Meter (film)
2023 film by Ramesh Kaduri
Meter is a 2023 Indian Telugu-language action comedy drama film written and directed by Ramesh Kaduri and produced by Clap Entertainment. Meter features Kiran Abbavaram and Athulya Ravi (in her Telugu debut) in lead roles. It was released on 7 April 2023 to highly negative reviews from the critics and audience, and was a box-office bomb, becoming a huge all-time career-wide disaster for Kiran Abbavaram.
Plot
In 2006, during the police selections in Rajahmundry, Venkat Ratnam, the father of Arjun Kalyan who was a police officer at the time, noticed a candidate trying to join the selected candidates' list under MLA Kantham Byreddy's recommendation. Venkat Ratnam refused to accept the candidate due to his suspicions, despite pressure from Byreddy. As a result, he was transferred to Warangal, where he tried to intervene when Byreddy's convoy was obstructing a pregnant woman waiting in an autorickshaw. However, Byreddy slapped Venkat Ratnam for his interference. Arjun Kalyan, who witnessed the incident, grew to resent the police job. Nonetheless, his father dreamt of making him a sincere and honest police officer, unlike himself who was forced to do his job in fear.
Fast forward to 2023, Arjun Kalyan participated in Telangana Police Selections due to his father's insistence, but he failed the selections because he did not want to become a police officer.
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