| Director | Ravikanth Perepu |
|---|---|
| Genre | thriller film |
| Country | India |
| Budget | ₹1.1 crore |
| Box office | ₹12 crore |
Rishi, a San Francisco-based investment banker, receives a phone call from his ex-girlfriend Swetha after a long separation. The two had studied medicine together and wished to marry, but Swetha's father instead arranged her marriage to an entrepreneur named Karthik. Still harboring feelings for her, Rishi travels to India under the guise of attending a family wedding. He rents a car through a travel agent, Babu Khan, secures a local SIM card, and checks into a hotel. Meeting Swetha at a restaurant, Rishi learns that her five-year-old daughter, Riya, has been kidnapped. Swetha desperately laments that no one—including her husband Karthik—believes Riya actually exists. She also warns him about Karthik's drug-addicted brother, Bobby, who frequently loiters around her house.
Rishi launches an informal investigation, which repeatedly falters and draws the hostility of local gangsters. Babu, who assists the gangsters in transporting narcotics, intervenes to save Rishi on humanitarian grounds. Posing as a police officer named Vasanth Khanna, Rishi confronts Karthik, who insists that he and Swetha are childless. Karthik explains that Swetha was previously assaulted by two masked carjackers outside a school, fell into a coma, and woke up suffering from a delusion that she had a five-year-old daughter. Rishi obtains CCTV footage of the attack, but Riya is nowhere to be seen in the video, prompting him to doubt Swetha's sanity.
When Rishi confronts Swetha, she fiercely denies that Riya is imaginary. While Rishi notices height markings of a child drawn on a wall and realizes that Riya exists, a distraught Swetha suddenly commits suicide in front of him. ACP Jaya and Inspector Ravi Chowdary take over the investigation. Soon after, the real officer Khanna is murdered at Rishi's hotel, and Babu confesses to Rishi that he witnessed Bobby kidnapping Riya. Armed with this lead, Rishi gets Bobby arrested, but Bobby is shot dead in custody by Jaya, who claims self-defense. That night, Khanna's killers ambush Rishi and Babu; Babu manages to shoot the attackers dead but dies in the gunfight. On one of the deceased assassins' phones, Rishi discovers an MMS from Jaya ordering his execution.
Rishi tracks Jaya to her secluded farmhouse, where he finds Riya alive. Jaya reveals that Karthik had ordered the original hit on Swetha to kill Riya, but Jaya intercepted the child from Bobby's custody. Having lost her own husband and unborn child in a car crash, the grieving Jaya resolved to raise Riya as her own. She struck a deal with Karthik: in exchange for keeping the child, she helped Karthik systematically gaslight Swetha. Karthik convinced his social circle to pretend Riya never existed, driving Swetha to madness.
Before Jaya can execute Rishi, Inspector Chowdary, who was listening to the confession while en route, arrives with his unit and shoots Jaya dead. Karthik is arrested and confesses that Riya could not be his daughter, as medical tests had previously confirmed his sterility. Rishi recalls his final meeting with Sweta years prior, when she visited him to deliver her wedding invitation and they slept together. Realizing that Riya is his own biological daughter, Rishi approaches the young girl as a vision of Sweta smiles back at him.