Satyabhama (2024 film)

Satyabhama is a 2024 Indian Telugu-language crime thriller film directed by Suman Chikkala and produced by Sashi Kiran Tikka, Bobby Tikka, and Srinivas Rao Takkalapelly. The film stars Kajal Aggarwal as the titular character along with Naveen Chandra, Prakash Raj, Nagineedu, Harsha Vardhan, and Ravi Varma. The music is composed by Sricharan Pakala^[3][4] with cinematography by Vishnu Besi and editing by Kodati Pavan Kalyan. The film released on 7 June 2024. It received negative reviews and became a box office bomb.^[5]

Satya Bhama (Kajal Aggarwal) is a police officer in Hyderabad. She leads a SHE Team in her department that focuses on women's safety in the city. She is so dedicated to her job duty that she even keeps working on her wedding day. On that day a woman named Hasseena (Neha Pathan) goes to Satya's station to file a complaint against her abusive ex-husband Yedhu. After listening to Hasseena's story, Satya warns Yedhu on a phone call to stay away from Hasseena. That night, Yedhu, enraged by Hasseena's effort to involve police and provoked by Hasseena's warning, assaults Hasseena. Satya arrives to intervene but fails to save Hasseena, as Yedhu kills her right in front of Satya and then escapes.

Hasseena's death makes her younger brother Iqbal (Prajwal Yadma) hate Satya, as he believes Satya provoked Yedhu then failed to protect Hasseena. Satya has since also felt guilty. She tries to financially support Hasseena's family, but Iqbal refuses. After some time, the department has given up on the searching for Yedhu, but Satya, who still can't get over the feeling of guilt, continue her search unofficially.

One day, Hasseena and Iqbal's father complains at Satya's station that Iqbal is missing. Satya takes over the case. Via CCTV footage, Satya sees that Iqbal's last appearance is in a car registered under Rishi's (Ankith Koyya) name. Rishi is Iqbal's close friend Divya's (Sampatha) boyfriend and had some grudge with Iqbal. Police arrests Rishi for investigation. Rish, after initial refusal to cooperate, tells the police what happened: in a video game he has been playing, he was approached by a girl named Neha, who later disappeared. Later a man named Vijay also approached him in the game and claimed to be an undercover police from Anti-Terrorism Squad. Vijay claimed that both Neha and Iqbal are terrorists and asked Rishi's help to nab Iqbal. Under Vijay's instruction, Rishi kidnapped Iqbal and dropped him at a given remote location.

Police head to the location where Rishi claims he dropped Iqbal and do find injured Iqbal lying unconscious. From the chatting history in the video game, police also find supporting contents matching Rishs's story, but they cannot find any police officer matching the user profile of Vijay, nor can they find any terrorist on watchlist that matches Neha's profile. However, they start a search for the two.

Police later find Neha and Vijay. Neha;s real name is Maya and turns out to be one of Yedhu's ex-girlfriends. Vijay turns out to be Iqbal's uncled Riaz. The both deny any knowledge of Iqbal's case. Due to lack of evidence, police release the two and then following them. Riaz later turns out to be a human trafficker, but even under arrest, he still denies any involvement in Iqbal's kidnapping.

Satya's informant finds Yedhu, so Satya visits the spot to arrest him, only to find that Yedhu has been paralyzed. After connecting all known clues, Satya has now understood the whole story and heads to Iqbal's place to arrest him.

It is revealed that Iqbal is the one who posed as both Neha and Vijay in the game to approach Rishi. He specifically chose the identity of Maya and Riaz because he knew Yedhu cheated on his sister Hasseena with Maya and that Riaz is a human trafficker. Iqbal's plan was to kill Rishi after he would drop him off, because he feared that Rishi would take away Divya from her. But the plan failed as he was accidentally injured. Iqbal has also tracked down Yedhu by himself. He approached Yedhu and knocked him down. He later pretended to be a doctor to treat Yedhu, only to keep giving him injections that slowly paralyzed him.

The movie ends with police arresting Iqbal.

• Kajal Aggarwal as Satyabhama "Satya" IPS
• Naveen Chandra as Amarendar
• Prakash Raj as Joseph Raj IPS
• Nagineedu as Narayana Das
• Harsha Vardhan as Anand Rao
• Ravi Varma as MP K. Ramakanth Reddy
• Neha Pathan as Haseena
• Prajwal Yadma as Iqbal
• Sampatha as Divya
• Ankith Koyya as Rishi Reddy
• Anirudh Pavithran as Yedhu
• Payal Radhakrishna as Maya/Neha

Satyabhama was released on Amazon Prime Video on 28 June 2024, and it was also released on Lionsgate Play on 21 March 2025.^[6]

The soundtrack and background score of the film was composed by Sricharan Pakala.^[7] The audio rights of the film were acquired by Aditya Music.

• Satyabhama at IMDb