Review of ‘Maaya’: Slow, simple but engaging thriller

The slowness and less illustrated 'vision' element makes for a subdued experience

Rating: 3/5

Cast: Harshavardhan Rane, Avanthika Mishra, Sushma Raj, Nandini Rai, Nagababu
Director: Neelakanta
Producer: M.K.V Reddy
Music Director: Shekar Chandra
Presented by: Madhura Sreedhar
CBFC Rating: U/A
Run Time: 120 Minutes
Release Date: August 1st, 2014

Genre:

Thriller-Romance-Drama

Plot:

Meghana (Avanthika), a young TV reporter with a social duty, meets Sidharth Varma (Harsha Vardhan), a prominent fashion designer from Delhi, who comes to Hyderabad to promote regional dressing materials. Meghana, who loves his work already, is assigned to film a documentary on his work. As they slowly reach a congenial space together, Meghana starts having these visions about deaths of people that she may witness in future, not for the first time, because of her special ability called ESP (Extrasensory Perception) or Sixth sense. As she discovers that Sidharth is already engaged to her childhood best friend Puja (Sushma), she also sees a disturbing vision involving them.

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