Khatarnak

The movie is the life story of psychopath Umesh who terrorized women all over Karnataka a few years ago. Though director Malavalli Saikrishna has brilliantly presented each of his criminal acts with a firm grip over script and narration, the message he is sending to the youth through this movie is questionable. There is sex, violence and killings that were part of Umesh’s life.

The narration begins with the childhood days of Umesh (Ravi Kale) and circumstances that forced him to take to crime. The murder of Roopa in 1985-86 in Chitradurga, another murder in a canteen, his dramatic escape from a train while being shifted to Bellary jail, his arrest by Hanumantha (Sharath Lohithashwa), an SI in Upparpet police station, his profession as a doll seller to murder women and how he hatched his plans to kill a woman form part of the narration. The only difference is that Umesh is hanged in the movie for his crimes - 21 murders and rapes.
Ravi Kale is a perfect choice for Umesh’s role. Roopika has done a good job, but in very few sequences. Shobha Raghavendra, as Ravi Kale’s mother, has given life to her role with brilliant performance.