


In the end, he narrates how he planned and escaped the prison after realising he wouldn’t be released from the prison even after getting the president’s pardon. During the game, he escapes from the prison, which he was planning from the start after meeting his childhood friend and the fellow inmate who helped him to learn chess. Just before his death sentence is carried out, he requests to play his final game with the chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand as a last wish. During the process of asking the president pardon, there is a terrorist attack that leads the president to turn down his petition. He then tries for presidential pardon by becoming popular by playing chess where he wins the National level competition and enters Commonwealth games and wins the tournament. Alongside this, he tries to prove his innocence and nullify his death penalty with the help of Manasa, a lawyer, but is not successful.

He starts participating in National level competitions. He grows interest in chess and masters it in the prison under the guidance of Srimannarayana, a fellow inmate. Yatra falsely frames him as a terrorist, and he ends up in a prison with a death sentence. He grows up to be a con artist indulging in white-collar crimes. He later works under a magician, learning every trick and gimmick he could. Īditya escapes from the orphanage along with his friend, who gets separated. It received generally mixed reviews and became a flop in the box office. The film was released on 26 February 2021. Nithiin plays Aditya, a chess player who is on death row.

Anand Prasad's Bhavya Creations, the film stars Nithiin, Rakul Preet Singh, Priya Prakash Varrier (in her Telugu film debut), and Simran Choudhary. Check is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language prison drama film written and directed by Chandra Sekhar Yeleti.
