Witness) is a 2018 Indian Telugu-language fantasy action film written and directed by Sriwass, and produced by Abhishek Pictures.
Its music is scored by Harshavardhan Rameshwar, with cinematography by Arthur A. Wilson, production design by A. S. Prakash and editing by Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao.
Raju Garu manages to distract the brothers while his wife runs away with the child, but she becomes weak and is unable to continue due to her deep injury.
In order to conceal their crime, they set fire to the cowshed, because in bad time even animals can become a prime witness to their sins.
Viswa and his friend run into a girl named Soundarya Lahari, a Hindu Spiritual Preacher who came USA to preach on Indian mythology.
She introduces the group to Valmiki her childhood friend an IT professional who has an ardent knowledge on Indian Mythology, who helps by giving them a unique idea for a game which resembles Viswa's life story - about a boy whose entire family was killed by villains and the five elements of nature taking revenge on the villains through the boy.
Meanwhile, Soundarya leaves for India to see her father Tagore, who was bedridden by Munuswamy's gang for fighting against them in court.
Later in a couple situations Soundarya was saved by Vishwa from Veeraswamy, Munuswamy's 1st brother and eventually kill by him through the air and earth elements in nature.
When he came to Kasi to give salutations from his mother side to kaasi Vishwanath temple there he accidentally meets 2nd brother of Munuswamy he was killed through him by element of fire.
Soundarya accepts Viswa's love for his efforts to save her from Munuswamy's brother and agrees to marry him.
Meanwhile, Valmiki designs full game and come back to India and meets his grand father practicing the vedic astrology who are looking the bad omens of Munuswamy and his brothers and also fixing the marriage dates of Vishwa and Soundarya.
After hearing Valmiki's game concept he understands that this is a vengeance on Munuswamy and his brothers by the Almighty of Mother Nature because of their sins committed on Vishwa's biological parents.
He reveals to Valmiki that this screenplay was written by the mother nature through him, she witnessed all the incidents and selected him to design the situations and it cannot be stopped by anyone.
Meanwhile, Viswa's business rival, Shakti join hands with Munuswamy for taking over his major stakes in India and abducts them, then he threatens Vishwa to give them the shares documents.
[4][5] Director Sriwass narrated the script to Bellamkonda Sreenivas a couple of months before the release of Jaya Janaki Nayaka (2017).
[10][11] Director Sriwass' daughter Vedaswa handed over the script while popular Raghava Lawrence switched on the camera.
[16] Other technicians includes cinematographer Arthur A. Wilson, editor Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao, production designer A. S. Prakash, stunt director Peter Hein, and costume designers Nischay Niyogi and Neeta Lulla, and dance choreographers Shobi Paulraj, Raghu and Bhanu.
[17] According to Bellamkonda Sreenivas, the story revolves around five elements (Panchamahabhuta) – Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Aether.
[27] Ravi Kishan, Ashutosh Rana, Sarath Kumar, Meena, Jayaprakash, Pavitra Lokesh, Brahmaji, Madhu Guruswamy, and Vennela Kishore were also roped in to play important roles in the film.
[40] A 15-day schedule was begun on mid October 2017 at Hampi and Hospet, Karnataka, where the team shot action sequences choreographed by Peter Hein.
[43] Some scenes featuring Pooja Hegde, Jayaprakash, Pavithra Lokesh and Vennela Kishore was shot in this schedule.
Action director Peter Hein choreographed few climax sequences that took place on a huge set in Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad.
[46] Final schedule of the film was shot at USA, with Sreenivas, Pooja Hegde and Vennela Kishore in April 2018.
[51] In late April 2018, a 15 minutes dance sequence featuring Sreenivas and Hegde was shot on a busy street at New York City.
[59][60] Hari Haran and Sachin Sudhakaran worked on sound design and IGENE handled digital intermediate.
[73] The motion poster showcases the five elements (Panchamahabhuta) – Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Aether, inside a giant eye.
"[91] Murali Krishna C H of The New Indian Express wrote "Bellamkonda achieves believability with a graceful, restrained performance.
Pooja Hegde gets more screen time in this film compared to her last outing DJ and she does a good job.
"[92] In his review, Krishna Sripada of The News Minute wrote "Sriwass’ fantasy tale tells the story of how Vishwa, whose entire family was wiped out in a violent massacre, gets his revenge".
"[95] Jeevi of Idlebrain.com write "Saakshyam is a large canvas film with a different concept and an innovative use of Karma and nature’s elements.