Veedevadu

The story begins at a boathouse in Goa. Sathya kills his wife Shruthi, and the Goan police later arrests him. In the court, all the witnesses and evidence are against Sathya, but the court sends him to judicial remand for fourteen days and asks the police to submit primary evidence. The Hyderabad commissioner appoints ACP Prakash Varma, an encounter specialist, to deal the case. Prakash is very strict and ruthless in his department, and everyone calls him a psycho. He joins the investigation with his new subordinate Hyder and starts the investigation. First, the duo meets Shruthi's friend Gouthami, a house surgeon and her colleague, who narrates their encounters earlier. Shruthi and Gouthami met Sathya at a 10K run. After some comical circumstances, Shruthi and Sathya fall in love, but Gouthami suspects Sathya and confronts him for his weird behavior. Then, he admits that he wooed Shruthi to get her property. Enraged, Gouthami informs this to her father Jagannath. After having a private talk, to her shock, he accepts their relationship, and Shruthi and Sathya later get married. After knowing the facts, Shruthi avoided Gowthami. Now Gouthami requests the police to encounter Sathya.

After hearing the facts, Prakash later meets Sathya's best friend Srinu. There, he admits that being a topper in MBA and a Andhra Pradesh team state captain in kabaddi, he starts to act weird after his arrest. Srinu reveals that in a state-level kabaddi match, Sathya accidentally kills Peter D'Souza, the captain of the Goa Kabaddi team, and gets arrested by the police. In the investigation, it was ascertained that Peter is an asthma patient, did not reveal his health record, and played the game regardless. That was the main cause of his death, which proved Sathya innocent, and released him. Soon, Srinu got a job in Dubai. Then Sathya, who is in a middle-class status like him, supports financially by explaining everything to him whenever it is necessary and sends him off to Dubai. Later, Srinu tried to reach Sathya several times but no avail. After hearing this news, he came to Goa to meet him. Prakash records all the statements and confirms that they are true. Then, he discovers that Sathya had been transferred to Goa jail for special investigation. There, Sathya receives the deadliest welcome by corrupt jailor Albert D'Souza, who is the elder brother of Peter and swears vengeance on him. Then, he becomes friends with the other inmates and "Selfie" Kishore, a sub-jailor who has a soft corner on the innocent convicts. Albert tries to kill Sathya to avenge his brother's death, so he forces him to play kabaddi with his prescribed team by bashing his inmates. Then, Sathya accepts and forms a team by giving confidence to his inmates. Finally in the match, Sathya wins the game. Meanwhile, Prakash starts the investigation. In the murder place, he founds a severed hand wearing Shruthi's engagement ring. Then, a forensic report reveals that it was not Shruthi's hand but Sathya's fingerprints found on that hand. Then, in the interrogation room Sathya reveals that the hand was from a woman named Catherine, who was Shruthi's lookalike.

The film was first reported in May 2015, when it was reported that Telugu director Tatineni Satya would make a bilingual Telugu and Tamil film with Sachiin J. Joshi and Esha Gupta in the lead roles, revolving around a kabaddi player who is sentenced to jail after being accused of murdering his girlfriend.[1] Despite the announcement, the film only began a year later in May 2016, with the team shooting a song in Poland soon after.[2] Titled Yaar Ivan in Tamil and Veedevadu in Telugu, production was completed in December 2016.[3]

Prior to the release of the film's first look in Tamil, the team kept the identity of the lead actor a secret and endorsed a competition where the public could attempt to guess the lead star to win a trip to Goa.

The soundtrack was composed by S. Thaman.

Telugu tracklist

• "Ela Ela" -
• "Ninne Nenu" -
• "Ka Ka Ka Kaakulu" -
• "Saregama" -
• "Susheela" -

Tamil version

Times of India wrote "There is the potential for a good masala noir in the premise of Yaar Ivan, but the film wants to be much more. [..] But the problem is that these elements aren’t brought together into a wholly satisfying narrative."[5]

Telugu version

Telangana Today wrote that "Overall, ‘Veedevadu’ is a watch-worthy thriller".[6] New Indian Express wrote that "Veedevadu is a film that could’ve been much better if it wasn’t for all the unnecessary and counterproductive padding".[7]

• Veedevadu at IMDb