| Director | Surender Reddy |
|---|---|
| Genre | action thriller |
| Runtime | 165 min |
| Country | India |
| Budget | $7.4 million |
In 1980, Chengalarayudu, a dedicated low-level party member, is dedicated to his cunning regional leader and his party to the extent that he is working for a party meeting when his wife goes into labor. The leader accidentally comes to the area of his house and lends his car to take Chengalarayudu's wife to the labor ward, but the delivery happens safely inside the car. By 1995, their son Venkanna tops his state exams but witnesses his party leader murder a rebel. Venkanna takes the blame and goes to juvenile prison, securing an MLA seat for his father. He also made it seem like he killed him.
By 2016, Dhruva, a trainee IPS officer, and his friends helped catch a kidnapping gang. Dhruva's girlfriend, Ishika, learns about their secret activities. They witness the murder of a social activist, Ramarao, leading Dhruva to uncover a hidden crime network led by scientist Siddharth Abhimanyu, who is actually Venkanna.
Now an ASP, Dhruva discovers Siddharth's illegal medical operations and confronts him. Siddharth's father, now a Health Minister in the minority government headed by the party leader, who is now the CM of Andhra Pradesh, supports Siddharth's unethical practices. Dhruva discovers that Angelina, a Swiss pharmaceutical company owner and an activist, is going to be assassinated on the 3rd of October, and he decides to prevent it by arresting Dheeraj Chandra, Irfan Ali, and Jayanth Suri, as well as making generic medicines for life-threatening diseases available in India at a low cost. He even places Ishika as a body double for Angelina, thus stopping the first attempt. But it later backfires when Dhruva and his co-officer are shot, and Angelina is killed by an assassin in a disguise. The assassin is later killed by Abbas, Irfan's brother.
While Dhruva is recovering from the gunshot wound in the hospital, an electronic bug (GPS + audio transmitter) is implanted inside his chest during another surgery by Siddharth. Through the bug, Siddharth listens to all of Dhruva's plans and continuously monitors his whereabouts and conversations via audio transmission. Dhruva receives evidence against Siddharth from Akshara, a scientist killed for opposing Siddharth. Dhruva's friend Gautham is killed while retrieving the hospitalized evidence. However, Dhruva becomes frantic after the blaring of the now-ordered detector doesn't stop, hence searching for the bug in his house. Ishika arrives there but gets awestruck after being scolded by him, even telling him she is about to meet Preethi, making Siddharth believe that Preethi has cheated on him, and hence decides to kill her as well as Ishika.
Dhruva, later discovering that the bug was planted during another surgery, calls Ishika to prevent her from meeting Preethi, although both of them indicate that they're pretending to each other because of Siddharth. Siddharth's plans of killing Ishika and Preethi get cancelled due to this. After the bug on his chest is removed via another surgery, he kidnaps Abbas, gets the SD card, records his statement, and drugs him as payback for Gautham, thus misguiding Siddharth and manipulating the latter into killing him, while Dhruva gathers proof and confronts the corrupt CM. Meanwhile, Ishika meets Preethi and reveals Siddharth's plans and agenda, leading Preethi to swap the file of speech. After learning about the file-swapping, Chengalarayudu fakes a stroke to escape pressure; the ruling party forces Chengalarayudu either to resign within 24 hours or he will be dismissed. Dhruva appeals to the CM that he has evidence and wants to arrest Siddharth, and is granted permission to do so. Hence, Siddharth kills his father using his goons' wounds in an accident and forces the CM to stop actions against him, or he will claim that the CM killed his father for personal vengeance. But the next day, at his father's state funeral, Dhruva arrests him on the CM's orders.
When Siddharth is arrested, he is tricked into confessing, and Dhruva's team brings down his entire crime network. Dhruva also tells him that the medicine was patented in Akshara's name (despite Siddharth being the inventor) and will be made as a generic medicine instead of a patent-protected one. It is also revealed that Chengalarayudu is still alive, saved by Dhruva and his gang, and the public funeral held was for Gautham. Dhruva makes a deal that he would save Siddharth's life for information and evidence on all of his criminal associates and activities, and gives him a bulletproof vest to fake his death during his transport to the court. They also citizens Dhruva, plan to take down the setup planned by various VIPs to kill Siddharth when one of them gets close to Siddharth. An enraged Dhruva attacks him and notices that Siddharth did not wear the vest, and is fatally shot by Preethi. Before dying, he tells Dhruva that he hid all the evidence in an SD card in the bulletproof vest.