Yashoda is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language action thriller film, written and directed by Hari–Harish. It stars Samantha in the titular role alongside Unni Mukundan, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, and Murali Sharma.
Yashoda, who works in Zomato, becomes a surrogate mother, as she needs to fund her sister’s surgery. She is taken to Eva, a state-of-the-art surrogacy center owned by Dr. Madhubala. Yashoda befriends some of the surrogate mothers and spends time with them. All of them find out that each of them are poor, in need of money.
One day, Yashoda learns about her sister, Brinda’s disappearance, and finds that she had become a surrogate mother to arrange the money for her and was taken to Eva. In order to find her, Yashoda became a surrogate mother, and planned everything from the start. A fight ensues, where Yashoda defeats the goons and Gautham, but gets hit in the stomach, resulting in the death of the fetus. Meanwhile, Vasudeva and his team defeat the tribals and kill Balram. Yashoda meets up with her fellow surrogates and asks about Brinda but does not get any information about her.
