An Hour

No English release

written and directed by Prasanth Kumar

Release: 2 October 2020
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: Telugu

Young, unemployed Nanna seems to take everything in stride, even the arrival of unexpected package containing an artistic hourglass with the power to take him back or forward one hour in time.

The audio is mostly Telugu, but there are subtitles in broken English.

— Michael Main

What is this? Is it time machine? If it is a time machine, then who will send it to me?

DEBUT

An Hour (Youtube: Andhra Pradesh Channel, 2 October 2020).

VARIANTS

1 Telugu variant

TRANSLATIONS

Translations to English

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 2000 to 2099: AD 2020 and 2027

Timeline Models

Do Over: Nanna gets three chances at the job interview.

Time Travel Methods

N-Second/Minute Time Machine: a 60-minute time machine
Pocket Time Machine: the hourglass
Time Portal: The 7-year trip is through a time portal of some sort.

Themes

Save Your Family!: Alternate Nanna travels back to save his mother and maybe others of his family.
Travels into Yourself: It’s unclear what actually happens with original Nanna’s travels, but because original Nanna never sees his one-hour-earlier self, we believe that he goes back into his earlier self’s body to re-do the hour. This differs, however, from alternate timeline Nanna’s 7-year trip. He is clearly separate from original Nanna, but we don't know what happens to him or his timeline after he delivers the package.

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From Nanna’s house, 8:00am on the day of his interview ⋙ to same house, 7:00am. Note: Nanna’s first trip.
From Nanna’s house, 11:10am on the day of his interview ⋙ to same house, 10:10am. Multiple trips. Note: Nanna travels back twice before getting the job on his third interview.
From Nanna’s roof, 5:00pm after getting the job ⋙ to same roof, 4:00pm. Note: Sunil touches Nanna, and they both travel.
From Nanna’s roof, 4:10pm on the same day ⋙ to same roof, 3:10pm. Note: Nanna ditches Sunil.
From Nanna’s house, 11:00pm, probably on the same day ⋙ to same house, midnight. Note: Nanna’s first and only trip to the future.
From Nanna’s house, twenty minutes later (12:20am) ⋙ to same house, an hour earlier (11:20pm). Note: Must save Mom!
From Nanna’s roof in an alternate timeline, 6 September 2027 ⋙ to same roof, 6 September 2020. Note: Alternate Nanna takes his time machine back to the Nanna that we know and love. Alternate Nanna’s fate after this is never explained, but we do see original Nanna do everything over again, saving his mother (and the rest of his family?).

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Title—The title card reads “An hour” with no title given in Telugu.