A film on darkness phobia is the central focus of young director Karthik who is in the camp of veteran director Kashinath since 2001. After seeing ‘Aparachitha’ the yesteryears thriller cinema Karthik thought of directing a film only under the guidance of Kashinath. He assisted Kashinath in ‘Jackpot’ Telugu and is now independently handling the direction of ’12 AM’.

Working as an accountant in a private firm this commerce graduate Karthik from the school days participated in cultural activities. The eight longs years stay in the camp of Kashinath has given him confidence to take up his first film. In 50 days schedule Karthik is directing this film. 35 days will be night shooting for this film he says.

V Manohar is scoring two songs and he believes the two of the five songs click in maximum of films. So he is up to give two top songs for the film.

Alok is Abhimanyu from this film. He starred in ‘Baaji’ that crashed in the box office. Abhimanyu is his original name. He is the son of veteran Kashinath.

Vijayakumar an avid film watcher of all languages hailing from Tumkur district a civil engineer by profession believes that building construction and making cinema are similar. For this film ’12 AM’ he is investing Rs.1 crore with Kashinath as executive producer.