

The forensic expert informs Yamini about a hair sample recovered from the crime scene and how it doesn't match anyone else in Akash's home. Yamini then learns of the rivalry between Siddharth and Sampath Siddharth helped Sampath's daughter elope with her lover against her father's wishes. She also questions Vema and orders him not to leave the city without permission, but he secretly escapes. She reaches out to Akash’s friend and shows him the photograph of Siddharth/Aditya, but he refuses to recognize him. Sub-inspector Yamini is assigned to solve the case.

Aditya, on the other hand, cites various laws to escape torture. Siddharth's alibi is that his car broke down, so he called a taxi driver to help him. Sampath, an inspector who shares an old rivalry with Siddharth, tortures him. Both of them are brought in and interrogated without knowledge of the other's presence. As the investigation of Akash’s murder proceeds, a selfie clicked by a couple nearby is found with either Siddharth or Aditya in it. The next day, Aditya frees Vema by paying his debt and wins Gayathri's trust by returning her money and telling her the truth. That night, one of them breaks into a house and attacks the owner, Akash, stabbing him to death. After taking the money, Aditya is enraged, and so is Siddharth after a party. One day, Aditya tries to help Vema pay his debt by extracting money from Gayathri through lies, but she helps him in spite of knowing the truth. Siddharth is in love with Mahima, while Gayathri loves Aditya, unaware of his real identity. Siddharth is a IIT graduated civil engineer running a successful building firm, while his lookalike, Aditya, is a gambling thief who deceives people along with his sidekick, Vema. The film was released on 14 January 2021, coinciding with Sankranthi, after being delayed from its initial release date of 9 April 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Red has music composed by Mani Sharma while Sameer Reddy and Junaid Siddiqui performed the cinematography and editing, respectively. Most of the film was shot in Hyderabad, except for two songs that were shot in Italy. The film was announced in October, had its principal shoot commenced on November 2019 and ended in March 2020. A remake of the 2019 Tamil-language film Thadam by Magizh Thirumeni, it follows a murder investigation involving a civil engineer and his lookalike as prime suspects. It stars Ram Pothineni in a double role alongside Nivetha Pethuraj, Malvika Sharma and Amritha Aiyer. Red is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language action thriller film directed by Kishore Tirumala and produced by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore under Sri Sravanthi Movies.
