HIT: The Second Case
HIT: The Second Case is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language slasher crime thriller film written and directed by Sailesh Kolanu. It is the second installment in the HITverse following HIT: The First Case (2020). The film stars Adivi Sesh, Meenakshi Chaudhary and Rao Ramesh. The plot follows Krishna Dev (Sesh) solving a serial murder case in Visakhapatnam. HIT: The Second Case was released on 2 December 2022 and received positive reviews from critics, and it became a commercial success at the box office. A Hindi remake will be produced by Red Chillies Entertainment and Dil Raju Productions. Ram Prasad Koduri perceives his wife Jhansi's extra-marital affair and feels broken. Fearing that he would expose her, Jhansi has Ram Prasad arrested on false marital rape charges, tarnishing his reputation. Though he returns home, he is socially boycotted. Being a carpenter, he builds a tree house, and later commits suicide. Krishna Dev, shortly known as KD is a SP in the Homicidal Intervention Team (HIT) of Andhra Pradesh in Vishakapatnam, who is accomplished for his presence of mind and quickness in nabbing criminals. He is engaged in a live-in relationship with Aarya, an entrepreneur and active member of an association for women's welfare. A woman employed in a bar, Sanjana is brutally murdered and butchered at her workplace after everyone leaves. Assigned on the case, KD learns from the forensic department that, of the body parts they found at the crime spot apparently of Sanjana, only the head is hers and the other body parts are of three other women. Through a bite mark on Sanjana's neck, it is discovered that the murderer has an extra tooth on his incisors. Along with his teammates, Abhilash and Varsha, KD meets Sanjana's roommate Rajitha, who informs them of a pub, Sanjana frequented. KD and his team interrogate the staff but to no avail. KD meets Sanjana's parents and through one of her photos with her childhood friends, he realizes that Sanjana had a friend Raghavudu, with an extra tooth on his incisors like that of the murderer.
