| Director | Sharan Koppisetty |
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The film starts with the rape and attempted murder of Rani, a dancer, twenty years ago in a peculiar way with jasmine flowers in her hair. Her friend went to the police station to report this. But the police refused to take the case, as it was election time and they considered Rani to be collateral damage.
Currently, Sandhya works as a journalist on a TV channel. She is in love with Amar, who is two years younger than her and is from a different caste.
One day she learns that her report about a case to the TV channel was changed for the TRP. This upsets her. Her friend Bobby gave her the idea to start a podcast to give them freedom to investigate and expose true crime. So she quits her job to pursue her passion of exposing true crime with sensationalism.
One day Sandhya's family went to Amar's home for their engagement. When they returned from his home, she found that her friend had been brutally murdered in her flat with her boyfriend. After Sandhya's best friend dies, she investigates the case using her true crime podcast to expose the killer. She and the CI, Rajeev, collaborate on the investigation and bond. At first, she accuses the watchman, as his shoeprint was left behind and because he stole Bobby's necklace. But the real killer called her to confirm that the watchman is indeed not the killer and that he is going to kill another innocent woman.
She investigates similar murders from over twenty years earlier in the Godavari and Trichy districts after obtaining the case files via Rajeev's help.
When the surviving victims of the serial rapist and murderer do not show at a press conference, Sandhya's reputation suffers. Then two women enter the studio, and one of them reveals herself to be Rani.
However, the serial killer has already delivered on his promise, killing a girl named Asmi and her boyfriend. Sandhya, in the meantime, is taken as an unofficial consultant by the police investigation team led by a high-ranking officer named Ananditha with Rajeev in the team. Sandhya is convinced that Chinna Babu (a prominent politician who was from the same area as Rani) is the culprit, but his DNA does not match.
A victim's son tells her that because of her, his mother was reminded of her trauma. This destroys Sandhya's confidence, so she withdraws from the case, instead focusing on her engagement and marrying her partner, Amar. Later on, while hanging out with their friends at a bar, Amar's father calls to say that Amar's mother has died from a fatal fall.
Both Amar and Amar's father refuse an autopsy, raising Sandhya's suspicion. She is convinced that this is the work of the same killer, infuriating Amar, who tells her to leave the funeral. Sandhya discovers that her father-in-law is the serial murderer and rapist after her mother-in-law's murder. He killed her because she learnt of his crimes from a jewellery box filled with jewellery he collected from the bodies of his victims. She realised this because Amar's mother's Matryoshka doll contained two jewellery items that she took from her husband's box of jewellery. Sandhya's father-in-law unsuccessfully tries to kill her when she comes to his house in the guise of giving her mother's stew but is actually there to collect his DNA. In police custody, he reveals that his aunt raped him as a teen, and this aunt, when caught by her husband, accused the teen of assaulting her, which angered him, and he killed her and her husband. But the vengeance in him hadn't died, and so he became a rapist and murderer for vengeance and to quell his anger by hurting women who resembled his aunt.