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Aditya is a known name in the police; he has been decorated for the cases he solved and is still serving. A murder is committed in the city and then a letter arrives: the killer says in advance whom he will kill and when, and targets the police directly. Aditya takes the file. The murders proceed in a set order and each carries a message. Who the killer is is disclosed in the middle of the narrative; the rest is built on what the reason is. Mohana Krishna Indraganti directs. Nani plays the killer and Sudheer Babu the policeman; Nivetha Thomas and Aditi Rao Hydari are in the cast. It is in Telugu. The film was promoted as the first in which Nani appears in a negative part, and that stood at the centre of the publicity. It was not shown in cinemas; because of the epidemic it went straight to a streaming platform and was among the first large Telugu films to do so. The structure is a two hander; the policeman and the killer make moves against each other and the film presents it as a game. The flashback explaining the killer's reason is its longest section. Its limit is the script; some connections rest on coincidence and the women's parts are functional. Who it is for: viewers who like Telugu crime films and Nani. Who it is not for: the plot is contrived, the pace uneven, and the ending can be guessed.