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Vyooham (2023 TV series)

Vyooham (Telugu: వ్యూహం) is an Indian Telugu-language crime thriller streaming television series written and directed by Sashikanth Srivaishnav Peesapati, produced by Supriya Yarlagadda under the Annapurna Studios banner, and released on Amazon Prime Video on 14 December 2023¹^•². Its first season consists of eight episodes of roughly 36 minutes each²^•³.

Key fact	Detail
Format	Telugu-language scripted crime thriller web series, 8 episodes, about 36 minutes each²^•³
Premiere	14 December 2023, Amazon Prime Video, with English subtitles²
Creator	Written and directed by Sashikanth Srivaishnav Peesapati; produced by Supriya Yarlagadda, Annapurna Studios¹
Lead cast	Sai Sushanth Reddy, Chaitanya Krishna, Ravindra Vijay, with Preethi Asrani, Pavani Gangireddy, and Shashank¹
Setting	Hyderabad⁴
Reception	IMDb rating 7.5/10 from 311 votes; age rating UA16+⁵^•³

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Premise

The series follows Arjun Ramachandra (Sai Sushanth Reddy), a newly appointed Indian Police Service officer assigned to a hit-and-run case in which a pregnant woman, Jessica, is injured and loses her child, while her husband Michael (Chaitanya Krishna) is left devastated⁴^•⁶. What appears to be an open-and-shut case expands into a web of seemingly unconnected people: to solve it, the officer must pursue a serial killer, a trained naxal, a suspended cop, and a terrorist organization, while confronting his own painful past⁷.

The trailer presents the investigation as a cat-and-mouse game with rising stakes. Arjun explains why he joined the police, deals with a suspect who is an ex-naxal linked to jihadi elements, and locks horns with Michael, who involves himself in the investigation as a matter of personal vendetta⁴. Later episodes connect the accident to a foiled terror attack and a task force investigation⁶.

Cast and characters

Principal cast members and their characters, as listed by IMDb⁵:

Sai Sushanth Reddy as Arjun Ramachandra
Chaitanya Krishna as Michael Manohar
Ravindra Vijay as Akbar
Shashank as Chaitanya
Preethi Asrani as Niharika
Pavani Gangireddy as Jessica
Keshav Deepak as DCP Nandakumar
Swetaa Varma as Vani Ramachandra

Production and release

Producer Supriya Yarlagadda of Annapurna Studios described the show's vision as a story that "unfolds like a puzzle and rewards a viewer's attention"⁴. The technical crew includes cinematographer K Sidhardha Reddy, editor Sai Murali, production designer Kiran Kumar Manne, and composer Sriram Maddury⁴^•⁸.

Vyooham was announced in December 2023 as a Prime Video original and premiered on 14 December 2023¹. It was the third Telugu Prime Video original released that year, after Kumari Srimathi starring Nithya Menen and Vikram K Kumar's Dhootha with Naga Chaitanya¹. The series streams in 4K with subtitles in English, Spanish, French, and Turkish, and carries a UA16+ age rating³.

Reception

The series holds a 7.5/10 rating on IMDb from 311 user votes⁵. On JustWatch's popularity charts it reached a highest position of 11, spent 5 days in the Top 100, and 134 days in the Top 1000³.

Distinct works of the same name

A separate Telugu political drama film titled Vyooham, directed by Ram Gopal Varma and starring Ajmal Ameer and Manasa Radhakrishnan, was released theatrically on 2 March 2024 after a censor-certificate dispute in the Telangana High Court⁹^•¹⁰. It is a different work from the 2023 Prime Video series described in this article.

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026