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Plot summary
The program Shiva built for the IB watches people's calls and messages, and he uses what he hears to help them. On 16 March he hears Shalini talk about raising her exam score for a scholarship in the US, and after he follows her the two grow close. On 28 April he hears a frightened girl during a power outage and sends his constable friend Renuka to her address. The next day both women are reported dead. Overcome with guilt, Shiva resigns from the IB, and his father pushes him to find whoever did it. He goes through the girl's chats and movements and learns a man had followed her to a café, then uses Facebook to reach someone who knew that man, and sets out for the village where the man grew up.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Spyder (2017)
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- Parineeti Chopra was initially signed in March 2016 to play the lead and make her South Indian debut, but her unavailability after being finalised in Takadum with Sushant Singh Rajput led the makers to approach Rakul Preet Singh for the role.
- Mahesh Babu did his own stunts without body doubles and kept performing them despite injuries in the intense scenes, so a physiotherapist was permanently posted on set, and he could not get up for a week after one shooting schedule.
- Art director Rupin Suchak said 98% of the film was shot in Chennai, with the backdrop changed to Hyderabad through computer graphics for the Telugu version.
- With a release on more than 800 screens in the US, Spyder became the widest release for a Telugu film after Baahubali 2: The Conclusion.
