The suspense thriller Oka Pathakam Prakaram, starring Sai Ram Shankar, is receiving a great response from the audience and is clocking record views on the SunNXT OTT platform.
Directed by Vinod Vijayan, the film stars Sai Ram Shankar, who is the brother of popular director Puri Jagannadh. The movie was jointly produced by Vinod Kumar Vijayan and Garlapati Ramesh under the banners Vinod Vijayan Films and Vihari Cinema House Pvt. Ltd. It was first released in theatres on February 7 and started streaming on SunNXT from June 27.
As part of an interesting promotional campaign, the film team announced a reward of ₹10,000 for anyone who could correctly guess the identity of the villain after the interval. They also selected 50 winners, one from each of 50 theatres, and gave out a total prize amount of ₹5 lakh. A special show was arranged for media persons, and the prize money was given to winners in different theatres. The film got a positive response from the audience.
After doing well in theatres, the film is now also performing strongly on OTT. Viewers on SunNXT are appreciating the movie, and it has become a successful comeback for actor Sai Ram Shankar. In the movie, he plays a public prosecutor named Siddharth Neelakanta. The story revolves around a series of murders in Visakhapatnam. The police suspect Siddharth, but is he really the killer? Or is someone else behind it all? That mystery forms the main plot of the film.
Producers Vinod Vijayan and Garlapati Ramesh expressed their happiness: “This shows once again that when we make a good film, the audience will support us. We are thankful for the love the film received in theatres and now on OTT too. We especially thank Mr. Shashi Kiran Narayan, Content Head at SunNXT, for helping us with the OTT release. Thanks also to our hero Sai Ram Shankar and the entire team for their hard work.”
The film also features Shruti Sodhi, Ashima Narwal, Samuthirakani, Ravi Pachamuthu, Bhanushree, Garlapati Kalpalatha, and Pallavi Gowda in important roles.