AOR is a rare Telugu movie that'll make Hitchcock proud. Maybe am playing it up a bit, but Anukokunda's got class. Director Chandra Sekhar Yeleti's style reminds me of Ram Gopal Varma when he'd just made Shiva. Clearly, I missed the Aithe flares somewhere or else I would've found AOR much earlier.
Told with all modesty, coming from AP, AOR tells a story from a young woman's perspective. Sahasra (Charmy), a budding singer goes to a party with a friend and gets drugged. She wakes up two days later at her home; the next thing she knows is people in the streets are out baying for her blood. How she unravels the puzzle with the help of a suspended cop (Jagapathi Babu) and a Cabbie (Shashank) is told very grippingly.
Chandra Sekhar introduces half a dozen interesting characters, uses them very effectively in the story and rounds each one of them pretty well. What's more impressive is that the Director never loses his humour even in the middle of a tense moment.
A must watch. The DVD version has some decent subtitles.
