Awe
Rotten Tomatoes - 92% (Audience)
Genre - Psychological Thriller
Directed By - Prashanth Varma
Produced By - Nani Prashanti Tipirneni
Music Director - Mark K. Robin
Cast - Kajal Aggarwal, Nithya Menon, Regina Cassandra, Eesha Rebba, Priyadarshi Pullikonda, Srinivas Avasarala, Murali Sharma
Released On - 16 February 2018
Budget - 6 Crore
Verdict - Hit
Storyline
Awe is a 2018 Indian Telugu-language psychological thriller film directed by Prasanth Varma and produced by Nani and Prashanti Tipirneni. It stars Kajal Aggarwal as the protagonist with Nithya Menen, Regina Cassandra, Eesha Rebba, Srinivas Avasarala, Priyadarshi Pullikonda and Murali Sharma in the supporting roles. The film deals with psychological issues like dissociative identity disorder, and social problems like child abuse,sexual abuse and drug abuse. It is the first Tollywood film to deal with homosexual relationships and sex reassignment surgery. A part of film's plot is inspired from 2014 Australian film Predestination.
Krishnaveni (Nithya Menen) is a psychiatrist. She and Radha (Eesha Rebba) are a couple trying to convince the latter’s parents to allow them to marry. Radha hates men due to some bad incidents from childhood.
Nala (Priyadarshi Pullikonda) is a down-on-his-luck man who pretends to be a chef so that he can gain some meaningful employment. He befriends a goldfish named Nani (Nani) and a bonsai tree named Chanti (Ravi Teja) in the kitchen.
Shiva (Srinivas Avasarala) is a watchman who aspires to become a scientist. He wants to invent a time machine to meet his parents, while Parvathy (Devadarshini) claims that she is his future self and has traveled back in time to prevent their parents' death, which is likely to occur in some time.
Moksha (Kaitlyn D'mello) is a little girl who works at her mother's (Pragathi) restaurant. She engages in a cold war with Yogi (Murali Sharma), an egoistic magician.
Mira (Regina Cassandra) is a waitress anddrug addict. She and her boyfriend, whom she calls Sugar (Lobo) (Upen Reddy) are gearing up to loot a rich man. Later on, Mira serves Raghuram (Balakrishna) and learns about him and the restaurant's connection.
Kali (Kajal Agarwal) is the main character who is linked to all these characters in some way. The movie revolves around all these characters who are all in the same place (except Kali), which is revealed in the pre-climax.
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