LIE

LIE: Love Intelligence Enmity is a 2017 Indian Telugu-language action thriller film directed by Hanu Raghavapudi, who also wrote the story of the film with Jakka Hariprasad. It was produced by Ram Achanta, Gopichand Achanta and Anil Sunkara under 14 Reels Entertainment. The film starred Nithiin, Arjun Sarja, and debutante Megha Akash. The music was composed by Mani Sharma, while J. Yuvaraj was the director of cinematography. The film released, worldwide, on 11 August 2017 to decent reviews from the critics and audience, alike as they expressed it an easy one time watch. The performances (especially Arjun's), story, cinematography, background score, action sequences, editing, and production values were praised. However, the screenplay, direction, love track between the main leads, and climax were criticized. The film failed at the box office miserably incurring losses upto 25Cr. Plot The story starts off with a police informer calling up Bharadwaj (Ravi Kishan) with information on criminal Padmanabham (Arjun Sarja) saying that Padmanabham is at a bar wearing a suit. Bharadwaj, along with a few police officers, enters the bar. A man holds a waitress there at gunpoint, and Bharadwaj shoots him, allowing the waitress to leave. A. Sathyam (Nithiin) is a good-for-nothing son of a widowed mother (Poornima). He is unemployed and lives off of his father's monthly pension. He is unmarried and fantasizes about marrying an American girl. By a quirk of fate, Sathyam, along with a stranger named Chaitra (Megha Akash), who has a dream to win a lot of money, end up in Las Vegas, where they decide to only lie with one another. Shortly after, they start to fall in love with one another through their beautiful lies. At the National Investigation Agency (NIA), a frustrated officer named Bharadwaj (Ravi Kishan) is desperate to nab an elusive criminal named Padmanabham (Arjun Sarja), who has escaped the long arm of the law for 19 years. Padmanabham is a famous Indian ropewalker and magician, but he is also a master of disguise. Thus, the NIA has no idea what Padmanabham looks like. He is now suspected to be residing in the USA. Bharadwaj has drafted a sharp officer named Aadi (Sriram) to discover Padmanabham's hideout and identity by following a suit which he has purchased and is assumed to have an obsession with. The operation of this mission is called Sholay, implying that Aadi is the showman.