A family dinner goes wrong. Very, very wrong. Who's really protecting whom?
A psychological thriller deals with the importance of protecting family values, and propagates the primacy of women in our lives.
Acting
Shraddha Das carries the film's psychological weight
Direction
Manikanth weaponizes silence and domestic spaces
Writing
The title's 'misunderstanding' is deeply ironic
Director
Thellaguti Manikanth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'Arrtham' (meaning/misunderstanding) plays on a Telugu linguistic pun that English can't capture — the film's entire thesis lives in this untranslatable wordplay.
Director Thellaguti Manikanth reportedly developed this after observing how 'family honour' narratives in Telugu cinema almost always center male saviors, deliberately inverting the trope.
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