Saakshyam (2018)

Saakshyam
DirectorSriwass
Box office₹22.7 crore

Plot

A mob attempts to seize a cow and her calf, and several people try to pursue them. Meanwhile, at Raju Garu’s home, the family is assembled for his son’s naming ceremony. Suddenly, the same people from the mob arrive and reveal that Munuswamy’s brothers have abducted the mother cow—one that belonged to the temple—along with many others. Incensed, Raju Garu confronts Munuswamy’s brother, rescues the cattle, and returns them home.

The news of his brothers' humiliation reaches Munuswamy, and he and his three brothers go to Raju Garu's house, where the celebration is going on. They brutally kill every member of the family, except for Raju Garu's wife, who is injured. Raju Garu manages to distract the brothers while his wife runs away with the child, but she becomes weak and is unable to continue due to her deep injuries. Just then, the calf whose mother was saved by Raju Garu comes and stands in front of his wife. She takes this as a sign, wraps the child in a shawl, and ties him onto the calf. Munuswamy and his brothers arrive just in time to see the calf running away, Munuswamy's second brother slit Raju Guru's Wife's throat to death and a chase ensues. The injured calf manages to evade Munuswamy and land the baby on a truck carrying soil. The villains see the child falling down the cliff and believe him to be dead. In order to conceal their crime, they set fire to the cowshed, because of the belief that even animals can become a witness to their sins.

The story then goes into a narration where the narrator explains that even though Munuswamy is happy that he has destroyed every witness to his crime, he has forgotten that the five elements of nature that are present everywhere have witnessed his crimes and will surely do justice for his atrocities.

Meanwhile, the child is carried to a soil mine, where the truck dumps him along with the soil. A Hindu saint sees the child, takes him to Kasi, and leaves him in a temple. A childless couple, Siva Prasad and his wife, are there to pray for a child and are overwhelmed to see him. The temple priest names him Viswaagna because it is nature's order for them to raise the child. Later, the couple leaves for the United States with the child.

20 years later, Siva Prasad and his wife are shown to be celebrating the success of their company. A reporter asks about their son Viswa, who would be taking over the multibillion-dollar empire, but Siva Prasad states that Viswa is not interested in taking over the business as he is interested in developing games. Viswa and his friend are shown to be in the process of developing a new video game, which they are sending to a company to be released.

Unfortunately, their game is rejected due to a lack of culture. Viswa and his friend run into a girl named Soundarya Lahari, a Hindu spiritual preacher who came to the US to preach on Indian mythology. Viswa is instantly smitten, so he and his friend follow her to get her help in adding cultural elements to their game. However, Soundarya is offended by their offer of money and says flatly that culture is not something to be sold. Viswa and his friend help Soundarya's sister and brother-in-law secure jobs using his influence, which leads to Soundarya reluctantly agreeing to help Viswa.

She introduces the group to Valmiki, her childhood friend and an IT professional who has an interest in Indian mythology. He helps by giving them a unique idea for a game which resembles Viswa's life story, about a boy whose entire family was killed by villains and the five elements of nature taking revenge on the villains through the boy. Viswa is impressed by Valmiki's idea and hires him to develop the game.

Soundarya simultaneously leaves for India to see her father Tagore, who is bedridden because of Munuswamy's gang after fighting against them in court. Viswa follows her to India and starts developing the video game there.

Meanwhile, Munuswamy is ordered to kill Soundarya as a warning to Tagore. Later, in multiple scenarios, Soundarya is saved by Viswa from Veeraswamy, Munuswamy's first brother. Viswa eventually kills Veeraswamy by using the elements of air and earth, and is shocked to discover that the events of his video game are playing out in real life. When he goes to Kashi, to give salutations from his mother's side to Kashi Vishwanath temple, he accidentally meets the second brother of Munuswamy, who he kills using the element of fire. Viswa tries his best to stop it, but fails. Meanwhile, Munuswamy is on the search for his brothers' killer.

Soundarya begins to reciprocate Viswa's love because of his efforts to save her from Munuswamy's brother and agrees to marry him. Meanwhile, Valmiki designs the full game and comes back to India and meets his grandfather who is practicing Vedic astrology and was both looking for the bad omens of Munuswamy and his brothers and fixing the marriage dates of Viswa and Soundarya.

After hearing Valmiki's game concept, Valmiki's grandfather understands that this is the vengeance against Munuswamy and his brothers by Mother Nature because of their sins against Viswa's biological family. He remembers that in front of young Valmiki, a younger Munuswamy and his brothers criticized the astrologer and denies God to live on their own terms. He reveals to Valmiki that this screenplay was written by Mother Nature through him. She witnessed all the incidents and selected him to design the situation they are in, and it cannot be stopped by anyone.

Meanwhile, Viswa's business rival, Shakti, joins hands with Munuswamy to take over his major stakes in India and abducts Viswa, threatening him to give them the shares documents. Viswa comes to a deal with them and all the elements take revenge on Shakti and Munuswamy's gang through Viswa as witnessed by the Sky.

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