PremiumAgnyathavasi trailer: Missing people, murder and the three ways to get to the truth
Agnyathavasi trailer: Directed by Gultoo maker Janardhan Chikkanna, Agnyathavasi is a murder mystery, presented in a never-before-seen format for Kannada audiences. The film releases on April 11
Last Updated: 07.01 PM, Apr 03, 2025
To find out the truth in a crime, there are three ways – with an eye witness, suspicion (finding proof for it) and/or out of fear of death. So says the trailer of Agnyathaavsi, an upcoming Kannada murder mystery , directed by Gultoo fame Janardhan Chikkanna and produced by filmmaker Hemanth M Rao under his banner, Dakshayini Talkies. The film, which has been ready for a while, is finally finding its way to theatres and will release on April 11, ahead of which, the team released the trailer, featuring Rangayana Raghu, Sharath Lohithashwa, Siddu Moolimani, Pavana Gowda, Ravishankar Gowda, among others.
The plot of Agnyathavasi
As was revealed in the earlier trailer, Agnyathavasi revolves around the mysterious disappearance of 3 people and a death, with the latter likely a murder. According to the film’s official synopsis, Agnyathavasi is set in 1997, when a lone police outpost in a small village in the Malnad region witnesses a crime after 25 years. When the inspector begins investigating the crime, it takes him down a path that opens up a Pandora`s box of secrets buried in that town.
Based on a story by Krishna Raj, Agnyathavasi features Hemanth’s regular collaborators Advaitha Gurumurthy as cinematographer, Ullas Hydur for production design and Charan Raj as composer. The film was meant to be Janardhan’s sophomore project, but delays in the release meant that his collaboration with KRG Studios and TVF, the comedy film Powder came out after Gultoo. Powder, which had Diganth, Dhanya Ramkumar, among others on the cast, failed to work at the box office.
Agnyathavasi was also meant to be the first film with popular supporting actor Rangayana Raghu in the lead, a distinction that eventually went to Shakhahaari. In a recent media interview, Hemanth had revealed that the decision to delay the film’s theatrical release was in the hope of finding a conducive window, given the slump the Kannada film industry has been facing off late. It will now be one of three Kannada films releasing next week, what with biggies from other industries also at the box office, like Ajith’s Good Bad Ugly, Mammootty’s Bazooka, Premalu fame Naslen’s Alappuzha Gymkhana and Basil Joseph’s Maranamass.