Athidhi (2007)

While the nation is terrorized by a slew of kidnappings and murders, a young woman falls in love with a mysterious man; not realizing that he is the one who went to jail for the murder of her parents, thirteen years earlier.

Director:

Reddy Surender

Writers:

Vimal Kashyap (lyrics), Prakash Kothare (dialogues),

Stars:

Mahesh Babu, Amrita Rao, Baby Anni

Cast

Credited cast:
Mahesh Babu	...	Athidhi / Aditya (as Prince Mahesh)
Amrita Rao	...	Amrita Goutham
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Baby Anni	...	Aishwarya
Malaika Arora	...	Dancer / Singer (as Malaika Arora Khan)
Brahmanandam	...	Shivram
Vajja Venkata Giridhar	...	Hero friend
Hema	...	Aishwarya's mom
Rajeev Kanakala	...	S. Goutham
Kota
Srinivasa Rao Kota
Venu Madhav	...	(as Venu)
Melkote
Nasser	...	Home Minister
Gangadhar Panday	...	Kidnap victim
Pragathi

Storyline

Young Amrita Goutham's parents bring home a poor and homeless youth from the streets of Hyderabad, and adopt him. Shortly thereafter her life is shattered when her parents are killed by this youth. and she goes to live with her brother, and his wife. Years later, she has grown up, and has a niece, Aishwarya. While being chased by some goons, a male named Aditya, comes to her rescue, and she falls in love with him. Amidst nation-wide kidnappings taking place allegedly at the hands of one Kaiser, she soon finds out that Aditya is none other than the one who killed her parents and may have returned back into her family's life to kill all of them.

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Plot Keywords:

murder | false accusation of murder | psychopath | death of parents | loss of parents | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Romance

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Telugu Tamil Hindi

Release Date:

18 October 2007 (India)

Also Known As:

Guest

Filming Locations:

Delhi, India

Company Credits

Production Co:

24 Frame Entertainment, Krishna Productions, Shalimar Productions

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

In one of the scenes where Athidi is talking with Kaiser, he is holding the phone (Nokia N73) upside down. In the first shot the phone is held properly, the subsequent shot, the speaker which is placed at the top on the phone is clearly visible near his chin

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Connections

Spoofs The Matrix (1999)

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Soundtracks

"Tujhey Sach Kahun"
Lyrics by Vimal Kashyap
Composed by Mani Sharma

User Reviews

Shot to waste money!

This movie has been based on a few lines of script stretched into three freaking whole hours of useless boring crap. Had it not been for Mahesh I would not have bothered to watch it to the end.

Btw, Mahesh Babu looks horrible with his new hairstyle or whatever. I guess they tried to bring out a raw look to him which failed.

Most of the characters in the film lack true reason. Again, this shows poor script at hand.

Comedy, involving Brahmanandam and Sunil cannot be called so, since they don't even remotely tickle your funny bone.

Its obvious throughout that the people behind the movie tried a mix of Pokiri and Athadu. We even see the same Pokiri villain in a ridiculous avatar. Added to that is a large pool of actors from bollywood, which includes the heroine. I gave this movie 3 only because of the excellent cinematography, and the songs (video+audio)

Watch it only if you are an ardent Mahesh Babu fan