The film features Adivi Sesh (who also served as a co-writer of the film) and Adah Sharma in lead roles while Anasuya Bharadwaj, Vennela Kishore, Satyam Rajesh, Satyadev, and Ravi Varma in supporting roles with the music is by Sricharan Pakala and cinematography by Shaneil Deo.

[4] Rishi, a San Francisco-based investment banker, gets a voice call from his ex-girlfriend Sweta after a long gap.

They studied medicine in the same college and wanted to marry, but her father arranged an alliance with an entrepreneur named Karthik.

He hires a car from Babu Khan, a travel agent, takes a SIM card on his sister's address and stays at Hotel Marriott.

Rishi begins an informal investigation which fails many times, also inviting the ire of two African-American gangsters in the city.

Posing as Vasanth Khanna, a police officer, Rishi meets Karthik and learns that the couple was childless.

Perplexed, Rishi later watches a closed-circuit television video footage of the masked men attacking Sweta on the day when Riya went missing.

Rishi sees height markings of a child on a wall, and before he could react, Sweta commits suicide in his presence.

Sesh and Perepu chose to work with a low budget to make the project a feasible one, considering the genre's appeal.

[9] The film's concept was inspired by an incident in actor and filmmaker Adivi Sesh's life when he felt scared for a four-year-old girl and her friends at a school in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.

[12] Suresh Kavirayani of Deccan Chronicle gave the film 3.5/5 and wrote "For this kind of genre bgm is very important and Sricharan Pakala hit's the bulls eye.The Cinematography is good and visuals are thrilling but there are some logical flaws".

[14] Idlebrain gave the film 3.25/5 and wrote "Kshanam is a decent and engaging suspense thriller despite a couple of unconvincing points".

[15] Sangeetha Devi Dundoo of The Hindu stated "Kshanam has a taut screenplay, brings to fore underrated actors and marks a terrific directorial debut".