Masooda

Masooda is a horror story that resembles the likes of Hollywood's Conjuring. It's story has depth, and runs in flashes across the main plot of the movie.

While the unveiling of the horror's past happens in the latter half, the story holds a tight grip on the audience from the very beginning.

Some characters appears superfluous and could be safely removed without impacting the story too much. A few loose ends appear in the movie without much explanation - may be these are intended to pique the imagination or may be left to be clarified in an upcoming sequel.

This movie ends in a way that is not too atypical for this genre. However, the movie does justice to the genre it picked.

This is the best horror movie watched in recent times. Even though Director Sai Kiran's first movie he has done a excellent and terrific Job in designing the script and presented on the screen. Gripping screen play made the audience to sit for 2:40 min. The cinematography is top notch and BGM is excellent which elevated movie to the next leve. All the actors were performed and justified to their role special applaud to Thiruveer and Sangeetha Bandhavi for fantastic performance. Subhalakha sudhakar and satyam Rajesh play's key role. The movie start with low phase but from intervel the movie is next level. It should only watch in theatres. Don't wait for OTT release. Rahul has good taste in selecting scripts and he is on hatrick with this films. Once again congratulations for entire team who worked for this film..

What a kick-ass movie. The writing is beautiful. The setup of the story felt very orginal, rooted and the vibe of it (old buildings, asylums, and especially the back story of the Masooda be) is a fresh dimension unexplored in Telugu. The tinge of horror is carried throughout like a heart beat. And it gets intense as time passes. There is always some new element in every small scene, which is very captivating and contributing to the story. And the choices of locations, production elements, characters offered a fresh breath of air. There is foreshadowing, setup &payoffs, parallel plots, backstory built, red herring. And for the amount of characters created and designed beautifully, giving each one a distinctive personality is not a easy task and this world building is truly a massive effort.

Throughout there are beautiful framings and compositions and it amazed the viewing experience. Whether it is horror or slice of life, it is lighted and captured extraordinarily and in complete awe of them. There are some extraordinary montages. What a tremendous amount of effort you have kept, hats off to the team for that.

Sound of the cinema is a big strength. It is not the jump scares, but the objects in the scenes that created horror throughout (balloon bursting, cat outside the window,.....) Music is like a big elephant in the room, which sets the tone and tension perfectly and it scared the hell out of me.

Only let down for me is the dialogues, they sound very bookish. Especially during the conversations, it sounded very bookish. Rest they gave very good performances and they are apt choice to make them feel vulnerable.

Overall a banger horror movie in Telugu after a long time. Intha bayapetti em saadisthaaru bro 😂

This is going to be an underrated horror film of Telugu industry, i am a Kollywood guy, the screenplay was way much enough to make me understand the complete story

If you are a horror guy, then this is a right film for you, this movie is suitable for commercial lovers too from beginning to end you will love the way the movie is shot, even the songs are good.

1 is there a good story - yes 2 is the movie scary enough - yes 3 is the sound mixing good - yes 4 is the movie shot good - yes 5 is the story fantasy logical - yes 6 is there humour - yes 7 is there love and song - yes 8 is there unwanted characters - no 9 is the movie childish - no 10 should you watch it in theatre - yes, if not you can enjoy in OTT it will be good in home with decent acoustic setup or with better headphones

Ofcourse there are plot hole, but when it comes to horror fantasy you must accept the flaws

But First of all hats of the director and team, I am so glad how they built such a good horror story / film with so little budget.

Sadly the theater's are empty, people are going to praise the movie when it reaches OTT and going to miss the experience in theatre.

Note - this is not a movie to be watched with people around, better to watch alone to experience to the fullest potential of it.

"Masooda'' movie title itself rises a dim question to one whoever encounters it as movie title, but it's perfectly justified for its horror theme and spirit. Real horror, by its very nature is serious, haunting and when a genre movie is made on that approach, Masooda kind of experience happens. It's a complete experience movie and the experience is powerful.

Sangeetha is a physics teacher and husband burdened single mother, when her teenage daughter is effected by some mysterious behaviors, and when it's slowly turning into symptom of unknown illness, Gopi, an upright man, neighbor is the only help she is left with. When they attends a doctor, mother felt that's not going to be the right help, she left with only option to go for super natural cure. Whether we believe in super natural things or not is not the question here, it's not the knowledge, intelligence, questions that matter in the movie, it's the experience of a supernatural element in an ordinary life, movie gives the experience of fear, shock, terror, surprise with in the frame of a realistic and effective human drama. Supernatural events in in the story and its world and its effects are dramatically realistic is one of the best achievements of the movie.

This movie is seriously not for its story, it's for its pure and powerful horror genre experience and technical brilliance.

Thiruveer is surprising and brilliant, we can find his acting potential. Sangeetha as mother and Bandhavi Sridhar as daughter justified their roles to the fullest. Kavya Kalyan Ram is promising.

Writing at its best form, fine craft in direction and well executed movie. Special effects, make up are special mention, they are very lively.

Cinematography by Nagesh Bannell is excellent, it's perfectly terrifying marriage of story and visual, he is the talent to lookout for. Prasanth R Vihari Back ground music is horrifyingly effective, the two songs are very good and worked well in taking the story forward. Art work by Kranthi Priyam is impressive.

Masooda is a perfect blend of pure horror and drama with humanistic philosophy. Mise- en -scene aspect of the movie is very effective, production values of the movie that reflected in bringing out this horror drama is a special mention.

Beyond a well-crafted horror drama achievement, debut director Sai Kiran's attention to detail, ideas, and images made it remarkable horror drama. After Malliraava and Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya, Masooda is one more remarkable and promising work from Swadharm film house. Producer Rahul Yadav Nakka again succeeded in his painstaking path of cinema and exploring a completely different genre from his previous works.