Nisha (Urvashi Sharma) keeps hearing the (threatening) voice of one
Shankar, whom she believes to be the spirit of a former boyfriend, and in
her desperation she turns to her neighbour Sriram (Rishi), who in turn
gets her in touch with a psychiatrist, Harsha (Harsha Vadhan), who soon
enough suspects she's suffering from schizophrenia - which would explain a
lot, yet Nisha insists she's mentally sane ... so the three of them set out
on a trip to see Shankar's grave and this way somehow rid her of her
spiritual visions. It's just that Shankar isn't really dead (and he's
played by Shanti Chandra), so it's impossible for his spirit to haunt
Nisha ... thus she must be suffering from schizophrenia, right? Then though,
Nisha runs across Rajeev (Rajeev Kanakala), a man who looks and sounds
exactly like the spirit she's seeing and hearing ... so he must be the bad
guy, right? Wrong, even though Nisha along the proceedings manages to
persuade everybody Rajeev's a bad guy and he's even thrown into jail. Then
though, Sriram sees Nisha's spirit too, looking exactly like Rajeev ... but
that's impossible since Rajeev's still in jail. The whole puzzle is
solved by a regression procedure, where Nisha relives a past life of hers,
experiencing that her past self was actually killed by Rajeev's past self
(who was called Shankar back then). Then though Sriram undergoes a
regression procedure as well, finding out that he had a role in her former
self's murder as well ... and all of a sudden, Sriram turns out to be the
villain of the piece, trying to kill everyone and especially Nicha, but
Shankar and Rajeev manage to save her ... and become friends in the end. Despite
all the regression mumbo-jumbo, Three has a few points of interest,
inasmuch as in the second half of the movie, the plot seems to be turned
onto its head repeatedly, making sure to keep the audience's attention.
Unfortunately though, the first half of the film is wasted with a very
lame set-up for things to come that could have used some serious trimming,
while the actual finale (Sriram versus everybody) makes little sense in
the light of what has happened so far ... which is quite a pity because
this film from the Telugu branch of the Indian film industry could have
been pretty good - but as it is, it's boring towards the beginning, silly
towards the end, and what comes in between isn't good enough to make up
for either.
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