Many films came on the high profile case of YS.Vivekananda Reddy's murder with each filmmaker coming up with their own theories and spinning own stories conveniently to propagate one particular party's agenda they staunchly support. Now another film titled Hathya released on24 Jan 2025. Let us see what ideology they support and whether they thow light on the real culprits.
Hathya story is inspired by the real life incidents in the case of YS.Vivekananda Reddy's murder and the motive of the murderers and how the investigation happened till now. Following the shocking and tragic demise of top politician Dharmendra Reddy (Ravi Varma) in Illendula, Kadapa district, the state CM Kiran Reddy(Bharath Reddy), dissolves the earlier SIT due to non progress and constitutes new SIT with sincere officer Sudha Rao (Dhanya Balakrishna) as its head.
Sudha starts her investigation and whenever she hits a roadblock, she starts investigation afresh with a new angle but much to the shock of her, she find out that her team had a mole. How she dealt with it and what are the developments in the case and how Dharmendra's daughter Dr.Kavitha (Bindu Chandramouli), ADGP Sekhar (Sivaji Raja) are connected and what twist Salima (Pooja Ramachandran) offered, form the rest of the developments.
Dhanya Balakrishna is good in her role as the SIT officer. She showed good body language and carried herself on the screen making her presence felt aplty. She showed good expressions and emoted well on the screen. Ravi Varma in the role of an aged politician but one gets a feeling that his look did not suit him.
Pooja Ramachandran is good and she showed the pain and trauma of a woman when her loved one is separated from her. Bindu Chandramouli made her presence felt as the daughter of the politician. Sivaji Raja is ok in the role of a cop while Bharat Reddy played the role of the CM. Others performed according to the story taking the narration forward.
Hathya story penned by Srividya Basava is based on YS.Vivekananda Reddy's murder. She decided to narrate the story and show her own view point and thought process through the investigation angle. The narration starts with CM dissolving the old SIT team and forming a new one to investigate the murder case.
As viewers already know the developments in the case and have formed their own opinion, they just wait to watch how the investigation process is shown and whether there will be any logical ending in the climax. However, the investigation process keeps on dragging with repetitive scenes except for the few twists here and there.
The dialogues are just ordinary and the entire narration gives us a feeling that viewers are watching 80s serials with no real developments and fast passed happenings. The climax is dragged depicting the bathroom murder with the axe so as to highlight the emotions but everything falls apart.
The story offered nothing new and screenplay adopted is convenient according to their whims and fancies and direction is just ok.
Anil Kumar's editing left a lot to be desired. There are many drags that slowed the pace of the narration and it ended up testing the patience of the viewers. In fact this turned out to be yawn fest. The cinematography of Abhiraj Nair is in sync with the story. Naresh Kumaran's song are just ok and the background score did not offer much. He just passed through the motions. Production values are below average.
Altogether, Hatya is a gripping murder mystery that keeps viewers hooked with its intriguing plot, strong performances, and well-executed investigation scenes. Reviewing Hatya, director Balaji Kumar presents Vijay Antony in a fresh avatar, successfully delivering a gripping investigation into the murder of a model. While the story took inspiration from few real-life incidents, the director succeeded with the screenplay and direction make it a compelling watch to audience. Regular Hollywood thriller fans might predict what next is going to happen, but for others regular audien If the team fine tuned a bit of script and trimming some slow moments, Hatya could have been even more impactful. Still, it is a worthwhile thriller experience. If you're looking for a Hatya movie review to decide whether to watch it, this mystery drama is definitely worth a watch it, this mystery drama is definitely worth considering! Considering all these, CineJosh is going with a 1.5 star rating for Hathya.