Red (2021)

Directed by

Kishore Tirumala

Genre

crime, mystery, thriller

Country

India

Runtime

2h 26m

Rated

UA

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 59 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is the prime suspect in a murder investigation. The case gets complicated when his lookalike also falls under suspicion.

suspensefulmysterioustensepacedinvestigativeconspiratorialdramatic

What happens

Red is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language crime thriller film directed by Kishore Tirumala and produced by Sri Sravanthi Movies. It stars Ram Pothineni in a double role with Nivetha Pethuraj, Malvika Sharma and Amritha Aiyer. A remake of the Tamil film Thadam (2019), it follows a murder investigation involving a civil engineer and his lookalike as prime suspects. The film was announced in October, had its principal shoot commenced in November 2019 and ended in March 2020. Most of the film was shot in Hyderabad, except for two songs that were shot in Italy. Red has music composed by Mani Sharma while Sameer Reddy and Junaid Siddiquii performed the cinematography and editing, respectively. The film was released on 14 January 2021, coinciding with Sankranthi, after being delayed from its initial release date of 9 April 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film received mixed reviews, but was a commercial success grossing over ₹35.64 crore on a production budget of ₹20 crore becoming the tenth highest-grossing Telugu film of 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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