Expressive eyes of actress Suma Guha, her ability to frighten and Ramesh Aravind's presence in this `Shock' lend some relief from regular pattern of films to the audience. A remake of the Hindi film of Ramgopal Verma `Kaun' in Kannada this film was shot in minimum number of days at just in one house and with three characters makes it an easily passable film.
Hasu Rajasekhar has followed the original and extracted good acting from a newcomer Suha Guha. Ramesh Aravind and Ninasam Ashwath are familiar faces and they can take any type of roles.
In the huge house on a rainy night Ramesh Aravind wants to get inside the house where Suma Guha is living. The hallucination of Suma Guha is that anyone who gets inside the house will be a trouble shooter for her. It happens so when Ramesh gets inside the house using a trick. Hearing the sound in the balcony of the house Sumha presume that there is someone else in the house. She seeks the help of Ramesh who finds no one in the house. When the small cat in the house is seen murdered Sumha presume that she will be also killed by Ramesh. She makes a big scream and all she wants is to kick him out. When the door is opened another person is standing in front of the door. To save herself Suma now seeks the help of another stranger who pretends as a cop.
The belief in Suma shifst to a fake cop. The two strangers in the house of Suma quarrel further disturbs the mentally sick Suma.
Till then fine Suma now turns psychic. She kills both the strangers in her house on the same rainy night.
Suma Guha is the main stay of this film. The film mainly centers on her. Ramesh Aravind is very talkative and he is as at usual convincing mode. In a short role Ninasam Ashwath is impressive.
The film with no songs is striking also because of the background score. The camera movement is very important in this kind of psychic film and that gives the sudden shocks in this `Shock' which are attractive. Niranjan Babu has used all possible ways to focus his lens.
Scoring 7/10
