Socio fantasy has lot of demand and craze among audience. Whenever a movie with good content comes in this genre, audience never fail to encourage. We have so many movies Yamagola, Magadheera, Yamadonga and a lot which were successful at box office. Karthi, who is familiar with Telugu audience so much with his movies is coming with his second movie in the genre of socio fantasy after Yuganiki Okkadu under the direction of Gokul produced by PVP Cinema and Dream Warrior Pictures co starring Nayanathara which is said to have heavy CG work. This movie is releasing today in Telugu and Tamil. Let’s see how it works on us!!

Story

Kashmora (Karthi) is a fraud who feeds on people’s fear and ignorance in the name of ghosts and dark powers. He makes people believe that he has supernatural powers and plays with their superstitions. He plans the problems and solves them. This is how he plays with people along with his family. One fine day a local politician Dhanakoti sends all the documents and money along with gold and diamonds to his house to put them away from the sight of Income tax officials. Knowing this Kashmora’s family runs away with them and are trapped in a old palace of Rathna Mahadevi (Nayanathara). Why are they trapped there?? How they escape from the palace?? Who is Rathna Mahadevi and what is her story?? forms the rest of the story.

Cast and Performance

Karthi is terrific as Kashmora as well as Raj Nayak, the leading warrior. His performance and body language for both the characters are superb and are to be well appreciated for the hard work he put in to make those characters come alive. Sri Divya is okay in her role. She has a very limited role. Vivek is good as Karthi’s father. Nayanathara who comes in flashback has a very limited role and do not have scope to perform. She is totally wasted. Other artists performed to the extent of their roles.

Writing Department

Story of Kashmora is simple and good. Screenplay is engaging at parts and dialogues are okay as the movie is wholly based on dialogues. Too much Tamil nativity scenes spoiled the magic for Telugu audience.

Technical Departments

Compositions by Santosh Narayan are good but the choice of lyrics for them in Telugu made them bad. Songs are not so good to hear. Santosh Narayan showed his potential in composing background score and elevating scenes. Cinematography by Om Prakash is nice. Visuals look terrific with nice color pattern. Editing by V J Sabu Joseph is good. He could have done better job in maintaining the pace of the film. Action and war sequences are well composed. Production values are super rich.

Highlights

• Karthi as Kashmora and Raj Nayak
• Cinematography by Om Prakash
• Background score by Santosh Narayan

Minus

• Too much scenes of Tamil nativity
• Slow pace

Verdict
This movie begins on an interesting note revealing a scene which connects to the main plot and then shifts to the story of fraudulent Kashmora who deceives people and lives on them creating fear and playing with their innocence and superstitions. Scenes written to run this story and slow paced and are full of Tamil nativity which fail to generate laughs among Telugu audience. Audience finds a bit less interested during these scenes and movie becomes interesting with the pre interval scene where Kashmora and his family is terrified by the real dark powers. This scenes works out well showcasing Karthi acting skills and also giving audience a situational humour relief. Second half begins and it fails to continue the interest generated with the pre interval scene and seems dragged till flashback but has some laughter moments. Nayanthara is wasted with a role that do not have any scope for performance. Visual effects are good. To sum up, Kashmora is a watchable fantasy movie for Karthi and visuals despite of its slow pace.

South heroes consider moustaches very prestigious, and unless it was necessary for any film, no actor generally shaves it.

Tamil actor Karthi, who enjoys decent stardom in the Telugu states, has the other days faced an embarrassing situation when his fake moustache fell off during a press meet.

To promote his upcoming film ‘Kashmora’, a pressmeet was organized the other day in Hyderabad. While Karthi was enthusiastically speaking about the movie, his artificial moustache started to trip off. The actor tried to cover it with his hand, but as it continued to trouble and embarrass him in front of media men, he stopped the press meet and had to go out to correct it.

The embarrassing scene has become a headache for the actor, who always sports moustache in films. Reportedly, Karthi had to shave off his original moustache for his new film being directed by veteran filmmaker Mani Ratnam.

Young Telugu actress Sri Divya has the other day stunned everyone when she arrived in her posh BMW car for a press conference held in Hyderabad.

Even though she hasn’t tasted much success in the Telugu film industry, the good looking Telugu girl has reportedly bought this posh car with her hard earned money with a successful career in Tamil film industry.

After making her silver screen debut as heroine with Ravi Babu’s Manasara in 2010, Sri Divya acted in only a few films including Maruthi’s Bus Stop and Mallela Theeram Lo Sirimalle Puvvu. The child artiste-turned-heroine soon shifted her base to Kollywood and became quite a popular actress among mid-range heroines.

Her two big releases, each opposite Karthi and Jiiva, are now ready for release. She is reportedly so busy with Tamil films that she didn’t even dub for her role in the Telugu version of Kashmora.

Actor Karthi, who will soon be seen in the high budget VFX thriller ‘Kahsmora’, has revealed a few interesting details about the film.

When the film was titled ‘Kashmora’, it was assumed to be a horror film but the theatrical trailer surprised everyone with its visual effects and period backdrop. Now, Karthi has said that ‘Kashmora’ doesn’t cater to one particular genre as it has the elements of fantasy, horror, thriller, periodical and comedy. He added that to cut down the serious theme of the film, makers included enough comedy in the film.

Karthi also said that he has played three roles in the film. The character of Kashmora will be crucial as his character revolves around black magic. He will also be seen Raj Nayak, a warrior king from an era gone 500 years ago. He however refused to divulge details about his third character.

‘Kashmora’ will release worldwide on October 28.

Tamil star hero Karthi who impressed the Telugu audiences with his performance in the film Oopiri has recently opened up about his dream role. Usually, people opens up about the remuneration adding their dream roles. Now, Karthi also did something similar. Karthi was asked about the maximum and heavy remunerations being given to the heroines in the film industry, and the actor said that everyone is getting what they actually deserve. He also added that the remuneration is being given basing on the star image but not gender.

Also, when Karthi was asked whether he would opt for less remuneration if there is some challenging role, he gave an interesting answer. Karthi said that he is ready to opt less remuneration if someone offers him to play a farmer role and most importantly the film should have a message.

The first look of Karthi’s upcoming film ‘Kashmora’ has been released and it is quite interesting.

After enacting lover boy and mass hero roles, Karthi is gearing up to be seen as a menacing warlord in Kashmora. In the first look, he was seen wearing a belligerent armor and holding a ‘Kalakeya’ like weapon. In fact, Karthi’s look is a mixture of Kalakeya and Kattappa, the two unforgettable characters from Baahubali. It takes a while to recognize it was Karthi after the first look poster.

Also starring Nayanthara and Sri Divya, Kashmora is the first film to use 3D face scanning and 360-degree Omni-directional camera technologies. Gokul is directing this film produced by PVP in Telugu and Tamil with a whopping budget of Rs 60 Cr. Post production work is in full swing, and the film will hit screens for Diwali this year.