Anaganaga O Athidhi (transl. Once upon a guest) is a 2020 Indian Telugu-language thriller film written and directed by Dayal Padmanabhan and produced by Raja Ramamurthy and Chidambaram Natesan, under the banner Trend Loud. The film stars Payal Rajput, Chaitanya Krishna, Veena Sunder, and Ananda Chakrapani. The film is a remake of the director's own Kannada film Aa Karaala Ratri (2018), which itself is based on a Kannada play by Mohan Habbu translated from the English play LithuaniabyRupert Brooke. The music was composed by Arrol Corelli. The film released on 20 November 2020 via Aha to negative reviews.
The first look of the film was released by Vamshi Paidipally in October 2020.[1] The film was earlier scheduled to premiere on 13 November 2023[2]onAha but later it postponed and started streaming from 20 November 2023.[citation needed]
The film received negative reviews from the critics.
Navein Darshan of The New Indian Express gave 1.5 stars out of 5 and stated that "This is a film that bets on its final reveal and feels force-fitted into the feature film format".[3] Thadhagath Pathi of The Times of India gave 2 stars out of 5 and wrote that "Anaganaga O Atihidhi is sadly a thriller with many loopholes in it, but with a better script they could’ve been overlooked. This remake is a case of wasted opportunity with many beats of the original lost in translation."[4]
A critic from 123telugu noted that "But don’t expect anything special."[5]
