Prasanth Varma (of Awe fame) sets Kalki in the '80s Telangana village of Kollapuram - bell-bottom pants, radio, mention of India's World Cup campaign, and an MLA, who habitually rapes brides. At the heart of it is an investigative officer and encounter specialist Kalki (Dr. Rajasekhar), who nonchalantly struts around trying to untie the knots of politics and power in a conspiracy of smuggling, intensified by a few freak incidents