| Director | Trivikram Srinivas |
|---|---|
| Genre | action film, comedy film, fantasy film |
| Runtime | 170 min |
| Country | India |
| Budget | ₹38 crore |
| Box office | ₹18.1 crore |
A remote village in Pali is struck by a mysterious plague that consumes many lives, leaving the villagers terrified and devastated. The village head prophesies a savior and sends his assistant, Siddha, in pursuit of him.
Elsewhere in Hyderabad, Raju, a taxi driver, is left with heavy damage to his taxi in an incident where his passengers are violently attacked and murdered. Consequently, his supervisor instructs him to deliver insurance money to one of the victim's families in Girduwala, Rajasthan and collect some of the money for repairing his taxi. While there, he meets Subhashini "Subbu", who escaped from her fiancé. After completing his task, Raju is stabbed in Girduwala while en route home and left to die. After he fends off goons sent by Subbu's fiancé's father GK to retrieve her, Raju is found by Siddha under circumstances described in the head's prophecy. Siddha rescues him and takes him and Subbu to Pali.
After recovering, Raju is shocked to find out that he is revered by the villagers as a deity and fails to convince them otherwise. Unable to bear the sudden popularity, he escapes with Subbu to Hyderabad and ends up confronting her father (who was provoked by GK to kill him); Raju bashes all of Subbu's father's goons and seemingly breaks up with her. Upon returning home, Raju is shocked to see Siddha waiting at his home. Initially apathetic towards their troubles, Raju offers to help Siddha and his fellow villagers. For this, he kidnaps the head doctor of the medical camp in Pali and the college dean who organized it and discerns that they were coerced by GK to clear the medical camp. He kidnaps GK's assistant Govardhan and learns about one of GK's factories polluting the water sources in Pali.
Raju zeroes on the assistant of Dr. Paranji, a geologist. She reveals that 7 months back, Dr. Paranji and she saw a statue in Girduwala during a religious procession, divulging it as Iridium with the assistance of a fellow villager and showed it to GK (who sponsored their research), disclosing its source as Pali. GK ordered Paranji to hide this, but he defied his orders, so GK had him and the villager killed. The insurance money was a ruse to kill Raju, as GK and Govardhan believed that Raju knew about Paranji's plans (since Paranji and the villager were Raju's passengers). GK later deliberately started polluting Pali's water and air to drive out its residents, and then mine out Iridium illegally; he also had cut off Pali's medical assistance to facilitate his plan and had his son's marriage fixed with Subbu to gain access to her father's sugarcane farm, to create plastic using sugarcane to store Iridium as part of a business deal with her father.
GK kills Govardhan and Paranji's assistant for disclosing his plans to Raju, and orders to have the village massacred; he confronts the village head and reveals his intentions to him, as he prophesies that the population of the village will stay as 534 and that he will meet his demise in the hands of Raju. When Raju arrives with Siddha, GK boasts about his plans to him and kills Siddha to disprove the prophecy. As GK approaches to kill Raju, he amputates his hand in a fury and kills his goons in a fury. GK wanders off panicking, with Raju pursuing and taunting him, and meets his demise as prophesized, ending the village's calamity. As Raju watches in disbelief, the village head brings a baby born at the time of Siddha's death, thereby making the population stay at 534. A flag is later installed at the temple area with other flags, which indicate the number of people alive in the village.