Ghaati Review

Ghaati (2025) Movie: What's Behind

Anushka Shetty is renown for her powerful female centric entertainers and glamor roles. Of late she is not seen much on the screen but when she appeared she scored hits like Bhaagamathie, Miss Shetty and Mr Polishetty. She is now coming with a female centric film Ghaati. With creative director Krish who is known for his hard hitting realistic films helming the project, expectations are high. Amazon Prime bagged the OTT rights of Ghaati. Let us see what impact Ghaati created at the box office with its release on 5 Sep 2025.

Ghaati (2025) Telugu Movie: Story Review

Ghaati story revolves around a woman and her resilience against the dreaded illegal elements in the Andhra- Odisha border surrounded by the Eastern Ghats. 

Desi Raju (Vikram Prabhu) who works as a technician and his  niece Sheelavati (Anushka Shetty) works as a bus conductor in Andhra -Odisha border which is notorious for drug trafficking, the art mastered by Ghaatis. 

When cops and mafia goes on search of Ghaatis involved in Sheelavati type ghaati, their lives turn upside down. What is the dark secret of Desi Raju and Sheelavati and how Police Officer Viswadeep (Jagapati Babu), police Dandapani (John Vijay, Kaastala Naidu (Ravindra Vijay), his brother Kundhul Naidu (Chaitanya Rao), Mahaveer (Jisshu Sen Gupta), MP Naidu (VTV.Ganesh) are connected form rest of the developments. 

Ghaati (2025) Telugu Movie: Artists Review

Anushka is known for her powerful screen presence. However she failed to come with her basic expressions and expressions right though she even enacted high octane sequences. She just delivered dialogues and it failed to make any impact. 

Vikram Prabhu did his job  accordingly. He got good screen presence in the first half and did justice to his role. 

All the villains turned out to be mere caricatures, be it Ravindra Vijay, John Vijay, Chaitanya Rao just showed their cruelty in killing on the screen rather than making an impact with their presence. Jagapati Babu, Jisshu Sen Gupta, VTV. Ganesh and others just performed according to their roles. 

Ghaati (2025) Movie: Technicians Review

Ghaati story is penned by Krish. Krish as usual came up with a unique and different genre story. He starts the narration in an interesting manner but from then on everything turns out to be routine, predictable and monotonous. Much to the shock of all, Krish followed done to dust template for the screenplay. 

For all his creative thought in the initial plot, the narration and screenplay assumed a routine shades. The entire first half is filled with fight for ganja, police and groups trying to find the source and the lead characters trying to make their presence. 

The first half ends with template twist setting the tone for the revengeful second half. The first half turned just bearable while the second half turned out to be extremely unbearable. The scenes just come and go and the actors pass through the motions. 

There is no single scene that excites or gives goosebumps or thrills or increases the curiosity levels. Krish just got carried away with the idea but he failed to develop the characters. Krish also didn't elevate the emotions to the next level. Dialogues are just ok. Krish failed to make an impact as a director. 

Vidya Sagar Nagavelli handled the music department. The songs are situational but they didn't make any impact. Much to the disappointment of all even his background music instead of elevating the scenes turned out to be extremely loud irritating the viewers. 

The Cinematography of Manojh Reddy Katasani is in sync with the storyline. He could have used the camera angles even more technically to give a natural and realistic feel. The editing left a lot to be desired as there are many repetitive scenes that impacted the pace of the narration. Production values turned out to be average. 

Ghaati Movie: Advantages

• Interesting Subject 
• Couple of Dialogues 

Ghaati Movie: Disadvantages

• Outdated Narration 
• Weak Antagonist
• Missing Emotions 

Ghaati (2025) Movie: Rating Analysis

Altogether, Ghaati turns out to be outdated plot. Krish Jagarlamudi just got a creative thought, he planned an action entertainer with Anushka. But everything ended there as Krish failed to come up with powerful characters, basic emotions, screenplay right. He failed to work on the script. Considering all these aspects, Cinejosh goes with a 2.25 rating for Ghaati.