Mukhachitram () is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language legal drama directed by Gangadhar and starring Vikas Vasista, Priya Vadlamani, Ayesha Khan and Chaitanya Rao with Vishwak Sen in an extended cameo.

Plot 
Raj (Vikas Vasista) is a plastic surgeon who marries Mahathi (Priya Vadlamani), a village girl who lives with her father and  tells tuition. Maya (Ayesha Khan) is his childhood friend, who is an orphan and loves him a lot. She writes romantic blogs. One day, Maya gets into a fatal accident due to which Mahathi gives blood to Maya even though she is pregnant which leads to her death. 

Out of shock and depression, Raj does plastic surgery and exchanges Maya's face with Mahathi's. He marries Maya and tries to move on. They make Mahathi's family believe that Mahathi is alive by showing Maya to them. Maya who is an orphan and always wanted a family for herself gets easily attached to them. 

One day, when Raj goes out of station for work, Maya finds Mahathi's phone and sees her recordings sent to her mom who died long back. While hearing those it gets revealed that Raj has killed Mahathi. Through Raj and her common friend Dr.Satya, who had lust on Mahathi, she finds out that Raj is a rapist who always tried to assault Mahathi. When she tried to fight back, he killed her and made it look like an accident by doing a face transplantation surgery to Maya. Enraged by all this Maya decides to bring justice to Mahathi.

When Raj comes back, she provokes him to assault her and secretly records it. Later, she hits him hard due to which he loses his jawline making him a mute. She files a case in court against him with the help of lawyer Viswamitra (Vishwak Sen). They win the case at last by getting Raj arrested and proving that marital rapes are more in India than other countries. 

The film ends with Maya taking Mahathi's place in her family and telling tuitions instead of Mahathi in her village. It is later revealed that Viswamitra is none other than Mahathi's cousin with whom her aunt wanted to get her married in her childhood, but she ends up marrying Raj.

Cast 
Vikas Vasista as Rajkumar 
Priya Vadlamani as Mahati
Ayesha Khan as Maya Fernandez
Chaitanya Rao Madadi as Dr. Satya
Vishwak Sen as Lawyer Viswamitra (extended cameo appearance)
P. Ravishankar as Lawyer Vashishta
Sunil as Dr. Varma
Sruthi Singampalli as Durgamattha, Mahati's aunt and Viswamitra's mother
Meer S as Raghuramaiah, Mahathi's father
Bindu Chandramouli as Vashishta's wife
Divya Narni as Sruthi, Maya's friend
Rocket Raghava as Marriage broker
Bramarambika Tutika as Viswamitra's assistant lawyer
Harsh Roshan as young Rajkumar
Baby Divya as young Maya

Reception 
A critic from The Hindu wrote that "Mukhachitram makes a point about marital assault and the need to give the victim an empathetic hearing. If only it had been written, narrated and enacted better". A critic from 123telugu wrote that "On the whole, Mukhachitram has a relevant topic that works just in parts". Nelki Naresh Kumar for Hindustan Times rated 2.5 stars out of 5 stars and wrote "Ayesha Khan impresses with glamour. Vishvaksen guest-starred as a lawyer in the climax." Satya Pulagam for ABP News Telegu rated 2 stars of 5 stars and wrote "Chaitanya Rao's acting and dialogue delivery are good. His timing is laughable at times. Ayesha Khan stopped at the basics in acting. She still needs a lot of improvement. Ravi Shankar's voice helped with the role of a fire lawyer in acting."

Home Media 
The streaming rights of the film were acquired by Aha (streaming service) where the film premiered on 3 February 2023.

References 

2020s Telugu-language films
Indian drama films
2022 drama films
2022 films