A business tycoon decides to adopt a stranger after he saves her life when someone tries to kill her. It turns out, the stranger has a murky past and while she tries everything she can to save him from it, fate brings him at crossroads with his past life.
Acting
Balakrishna's dual role commitment to maximum dramatic volume
Direction
K.S. Ravikumar's precision-engineered emotional whiplash
Costume
Business tycoon drip that screams 'I own helicopters'

Director
K. S. Ravikumar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Vedhika's Telugu comeback after nearly a decade, and she reportedly learned the language phonetically for her scenes.
The 'rich benefactor adopts humble hero' trope is pure Telugu cinema comfort food, but Ruler adds the twist of the adoptee having their own hidden aristocratic lineage.