Evaru

Businesswoman Sameera Maha kills DSP Ashok Krishna at a resort. Sameera accuses him of rape, and please self-defense. Ashok’s family hire Ratnakar, a prestigious criminal lawyer as the prosecutor. Sameera’s lawyer Banerjee contacts Vikram Vasudev, Sub-Inspector of Coonoor and bribes him to ensure Ratnakar does not find any incriminating evidence.

Vikram meets Sameera in a hotel room and forces her to reveal the truth so that he can help her. She argues Ashok forced himself on her but Vikram presents evidence that her husband, CEO Rahul Maha, is a homosexual and that she attended college with Ashok. Sameera admits she is only a beard to Rahul, to help him maintain a heterosexual image. She and Ashok dated in college but separated because his parents did not approve her middle-class background. However, two years earlier, they met again by chance and started their affair.

Vikram goes on to describe a missing persons case he is investigating. A year earlier, teenage cancer patient Adarsh Varma filed a case that his father Vinay was missing. Vikram prioritized the case after Adarsh bribed him and continued despite pressure from superiors to abandon it. He discovered Vinay got frequent calls from the Panjagutta Police Station, and that his damaged car was found outside a building at his resort. On the night Vinay disappeared, Adarsh and his mother gave a lift to a girl named Vaishnavi but she vanished when they reached home.

Following Vinay’s last photo to a hairpin turn in Coonoor, Vikram found a broken side-view mirror from a black car. The car was traced to a rental agency in Hyderabad and rented in the name of Vaishnavi Krishna by her husband Ashok, an officer posted at Panjagutta Police Station. Vikram later learned Adarsh had snuck into a Hyderabad event where Ashok was on duty to confront him. Ashok inadvertently confirmed he knew Vinay and nearly shot Adarsh before Vikram intervened. As they left, Adarsh noticed the honored guest, “Vaishnavi,” who was actually Sameera.

Sameera denies involvement but Vikram reveals her old cellphone was found in the forest with Vinay’s blood, linking her and Ashok to the crime. Sameera confesses that while driving to Coonoor for a rendezvous, she accidentally struck Vinay near the hairpin turn. Ashok who was drunk assaulted Vinay until Sameera intervened. They later encountered him again at a resort building Ashok planned to buy. Vinay refused to sell and revealed he was a family friend of Rahul who knew Sameera was his fiancée, warning her to end the affair. Enraged, Ashok punched Vinay, sending him over a fence and into the forest below. Finding Vinay barely alive, Ashok stopped Sameera from calling an ambulance and killed him. As Ashok disposed of the body, Sameera fled the forest and hitchhiked with a woman and her cancer-stricken son. She realized they were Vinay’s family after discovering she had taken Vinay’s phone by mistake. Leaving the phone in their car, she fled, later reuniting with Ashok before they left Coonoor.

A year later, an anonymous blackmailer demanded ₹2 crore from Sameera and Ashok at Vinay’s resort. The couple planned to confess to Vinay’s family together, but while they were having sex, Ashok attempted to kill Sameera to save himself. She fought back and killed him. Vikram challenges her account, highlighting inconsistencies and arguing that Sameera had more to gain from Vinay’s death. He reveals he was the blackmailer and that Ashok intended to confess, having called Vikram beforehand and kept the phone in his pocket. When Ashok told Sameera of his plan, she killed him and staged the scene to resemble rape. Desperate, Sameera offers Vikram two crores to remove Vinay’s body and pin his murder on Ashok, threatening to expose Vikram’s corruption if he refuses.

Sameera reveals that she has pushed Vinay down from a lookout point, after she found him alive and on the run, she tracked him down near a highway and murdered him, then buried him at a construction site bordering a religious place before hitching a ride with Vinay's family. In shock from her confession, Vikram reveals there is a microphone hidden in the room to record her activities, as Sameera begins to pull out a gun and police arrive to arrest her for murdering both Vinay as well as Ashok. Sameera then accuses Vikram of being involved in corrupt activities, but the lead officer states that he is the actual Vikram Vasudev, and that the same officer that obtained the confession was Adarsh Varma.

Adarsh had first suspected Sameera after seeing her picture in a magazine labeled as “Vaishnavi”. After Vikram stopped pursuing the case, Adarsh used his time over the next year recovering from cancer to gather evidence. Following Ashok's murder, Adarsh persuaded Vikram to allow him to impersonate the police officer who collected Sameera's confession. In the final scene, Adarsh and his mother are shown at the construction site, where they found the body of Vinay.

• Adivi Sesh as Sub inspector Vikram Vasudev / Adarsh Varma
• Regina Cassandra as Sameera 'Sam' Maha
• Naveen Chandra as DSP Ashok Krishna IPS
• Murali Sharma as Vinay Varma
• Nihal Kodhaty as Adarsh Varma
• Pavitra Lokesh as Adarsh Varma's mother
• Raja Ravindra as Inspector Suresh
• Sanjay Raichur as Ratnakar
• Vinay Varma as Banerjee, Sameera's lawyer
• Syed Irfan Ahmed as Rahul Maha, Sameera's husband
• Shwetha Verma as Vaishnavi Krishna
• Pammi Sai as Constable Reddy
• Sasidhar as Sub inspector Vikram Vasudev

The film was shot in Hyderabad and Kodaikanal. The last schedule of the film was wrapped up in July 2019.^[11]

The music of the film is composed by Sricharan Pakala while lyrics are by V N V Ramesh Kumar.

• Badla, Hindi-language adaptation of The Invisible Guest