Its a one time watch. I watched it in Decemeber of 2020 recently during my school break and I realized that this movie came out 13 years ago! The maha maha song was catchy but the choreography was cringe (especially the floating shirts in the background of the song). Ammudu, the character Hero was always high.
Making a horror film arguably takes more creativity than making a formula mass film. And it’s okay to confuse creativity for sound and visual effects - at least that’s what Mantra proves fairly successfully.
One of the things you should not do with Mantra - one of the slicker technical products and better thrillers to come out of Tollywood in, oh, a decade - is try putting two and two together at the end. Oh, a hell of a lot of things do not add up, two and two is nothing. But the point is, they scare you with all the red herrings - and how. And watching it in Sudarshan 35mm....