When Basava, his friend Jhonny (Harsha Chemudu), and another thief named Geetha (Kavya Thapar) enter a village named Bhairavakona while evading police, nothing seems to be normal in this mysterious place. Even the cold opening, in which a man’s attempts to escape the village are thwarted, leading to a violent punishment of being tortured by a frog, piques our intrigue by teasing this weird, eerie world and its secrets. After a great interval twist, the back story of the village, its connection to mythology, and its dark secrets are revealed through a monologue, and the film doesn’t back on the myth or the magic of this place after that point. When the focus shifts to Bhoomi and Basava’s love story, the direction the film is trying to go in becomes pretty obvious. And moreover, when ‘perspective’ is the antagonist of this love story and ‘truth’ is the resolution, making the audience privy to this mistaken perspective before the actual truth is presented would have lent more gravitas to the emotion of the love story. The way this love story is dealt with is quite generic and feels like a wasted opportunity to actually play with perspectives and create some meaty drama.