Eesha Movie Review

Eesha is the latest horror thriller that hit the screens on December 25, 2025. The film stars Hebah Patel, Adith Arun, and Akhil Raj in lead roles. Srinivas Manne has directed the film on a low budget. Read our review here.

Plot

A group of four close friends is challenged by a fake baba to spend three nights in a haunted house. If they manage to do so, he agrees to expose himself and accept that there are no evil spirits in the world. Excited by the challenge, the gang enters the haunted house, only to get the shock of their lives as strange things start happening to them. How they escape this deadly situation forms the basic story of the film.

Performances

The film features a noted cast including Hebah Patel, Siri Hanmanth, and Akhil Raj in key roles. Hebah Patel has done well in her career despite not having much acting prowess. She manages to hold the audience’s attention in Eesha. Adith Arun makes a comeback after a long gap and is just okay. Akhil Raj of Raju Weds Rambai fame is very good in his role. Siri Hanmanth does her supporting role well. The rest of the cast is not that impressive and is not worth mentioning here.

Technical Aspects

The production values are decent, but the sound design by RR Dhruvan is quite effective. The entire theme of the film depends heavily on sound, and the background score elevates a few scenes well. The editing is weak, as several repetitive scenes should have been trimmed in the first half. The writing lacks strength and does not create the required tension expected from a horror thriller.

Positives

1.⁠ ⁠Sound Design
2.⁠ ⁠A Very Few Thrills

Negatives

1.⁠ ⁠Lack of Emotional Connect
2.⁠ ⁠Dull Start
3.⁠ ⁠Poor screenplay

Analysis

The makers of the film promoted it as a film that definitely provides thrills and chills like no other horror film in recent times. They even asked the audience to sign a consent form before stepping into the theatres. All of those statements from the makers were just a publicity stunt, or did the film really have enough substance to thrill the audience in the theatres? The simple answer is – No, the film does not have the substance to engage the audience with a gripping and thrilling screenplay. However, it has a good sound design that provides a few jump scares here and there. Apart from those few thrilling moments, the rest of the film does not excite at any point. The director, Srinivas Manne, selected a very unexciting story and came up with an equally unexciting screenplay.

The film takes a lot of time to open the conflict point and when it does, it lacks the required emotional depth and the tension in the proceedings, which was not handled effectively. Initially, the sound design, excites and provides a few thrills but after a point, the repetitive usage of loud sound effects, suffocates. Since there is not much story, the director relied heavily on providing cheap thrills but most of them did not work. The film has a few decent to good moments during the climax, but by then, we have already reach the point of exhaustion.

The audience in this generation are exposed to the well made content across languages on OTT platforms. It is impossible to let the audience sit through the film, with pretty ordinary story and execution. There’s no way a director can get away just by relying heavily on one technical accept of multiple crafts of a film. Overall, Eesha, feels outdated and it fails to engage the audience.

Bottom Line: No Thrills. Only Noise.

Rating: 2/5