Dhootha
Genre	Neo noir Crime thriller
Created by	Vikram Kumar
Written by	Vikram Kumar Venkat D. Pati Poorna Pragna Sripal Reddy N. G. Thomas Venkatesh Dondapati
Directed by	Vikram K. Kumar
Starring	Naga Chaitanya Srikanth Murali Parvathy Thiruvothu Prachi Desai Anish Kuruvilla Tharun Bhascker Rohini Tanikella Bharani Priya Bhavani Shankar Pasupathy
Composer	Ishaan Chhabra
Country of origin	India
Original language	Telugu
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Producers	Sharrath Marar Vikram Kumar
Production location	India
Cinematography	Mikolaj Sygula
Editor	Naveen Nooli
Running time	43–53 Minutes
Production company	Northstar Entertainment
Original release
Network	Amazon Prime Video
Release	1 December 2023 (2023-12-01)

Dhootha (transl. The Messenger) is an Indian Telugu-language horror mystery thriller television series on created and directed by Vikram Kumar.^[1] It stars Naga Chaitanya, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Prachi Desai, Gnaneswari Kandregula, Anish Kuruvilla, Tharun Bhascker, Rohini, Tanikella Bharani, Priya Bhavani Shankar, and Pasupathy in primary roles.^[2] The series premiered on 1 December 2023 on Amazon Prime Video.^[3][4]

Cast

Prominent Leads

• Naga Chaitanya as Sagar Varma Avudhuri, Chief Editor of "Samachar"
• Pasupathy as Konidela Sathya Murthy, a freedom fighter, founder and Chief Editor of "Dhutha."
• Parvathy Thiruvothu as DCP Kranthi Shenoy
• Ravindra Vijay as SI Ajay Ghosh
• Jayaprakash as Konidela Chandra Murthy, Sathya Murthy's son
• Raja Goutham as Chakrapani Veerula, President of "Praja Vaakku Party" and Bhupati's friend; Raghavayya's opponent and Chakravarthy's grandfather.
• Tharun Bhascker as Bhupati Varma Avudhuri, Sagar's grand father and Anand's father.
• Jeevan Kumar as SI Ramana Ghosh, Ajay Ghosh's grand father.
• Tanikella Bharani as MLA Raghavayya, DCP Kranthi Shenoy‘s great-grandfather
• Raghu Kunche as Chief Minister Chakravarthy Veerula.

Supporting Leads.

• Priya Bhavani Shankar as Priya Avudhuri, Sagar's wife
• Easwari Rao as Raghavayya's granddaughter and Kranthi's mother (in a cameo appearance).
• Prachi Desai as Amrutha, Sagar's PA
• Sruthy Jayan as Kalpana, Raghavayya's maid and Chakrapani's love interest
• Satya Krishnan as Konidela Lakshmi, Sathya Murthy's wife and Chandra Murthy's mother
• Srikant Murali as Charles David, Sagar's friend-turned-foe
• Gnaneswari Kandregula as Kiran Reddy
• Rohini as Madhavi Avudhuri, Sagar's mother
• Anish Kuruvilla as Anand Varma Avudhuri, Sagar's father
• Chaitanya Garikapati as Constable Ranga, Assistant to Kranthi
• Ayush Agarwal as Konidela Sathya, Chandra Murthy's son and Sathya Murthy's grand son; a journalist aspirant.
• Teja Kakumanu as Tapas, Amrutha's Husband
• Nalla Sridhar Reddy as Koti, Truck driver
• Kamakshi Bhaskarla as Kala, Koti's wife
• Gururaj Manepalli as Priya's father and Sagar's father in law.

Episodes

References

External links

• Dhootha at IMDb