Athidhi (2007 film)


Athidhi is a 2007 Indian Telugu language action thriller film starring Mahesh Babu and Amrita Rao, directed by Surender Reddy and produced by G. Ramesh Babu, brother of Mahesh Babu, under their banner Krishna Pictures Private Limited. It was released on 18 October 2007. Athidhi was released with 500 prints in 820 theaters all over the world. Athidhi finished 35 days in 400 centres successfully. The film was remade in Bengali and released in Bangladesh as Durdorsho Premik starring Shakib Khan and Apu Biswas.

Plot

An orphan boy wanders through Delhi looking for a job. When selling balloons, he sees a girl whose name is Amrita and gives her a free balloon. A few days later during a storm, Amrita finds the boy getting soaked and gives him an umbrella. The umbrella blows into a place nearby, where Amrita's parents are headed. The boy stops their car and tells them about the dangerous path ahead destroyed by the storm. As the boy has rescued Amrita's parents, he gets adopted by them. They name the boy "Athidhi".
One day, while driving Athidhi to a hostel, they are stopped by a psychopath teenager who mugs them and shoots the parents. In his rage, Athidhi lunges after the teen and manages to take the gun. Nearby witnesses see Athidhi with a gun and Amrita's dead parents, and think that Athidhi had killed them. The police arrests Athidhi. Amrita also thinks that Athidhi killed her parents. She starts to hate him and thinks that she will never see him again.
14 years later, Athidhi gets out of jail and goes in search of the psychopath murderer and the girl. In Delhi, local goons are feared by Athidhi, as he becomes a hurdle for their illegal operation. Once, he runs across a girl named Amrita chased by stalkers from her college. Amrita and Athidhi meet many times. Amrita starts to like Athidhi but has to go back to Hyderabad before she can confess her love. When she tries to tell him that she is leaving, Athidhi sees some goons nearby and he realizes that they’re after him. He continuously tells her to leave the place but when she doesn’t, he slaps her and she runs away crying. Later, Athidhi goes to Amrita to apologize, but only finds her friend Madhavi. She tells him that Amrita just wanted to tell him that she is leaving. They go to the cemetery to look for her. Madhavi then explains that a boy adopted by Amrita's parents killed them when she was young, and Amrita goes to the cemetery to see their graves all the time. Athidhi realizes that she was the same girl that he met in his childhood and leaves for Hyderabad to find her.
When Athidhi also arrives in Hyderabad and decides to stay with Amrita's family, he learns that a mafia leader and kidnapper named Kaiser is feared there. Later, Athidhi realizes that this was the psychopath teen who killed the girl's parents. Athidhi stops two attempts by Kaiser to murder Amrita.
Meanwhile, Officer Ajay is trying to track down Kaiser. Ajay dies in an explosion in his house, which was planned by Kaiser. Athidhi figures out that Ajay's real name is Kaiser. Before Kaiser's house blew up, Kaiser managed to escape. When MLA Maccha Srinu realizes that Ajay and Kaiser are the same person, he succumbs to shock and dies from a heart attack. Athidhi manages to kill many of Kaiser's men. Kaiser kidnaps Amrita and her younger sister, and he kills the sister. Kaiser leads Amrita to a dungeon, calls Athidhi, and tells him that he will kill Amrita if Athidhi does not rescue her in 12 hours. Athidhi kidnaps Kaiser's brother and agrees to trade him for Amrita. However, Kaiser kills his brother since according to him, Kaiser should not have any weakness. Kaiser then reveals that he killed Amrita to which Athidhi kills all Kaiser’s henchmen in rage. He beats Kaiser and Kaiser then reveals that he didn’t kill Amrita but she is on the verge of death. Amrita is severely cut and stuck in a certain air tank, but is rescued and Kaiser is killed. Athidhi and Amrita unite, and she realizes that he was not the one who killed her parents.

Cast

Athidhi collected a share of in its first week, breaking all records at that time. It collected a final share amount of in 2 weeks. Gross collections of the film went up to.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Mani Sharma and released by Aditya Music.