Immortal, the Tamil horror-fantasy fronted by GV Prakash Kumar, has made its way to Telugu screens. The film released on September 19 and picked up a 2.75-out-of-5 rating from 123telugu, which called the setup promising and the follow-through shaky.

Directed by newcomer Mariyappan Chinna, the film follows Mahi, a designer at his uncle's printing press who's had enough of his landlord's daily needling. Looking for a new place he can afford, he gets a surprise call from Sindhu, played by Kayadu Lohar, who offers him a room on a flat-share basis. He moves in. He falls for her almost immediately.

That's where things start going sideways. A run of eerie incidents leads Mahi to a secret about who Sindhu actually is, one that reaches back to a wild beast born into a tribal clan a thousand years ago. The film spends its back half working out how he tries to get out of her grip, and what any of it has to do with that ancient myth.

123telugu's review found real value in the idea of dropping an old folklore beast into a present-day apartment setting. Mahi's arc as an ordinary guy suddenly running for his life keeps the first hour grounded, the review said, and the slow-build romance between him and Sindhu, with him falling for her charm before he understands the trap, was handled with some care.

The trouble, per the review, is that the film never nails down rules for its own supernatural world. Ghosts and monsters aren't new territory for Telugu audiences, and a fantasy plot like this needed tighter internal logic to hold up. Instead, the scares lean on routine jump-scare tactics rather than earned tension, and the second half sags. Scenes repeat themselves, the pacing dips, and the story stops building on the spark it opened with.

On performances, 123telugu had no complaints. GV Prakash Kumar was described as natural in handling fear and vulnerability, Kayadu Lohar as striking and convincing in the mysterious lead role, with TM Karthik offering solid support. Arun Radhakrishnan's cinematography was singled out for its handling of both the natural exteriors and the apartment horror stretches, and Sam CS's score was called decent without being remarkable. The editing, the review noted, could have trimmed the second half further.

The verdict lands somewhere in the middle: a fresh core idea and capable lead work, undercut by a script that loses its nerve halfway through. Immortal already had its run with Tamil audiences before this crossover. Whether the Telugu circuit responds any differently to the same beast-in-the-city premise is now the only open question.