Thammudu (Hindi)
2h 31m
July 4, 2025
Thammudu is a 2025 Indian Telugu-language survival action drama film written and directed by Venu Sriram and produced by Dil Raju through Sri Venkateswara Creations. The film stars Nithiin, Laya, Sapthami Gowda, and Varsha Bollamma in the lead roles,while Saurabh Sachdeva and Swasika play supporting roles. B. Ajaneesh Loknath composed the soundtrack and score, while K. V. Guhan, Sameer Reddy and Satyajit Pande handled the cinematography, with Prawin Pudi handling the editing.
Shot extensively in Visakhapatnam and Maredumilli of Andhra Pradesh, the film was released on 4 July 2025. The film received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb. It was released on Netflix on 1 August 2025.
Plot
This film starts with Jai, a skilled archer who aims to get a gold medal in the upcoming 2025 Archery World Cup, but his coach has been dissatisfied with his performance in practice sessions and encourages him to find a solution regarding his situation. Later, with the encouragement of Chitra, an entrepreneur as well as his best friend and only constant support, Jai gets to realize his emotional trauma of being separated from his elder sister, Snehalata, who has a motherly bond with him, during childhood. 20 years ago, Snehalata, a woman of her word, loved a man and promised to marry him, but her father opposed her decision. With no other option left to keep her promise, she decided to elope with her lover and sent the plan in a letter through her brother, the young Jai. But when Jai is about to go out, his father notices the letter. Jai’s father fears that his son will give the letter to him, and he becomes angry and marries her off to another person. After the marriage, Snehalata got to know that her lover had committed suicide for not marrying her, and she became angry at her father and later disowned them.
Jai and Chitra trace her to Hyderabad and finds out that she became an IAS and changed her identity to Jhansi Kiranmayi. Jhansi is now a principled government officer who refuses to sign off on a falsified report related to a chemical factory explosion in Vizag, and she promises herself to get justice for the victims in the blast. Her decision places her and her family in danger from a powerful and corrupt industrialist, Agarwal, who has phonophobia and he cannot bear to hear any sound more than 20 decibels.
A tribal festival called “Pagadalamma Jatara” comes once every 12 years in the remote Ambaragodugu forest region near the Andhra–Chhattisgarh border. It is a lawless land and well known for ruthless decoits, where Jhansi and her family take the Darshan. There, Agarwal orchestrates a violent attack on Jhansi’s family. Jai, in search of his sister, reaches the location and reunites with her. As the night unfolds, he takes on the responsibility of defending his sister and her loved ones against multiple waves of assaults. Utilizing his archery skills and driven by a desire for redemption and familial love, Jai confronts the attackers in a survival battle that tests his endurance and moral resolve. In the route they are trying to cross Ambaragodugu; thereafter, after talking with Jhansi, Chitra and Jai understand that Jhansi had lost her word once, and she considers it as her new life. Jhansi declares that she is not Snehalata anymore: she considers her past as a dead person. Getting respect for her thoughts, the duo decides not to reveal their identity to her. Jai decides to protect Jhansi and her family, and the duo starts guarding them from the threats of Agarwal.
Meanwhile, Francis, a subordinate to Agarwal, had several failed attempts to kill Jhansi and her family, and then Agarwal announced a bounty of Rs.1 crore to the villages of Ambaragodugu for killing them. To escape from them, Jai tries to contact the emergency numbers in the forest region. There, he reaches out to an emergency call center girl called Ratna. The center is run by an NGO, and she helps in the emergency situations for the customers through the calls. Being a kindhearted woman, she decides to guide them out of the Ambaragodugu forest. There, she suggests taking help from Gutti, a ferocious but greedy woman, to escape from the forest.
Unaware of the facts, Gutti decides to help them and takes it as an opportunity to loot them. Meanwhile there they face Murugan, the head of the dacoits in the forest, who responded to the bounty and tries violently to kill them all and damages the Gutti’s vehicle, and the family leaves the vehicle. At the same time, one of Jhansi’s sisters-in-law suffers a labor pain on the route, and then with a hard struggle, Jai saves them from Murugan, and she gives birth to a baby girl through the help of Jhansi, Chitra, Jhansi’s only child Divya, and Ratna through a call. Later, with the gratitude of the family, she asks Ratna to suggest a name for the baby girl, and she names her Chamundeswari and gets a silent admiration from Jai.
Later, the family successfully escapes from Murugan’s men through a boat in a lake. After crossing the lake, Jhansi realizes that Divya has been missing in the frenzy. Jai decides to come back looking for his niece and gives the responsibility to Chitra to save them till the border. Then, it is revealed that Divya is stuck in a hollow used for hunting deer. Murugan finds her and is about to kill her, but Jai comes to her rescue, protects his niece, bashes Murugan, and escapes. Meanwhile, knowing about the bounty, Gutti makes a deal with Francis to kill them all by herself and give a tip about Ratna to him; if they stop her, they can easily catch Jhansi and her family. Later, she reaches them by believing them into a rescue and spots them in a den. There, Chitra fights with Gutti; in a hard struggle, Chitra manages to kill Gutti but she was mortally injured during the fight, eventually succumbs to her own wounds and dies in Jai’s arms after declaring that her life’s purpose has been fulfilled by dying for him and it is revealed that Jai had protected her from an abusive childhood at the age of seven. From then on, Chitra became an obedient and trusted friend for him, leaving Jai devastated.
Jai and his family buries Chitra’s body under a banyan tree and heads towards the border. Meanwhile, Ratna is under attack by Francis’s men, and they destroy her call center, which disconnects Jai. Ratna killed them all and started to meet Jai and his family to protect them in person. Jai and his family are about to cross a deadly bridge, which is the only exit route in Ambaragodugu, which has not been used much by the public. After crossing the bridge and getting out of the forest, the police force is waiting for them for security from Agarwal. When they are about to cross the bridge, Francis attacks them with landmines. Jai kills Francis by using his archery skills and successfully escapes the bridge. While killing Francis, he realizes that he has overcome his trauma, and all the family knows through Divya that Jai is Jhansi’s younger brother. Then, Murugan finds them crossing the bridge and is about to shoot an arrow, but suddenly, Ratna stabs him from the back and kills him. She then chose to go back instead of following them.
Everyone successfully reaches the police force and gets a basic treatment for Jhansi, who had been severely stabbed by Francis before his death. Then Jhansi, instead of going for treatment, stands to protect justice; she decides to share her reports in the Collectorate of Vizag at 9:00 AM. The commissioner reveals that Vizag is completely hijacked by Agarwal’s private army, who are on a hunt to kill them, and he was cuffed up by the corrupt politicians to not interfere. Then, Jai diverts his men towards him and reaches Agarwal’s house, where Agarwal meets him in person with the help of a soundproof box and declares it is his idea to divide him from his family and they are no one to protect his family. Observing Agarwal’s situation, Jai breaks the latter’s shield, takes him hostage, and stops all the people who are trying to kill Jhansi. Later, the wounded Jhansi successfully submits the report on time, and Jai releases Agarwal from his soundproof shield in front of victims of his factory blast. Agarwal cannot bear any sound and dies due to ruptured eardrums.
Finally, the film ends up with the victims getting justice and the government taking over Agawal’s properties. Finally, Jhansi declares that Jai is a god-gifted brother to her and fulfilled his wish. Later, Jai pays the last rites to Chitra on her headstone and declares his love towards Ratna, and they happily hug each other.