Evaru 2019

Sameera Maha Sameera Maha is a sharp, driven businesswoman who triggers a chain of violent consequences when she fatally shoots DSP Ashok Krishna at a resort, claiming it was self-defense after a terrifying encounter. The act immediately sets off a high-stakes legal battle: the police and Ashok’s family push for prosecution, while a seasoned criminal lawyer Ratnakar leads the charge on the other side. In this tense tug-of-war, Sameera’s defense hinges on the strategic moves of her new associate, the lawyer Banerjee, whose plan hinges on uncovering every possible angle to cast doubt on the case.

Banerjee reaches out to a corrupt Sub-Inspector, Vikram Vasudev, a calculating officer stationed in Coonoor, and enlists his help to suppress potentially damaging evidence. Vikram’s method is as morally gray as the case itself: he accepts a bribe to shape the trajectory of the investigation, aiming to shield Sameera, while also hoping to keep Ratnakar from building a robust dossier against her. The arrangement immediately raises questions about the integrity of the legal process, and Vikram’s dual role as investigator and participant in the scheme becomes a central thread of the narrative.

In a hotel room, Vikram presses Sameera to disclose every detail of the night in question, pushing past her initial story to test its limits. As she recounts, a key turn emerges: Vikram presents what he believes to be compelling corroboration that challenges her account. He reveals personal and social dynamics that reframes her situation, including the revelation that her husband, Rahul Maha, a prominent CEO, is living a double life—hinting that Sameera’s marriage is a carefully constructed façade. The implication is that Sameera’s relationship with Ashok was complicated by power, status, and secrets from the past. With this new context, Sameera confesses that she entered the relationship with Ashok while maintaining a different life on the side, and the two had rekindled their connection during college years before it intensified.

As Vikram narrows the frame, he tells Sameera about a separate, deeply painful missing persons investigation that he has been involved with for over a year: Adarsh Varma, a teenage cancer patient, had filed a missing-person report for his father, Vinay. The case had appeared to stall under pressure from above, but Vikram persists, following a trail that suggests Vinay’s life and the resort he owns are tied to more than a simple disappearance. Adarsh, who has fought through illness, becomes a central figure as he continues to gather clues, aided by his mother’s steadfast faith in finding the truth.

The detective’s inquiry leads him deeper into a tangled web: Vinay Vinay, a man connected to the resort and its surrounding networks, repeatedly receives calls from a police station in Panjagutta, and his car bears the marks of a confrontation outside the resort. Adarsh and his mother reveal a crucial lead about a girl named Vaishnavi, who was given a lift by Vinay and was later seen at a pivotal moment before Vinay vanished. The name Vaishnavi becomes a cipher that connects past encounters to the present case, and Sameera’s former ties to that identity begin to appear in a new light. The woman identified as Vaishnavi turns out to be the same person linked to Sameera in a way that underscores how past affiliations and contemporary motives intersect in this investigation. Vaishnavi

As the story unfolds, Ashok’s actions during the night in question come into sharper relief. He confronts Vinay at a hairpin bend near the resort, a confrontation that ends with Vinay being gravely injured and later killed in a sequence that Soon reveals a planned murder rather than an impulsive act. Sameera’s involvement becomes more ambiguous as the truth about the sequence of events takes shape: she helped to shield herself and Ashok from the consequences of Vinay’s death, and she orchestrated moments to ensure her alibi and public image remained intact. The layers of deceit deepen as Vikram discovers a connection between Ashok’s planned confession and the night’s events, a link that he believes could topple the case against Sameera.

With evidence mounting, Sameera makes a bold move, attempting to broker a deal with Vikram: she offers a two-crore payoff to remove Vinay’s body from the site and frame Ashok for Vinay’s death, thereby destroying the case against her in court and making Ratnakar’s evidence vanish. She leverages the fear of exposure to force Vikram’s cooperation, threatening to reveal the bribery he accepted and to weaponize the pressure he faces from his superiors. Vikram agrees to keep the plan in motion, but in a cunning twist, he keeps a microphone concealed in the room to capture Sameera’s own admission and confession to the murder of both Vinay and Ashok.

The confession becomes a pivotal moment, and when the room fills with the sound of truth, Sameera tries to turn the tide by raising her weapon against Vikram. The arrival of the police interrupts this, and she is arrested for the double murder. As Vikram exits the scene, the reality of the deception sinks in: the lead officer who has just left is revealed to be Vikram Vasudev, the man who orchestrated the entrapment. The revelation reframes the entire sequence of events, casting his role in a different light and leaving the audience with a mix of doubt and awe at how the pieces fit together.

In a final, shocking twist, it is disclosed that the officer who supervised the evidence and the confession was, in fact, Adarsh Varma in disguise. He had originally brought the missing-person case to the real Vikram and had been tracking Sameera for more than a year as he recovered from cancer, building a case against her and gathering proof to settle the matter on his own terms. The true test of justice arrives as Adarsh confronts the people involved and leads his mother to the site where Vinay’s body was buried, closing a circle that began with the boy’s illness and the father’s disappearance. The film closes on a note of careful, earned truth, with justice pursuing its own uneven path through a maze of ambition, deceit, and sacrifice.