Munu Swamy (Jagapathi Babu) and his three brothers kill Swastika Nagars landlord (Sharat Kumar) and his family members as he is playing spoilsport to their business plans.

The landlords baby boy is saved by a calf and the boy is raised by child-less couple (JP and Pavitra Lokesh). 20-years-later, the boy Vishwa (Bellamkonda Sai) grows up to take up the business empire of his foster father in New York.

In New York, he meets and falls in love with an Indian girl Soundarya Lahari (Pooja Hegde) who does religious discourse.

When she comes to know that her father in India has met with an accident, she heads to Hyderabad and Vishwa follows her. Munu Swamys brothers are killed one by one with the involvement of Vishwa.

Why and how does this happen?

Sri Wass directed Saakshyam starts off with a prologue. It begins with the killing of Sharat Kumar 20-years back and is narrated how a villain destroys a family. The villains think that they have killed everyone, removed all the evidence (Sakshyam) of this carnage.

However, much like in Baahubali, the baby boy is saved by the mother and he miraculously travels to Benaras. With the blessings of Lord Shiva, the boy is adopted by a rich couple. Then comes the voiceover of Prakash Raj announcing that people think that no one is watching their cruel acts, but there is an eye above in the sky, that witnesses everything.

Stage is set for a riveting drama, we assume. But soon, we come to know that the prologue is just a well cut trailer, the real movie is anything but the prologue.

The beginnings are as ambitious as Baahubali, but the later portions are like NTRs Shakti or Nagarjunas Damarukam.

Once the title roles end, we come to see the regular sequences of hero introduction with an action stunt in Dubai, his love story with a beautiful girl Pooja Hegde in New York, some misunderstandings between hero and heroine, couple of songs and heroine leaving to India without informing him and hero following her to win her love all these happen in the first half.

Such an old style and rehashed scenes come when the beginning promises something else. Luckily, the film comes back to the original point just before the interval bang. Here the pancha boothalu concept is introduced.

There is also a sub plot. A creative director who works in heros company prepares a game in which hero doesnt know who killed their parents but he starts killing them while the villains arent aware who is behind them. He also informs him that in the game hero kills the villains with different elements like water, fire, air, and earth.

This is interweaved to heros real life incidents. Once hero lands in India to meet his lover similar things happen. These are handled interestingly. This portion has brought novelty to an otherwise regular revenge drama.

The elements of pancha boothalu to a regular revenge story has given new dimension, but the problem here is that the director has written clumsy screenplay. He has relied more on grand visuals and action stunts than gripping narration.

Also the climax portions are not at all handled properly. Thus whatever the interest middle portion has generated is spoiled towards the end.

Despite being regular revenge drama story, Saakshayam has enough material to be a riveting masala movie but it is director Sri Wasss lack of narrative skills that has spoiled the show. Moreover, the movie has too lengthy runtime.

The grand visuals, and some elements may appeal to action movie lovers and mass audiences, but it doesnt entertain wholly and turns out to be over the top action drama.