiami Kher and Abhishek Banerjee strive their finest to do justice to their roles.
Anand Devarakonda as Vishnu, and Manasa as Tulasi, seem naturally inflexible and restrained as a younger couple who’re waking as much as their mutual attraction.
Sayiami Kher is satisfactory as the woman cop intent on catching the serial killer. Abhishek Banerjee, with a perpetual sneer writ on his face, is the dangerous man within the film which occurs to be his Telugu debut.
The technical excellence that Director Ok V Guhan brings in along with his cinematography, fails to elevate up the weak story line.
There are situations the place the director makes it too straightforward for the antagonist to kill and escape. Equally, different inconsistencies within the storyline add to the general inadequacies of the film.
As will be anticipated, Guhan handles the digicam with panache, whereas Simon King’s music rating helps preserve the story tempo.
For thriller film followers prepared to miss the main points, ‘Freeway’, regardless of the plot-holes, should still show to be an attention-grabbing watch over the weekend.
Movie: Freeway
Director: Ok V Guhan
Solid: Anand Devarakonda, Manasa Radhakrishnan, Sayiami Kher and Abhishek Banerjee
Streaming on: aha
Length: 163 minutes
–By Narendra Puppala
