Throw: Tamannaah Bhatia, Hebah Patel, Vashista, Murali Sharma, Vamis, etc.
director: Ashok Teja
grade: ★★☆☆☆(2/5)
Tamannaah Bhatia surrounds after a charming audience plays romantic characters and hoarse dance numbers Odra 2depicting a ferocious Naga Sadhu. Her character left home since childhood and was fully committed to Lord Shiva. Meanwhile, her home country village was intimidated by a revengeful ghost targeting the bride, throwing the community into chaos.
Amid the villagers’ desperate plea, she returns to the powerful Naga Sadhu facing the vicious spirit. Initially, she was confident in the ability of the uniformed forces and soon realized that it was far beyond her control. As the fear grew, the villagers began to lose faith—not only in her, but in God Himself—and asked her to leave.
Director Ashok Teja gives ghosts the power to exaggerate, pushing supernatural angles to illogical extremes. This movie borrows a lot Arundhatia cult classic in Telugu movies, even echoes the conflict in its center. However, Odra 2 No captures the magic or emotional resonance of the movie.
The climax is out of control, and the ghost’s antics are becoming more and more ridiculous, which could hurt its box office prospects. Despite being a sequel, the narrative is ambitiously extended to the scene of discussing the cursed village with Himalayan Sadhus during meditation, a unique and incredible touch.
Tamannaah offers a compelling performance that brings a compelling horror script to an otherwise formulaic horror script. The first half provided some real thrill, but the second half was staggering. This movie celebrates the power of Lord Shiva and touches Gomata (Cow), it quickly slides into the terrifying parables of clichés and tiredness.
The film opens in shock, as a female student walks into a police station with a cut-off. The backstory shows that the villagers punished the serial rapist’s body in a strange ceremony, just to get him back to the bride’s spiritual predation. When they seek help from the prison woman (Hebah Patel) who killed her husband, they turn to her sister – Sadhu, a spiritual warrior played by Tamannaah, for redemption.
Writer and co-creator Sampath Nandi tries to add depth with the mysterious Naga Sadhu layer, but the script has plot holes and leans on genre tendencies to provide a predictable experience.
