An exercise in futility

‘Intlo Deyyam Nakem Bhayam’ is formulistic to a fault and tells the tale without an iota of freshness.

It is worrying contextually that filmmakers are so archive-stricken and so lacking in courage to make bold either thematically or even with treatment.

Even with the basics they are so self -made and unlearnt that their contributions add but to the din of cinema.

The latest comic caper with discouraging footfalls is about the haunted house purchased by Gopal (Rajendra Prasad) after a painful prologue.

He arrives with brothers Chalpayi (Chalapathi) and Prabhas Srinu and their spouses. Gopal and his estranged wife (Pragati) meet up for the daughters impending wedding.

The new house is, however, haunted by a seismic ghost whose full time job is to arrive and satiate herself by the shrieks of her victims.

To scare is the only job of the ghost Swapna (Mouryani). A threemember band group–Naresh, Shakalaka Shankar and Chammak Chandra are imposter-exorcists.

They are in it to raise Rs 10 lakh to conduct a surgery for a dying orphan and to pay up the blood thirsty money lender– not to be confused with the modern day financial institutions.

The Band Exorcist is also in it to enable the musical romance of Naresh with Indumathi (Kruthika Jayakumar). Naresh is connected to ghost and the house is haunted with a cause.

How and why? Wait at your own patience quotient to explore. The post break narrative gets worse. Brahmanandam enters as a cop.

Our ghost with immediate cosmetic surgical needs is at her bouncy shrinking peek. Everyone in the film and those watching are victims.

The two women in Naresh’s life have a one-sided fight. The ghost has an upper hand. Her spirit enters who ever she wills and when ever and then it is bone-breaking spree.

Tired in your bones you wonder why even ghosts see reason but filmmakers don’t. You then join the guy in the preface who meaningfully asks: Illu chupedtanani torture chupedatao emi!