Anushka Shetty’s Bhaagamathie received a thumping response from the audience. The horror comedy directed by Ashok was released simultaneously in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam languages. Many critics and celebrities have praised the movie on social media.

Recently, in an interview, Anushka revealed that none other than superstar Rajinikanth himself had called her after watching the movie. He appreciated her performance and congratulated the team for their success. Anushka said that was the best compliment she had received for Bhaagamathie.

Malayali actor Unni Mukundan is paired opposite Anushka in the movie. Jayaram plays the antagonist, and Asha Sarath is also there in a crucial role as a police officer.

Bhaagamathie is produced by Pramod and V Vamsi Krishna Reddy under the banner UV Creations.

Actress Anushka Shetty who had great year in 2017 with gigantic success of Baahubali 2 has started 2018 grandly. Her latest venture ‘Bhaagamathie’ has garnered unanimous optimistic talk and box office performance is also imposing.

Bhaagamathie is having dream run with no opposition at BO. Curiously, the film is also doing amazing business in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.

Seems like, Anushka is elated with super hit talk for Bhaagamathie. The starlet thanked cine goers, fans and others for making the film a commercial hit.

Anushka Facebook post reads, “I thank each one of you for your appreciation towards Bhaagamathie. Special thanks to my director Ashok gaaru and UV Team for waiting for four years and making this as one of the memorable movies in my career. We put in hard work in every character we do- only to entertain you more. Thanks to my fans and well-wishers who have been supporting throughout my career with their unconditional love. Smile always love- Anushka.”

As mentioned by Anushka, producers of UV Creations and director Ashok waited for four years for the actress to join the film. They are now double delighted with the response for the movie.

Anushka Shetty’s Bhaagamathie is having a wonderful weekend at the box office. After taking a flying start on this Republic day, the logical thriller is collecting solid revenues in its first weekend in all areas of its release.

In overseas, Bhaagamathie punched out half million dollars in just two days. After a 275K $ haul on its first day including the Thursday premiers, the film collected a superb $ 250K( approx) on Saturday to take the overall total past the $500K mark. Not only overseas in Telugu states , Karnataka , Kerala & Tamilnadu also the film having dream run.

Anushka’s commendable performance top notch technical valules have helped the film to get fantastic reports from all over. Thaman S scored terrific BGM for this film & Art director Ravinder & Madhie cinematography are another major assets.

Directed by Ashok, the film is produced by UV Creations.

Leggy lasso Anushka Shetty is definitely a lady superstar. The openings her latest outing Bhaagamthie got in all South languages- Telugu, Tamil, Karnataka (Telugu) and Malayalam is an indication of her box office stamina.

Apparently, audience across South are still in Baahubali hangover and are keen to watch Anushka Shetty on big screen. Since, Baahubali series was a super hit in all the languages, Anushka became a household name.

In fact, the G Ashok directed film got houseful collections for morning ,matinee and first shows shows in most of the centers due to positive pre-release buzz and bookings are exceptional for last three shows of the day as well.

Bhaagamathie received positive to extreme positive response from critics as well as audience. Hence, the movie is expected to rake record numbers in first weekend. With no competition at box office, Bhaagamathie will have dominating show for at least a week days.

Interestingly, Bhaagamathie witnessed over 60% occupancy in Kerala, despite heavy competition in the form of a star son film. The UV Creations production has done remarkably well in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on day one, as per trade reports.

 

Movie Name	Bhaagamathie
Movie Rating	3/5
Movie Cast	Anushka Shetty , Aadhi, Unni Mukundhan
Director	G Ashok
Music Director	SS Thaman
Production Company	UV Creations
Release Date	January 26, 2018

Male actors who score a series of hits and gain fans with each and every movie is called as a star. There are many stars in South India. But it is very rare for a female actor to be called as a star with good fan base and Anushka Shetty is one such a star heroine of South India. She has scored a biggest hit as a lead actor way back in 2009 with Arundathi and she impressed us with her performance in India’s biggest film “Baahubali”. She is good at what she does and she is now coming with “Bhaagmathi” directed by Ashok of Pilla Jamindaar fame and is produced by Vamsi and Pramod of UV Creations. This movie is being released simultaneously in Tamil and Malayalam under the same name. Let’s see how it works on us as it is releasing today.

Story

Eswar Prasad (Jaya Ram) is a central minister who got a huge following in his home state and is gaining more with each passing day. This doesn’t work well with central government. The central government assigns a task to CBI Joint Director Vaishnavi to malign the image of Eswar Prasad by making him guilty in false cases. They then goes to a prisoner named Chanchala (Anushka Shetty) who is an IAS officer and has worked for Eswar Prasad in the past to make false allegations and give false statements to prove him as a corrupt politician. To interrogate her, CBI moves her to an old bungalow in a forest which is owned by Bhaagmathi. They slowly start to experience the horror of Bhaagmathi and rest is the story of Bhaagmathi and Chanchala.

Cast and Performance

Anushka Shetty who plays the roles of two shades named Chanchala and Bhaagmathi did a fantastic job. She made a huge impact with the role of Bhaagmathi as an actor and she played the role of Chanchala well. Unni Mukundan is good. Jayaram as Eeswar Prasad is nice. Murali Sharma as ACP did a nice job. Prabhas Seenu, Dhanraj and Vidyu Raman generate few laughs. Asha Sarath is good as CBI Joint Director Vaishnavi Natarajan. Aadi Pinisetty is fabulous. All other actors did a nice job.

Writing Department

Story of Bhaagmathi is simple and screenplay is good in most of the parts. Dialogues are good.

Technical Departments

Songs of Bhaagmathi composed by SS Thaman who is in great form these days are good. He did a terrific job in scoring background music. He is the biggest asset of this Bhaagmathi and he lived up to the hype.

His work is well supported by good sound design. Madhie as a cinematographer did a superb job and he gave some best visuals and frames for this movie. Editing is good. Production values of UV Creations are good.

Highlights

Anushka Shetty as Bhaagmathi/Chanchala
SS Thaman Background score
Cinematography by Madhie

Minus

Becomes routine

Verdict

Bhaagmathi is story of a girl who worked as a secretary to a central minister who is good with people and evil ideologies to malign him. These characters enter into the world of Bhaagmathi in the name of investigation and she disturbs them. Director Ashok did a good job in handling this subject and everyone seem well engaged when it comes to interval scene. He could have taken care in writing scenes featuring Unni Mukundan as Shakthi as they seem unimportant. Everyone expect this movie as a horror and spooky movie but in reality it becomes routine after certain point of time which may disappoint audience to certain extent. To sum up, Bhaagmathi gives you horror effect in the first half and becomes political and murder mystery in the second half which entertain audience well.

In general, advance bookings will be high for star hero films. In very rare cases, audience show interest to watch medium range hero or heroine centric films on first day.

Curiously, advance bookings are pretty huge for Anushka Shetty’s upcoming horror-thriller film Bhaagamathie which is due for release on January 26th on Republic Day eve.

Besides Telugu states, pre-bookings are equally good in overseas and other territories since buzz is optimistic on the film.

Anushka is one of the most successful heroines in Telugu and is care of address for female oriented movies. Her last outing Baahubali 2 was highest grosser.

On the other hand, UV Creations is a trustworthy production house which made only commercial hits thus far. They have spent good budget on Bhaagamathie believing in potentiality of script. Bhaagamathie bungalow set alone cost them Rs 3 crores.

Director G Ashok was also seen very confident about his film scoring a super hit in all promotional events. Thankfully, no other Telugu film is hitting the screens this week.

These all positive factors are expected to work in favor of Bhaagamathie to rake big numbers on day one. Republic Day holiday is another big boon for the film.

Leggy lasso Anushka Shetty is only actress in Telugu in current generation to do good number of female oriented films. She has already acted in several heroine centric films such as Arundhati, Panchakshari, Rudhramadevi and Size Zero. Anushka’s next outing ‘Bhaagamathie’ is yet another women centric movie.

Bhaagamathie has been carrying positive buzz and prospects are optimistic on the project due to various reasons. Actress Anushka shed 20 kilos to play the lead role and she dedicated nearly one year time on the project. Director G Ashok has made the film with a unique story and UV Creations has spent adequate budget for VFX to provide best visual experience for audiences. Above all, Anushka’s last film Baahubali 2 grossed around Rs 2000 crores.

SS Thaman has once again rendered wonderful tune Mandara it is already trending

Bhaagamathie producers kick started the campaign in grand scale. The film is all set to grace theaters on January 26th as Republic Day special.

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After terrifying movie buffs with spine-chilling teaser, makers of Bhagamathie have released theatrical trailer today. Apparently, Bhaagamathie is not just another horror thriller; the film has a strong content.

Anushka is seen as a Government officer who tries to help people in a village led by a young guy (Unni Mukundan of Janatha Garage fame). Senior actor Jayaram is shown in negative role. Seems like, the film has political touch as well.

Story shifts to haunted house where Anushka is hidden. The scenes of Anushka tortured in the house are horrifying. “Yevadu Padithe Vaadu Ravadaniki, Eppadu Padithe Appudu Povadaniki Idemainaa Pashuvula Godda… Bhaagamathie Adda Lekkalu Thelali… Okkadni Ponivvanu,” uttered in high pitch by Anushka is major highpoint in the trailer. SS Thaman provided captivating background score and R Madhie’s cinematography needs special mention.

Directed by G Ashok and produced by Vamshi and Pramod under UV Creations, Bhaagamathie is all set for grand release on January 26th.

The teaser of Anushka’s much-awaited horror thriller, Bhaagamathie, was out today morning. The makers are expressing great confidence that the film will do well at the box office. On the other side, the teaser already started trending viral on the social media. The 30-second teaser has some intriguing visuals shot by the cinematographer Madhie. The teaser also has some thumping background score by the music director Thaman.

The surprising thing is that Prabhas, who holds a share in the film’s production house UV Creations has posted his review on the teaser. “She is always the first one to try out something new with every film of hers. Good luck Sweety and the entire team of UV Creations. Here is the teaser of Bhaagamathie.” posted Prabhas on his Facebook page.