Eight strangers step into an elevator on an ordinary night, and none of them step out unchanged. Devil is a 2023 Telugu-language horror thriller built around a single confined space and the suspicion that someone inside doesn't belong.
What is Devil about?
When the elevator grinds to a halt between floors, the trapped passengers realize a stranger has joined them who nobody remembers pressing the button. Panic gives way to accusation as tempers fray in the cramped, overheated car, and the group starts turning on each other faster than they can figure out what's actually happening. Director Abhishek Nama keeps the action almost entirely inside the stalled lift, using the tight space to ratchet up dread as the passengers try to work out which of them — if any — is hiding something monstrous, and whether escape is even possible before someone else gets hurt.
About the cast
Kalyan Ram leads an ensemble that includes Samyuktha and Malavika Nair among the trapped passengers, with Satya, Vasishta N. Simha and Shafi filling out the group dynamic. Mark Bennington and Edward Sonnenblick round out a small cast built to keep the claustrophobic premise focused on a handful of faces under pressure.
Context & significance
Devil sits in the Drama-Horror-Mystery-Thriller space, an Indian production that leans on real-time tension rather than special effects to unsettle its audience. At a lean 80-minute runtime, the film commits fully to its single-location premise, trading spectacle for a steadily tightening sense that the elevator itself has become a trap. The short runtime works in the film's favor, keeping the pressure constant rather than stretching the setup across a longer feature, so the mystery of who or what is really inside that car never has room to lose momentum.
Watching Devil on Ktime
Devil streams on K-Time with a free account login, dubbed in Persian and carrying Persian subtitles for viewers who'd rather watch in the original language. It sits alongside K-Time's wider library of South Asian horror and thriller titles, browsable through the platform's Farsi-language interface built for Persian-speaking audiences abroad.