Athidhi
Athidhi (Atithi) | |
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Directed by | Surender Reddy |
Written by | Vakkantham Vamsi |
Story by | Surender Reddy |
Produced by | Ronnie Screwvala Siddharth Roy Kapoor Ramesh Babu |
Starring | Mahesh Babu Amrita Rao Ashish Vidyarthi Murali Sharma Kota Srinivasa Rao Nassar |
Narrated by | Abburi Ravi |
Cinematography | Sameer Reddy |
Edited by | Gowtham Raju |
Music by | Mani Sharma |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | UTV Motion Pictures |
Release date | 19 October 2007 |
Running time | 172 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Telugu |
Budget | ₹20 crore (US$2.4 million)[1] |
Athidhi or Atithi (English: Guest) [3] is a 2007 Telugu 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. It was dubbed into Tamil as Thani Kaattu Raja, and into Hindi as International Khiladi: The Iron Man (2008). Athidi was released with 500 prints in 820 theaters all over the world.[2] Athidi collected a share of ₹28 crore (US$3.4 million) in its lifetime.[2] Athidi finished 35 days in 400 centres successfully. It grossed ₹35 crore (US$4.2 million) in four weeks.[4]
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 Athidhi killed them. The police arrest Athidhi. Amrita also thinks Athidhi killed her parents, starts to hate him, and thinks she will never see him again.
Fourteen years later, Athidhi (Mahesh Babu) 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 (Amrita Rao) 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 gets annoyed. He continuously tells her to leave him alone, and when she keeps asking to get some coffee, he slaps her. She runs away crying. Later, Athidhi goes to Amrita to apologize, but only finds her friend Madhavi (Maadhavi Latha). She tells him that Amrita just wanted to tell him that she's 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 (Murali Sharma) 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 (Murali Sharma) 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 (Kota Srinivasa Rao) realizes 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 little niece, and he kills the niece. Kaiser leads Amrita to a dungeon, calls Athidhi, and tells him that he will kill Amrita if Athidhi doesn't rescue her in 12 hours. Athidhi kidnaps Kaiser's brother (Ajay) and trades him for Amrita. Amrita is severely cut and stuck in a certain air tank, but is rescued. Kaiser is killed. Athidhi and Amrita unite, and she realizes he wasn't the one who killed her parents.
Cast
- Mahesh Babu as Athidhi Aditya (Aadi in the Hindi dubbed Version)
- Amrita Rao as Amrita
- Murali Sharma as Inspector Ajay Sastry/Kaiser
- Ashish Vidyarthi as Danny Bhai
- Kota Srinivasa Rao as Maccha Srinu, an MLA who works under Kaiser
- Ajay as Kaiser's brother
- Nassar as Amrita's uncle, the Home Minister
- Brahmanandam as Shivram
- Ravi Prakash as Athidhi's friend
- Sunil as Amrita's fiancé
- Pragathi as Amrita's aunt
- Subbaraju as Ganni Bhai
- Maadhavi Latha as Madhavi, Amritha's friend
- Ashmitha Karnani as Amrita's mother
- Baby Karman Sindhu
- Baby Annie as Baby Amrita
- Hema
- Shankar Melkote
- Venu Madhav (cameo)
- Rajiv Kanakala as Amrita's father (cameo)
- Malaika Arora Khan (Item number in the song "Rathraina")
Crew
- Director: Surender Reddy
- Producer: Ramesh Babu
- Music: Mani Sharma
- Cinematography: Sameer Reddy
- Editor: Gowtham Raju
- Stunt director: Stun Siva
Box office
- The film was released worldwide with 500 prints in 820 theaters across the globe.[5]
- The film opened with a gross collection of ₹ 6 crores on the first day. It collected a total of around ₹16.70 crore (US$2.0 million) share in the first four days of its release.[6]
Athidi collected a share of ₹22 crore (US$2.6 million) in its first week, breaking all records at that time. It collected a final share amount of ₹28 crore (US$3.4 million) (net) in 2 weeks. Gross collections of the film went up to ₹35 crore (US$4.2 million).
Soundtrack
The Music Was Composed By Mani Sharma and Released by Aditya Music.
Athidhi | ||||
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Film score by | ||||
Released | 27 September 2007[7] | |||
Recorded | 2007 | |||
Genre | Soundtrack | |||
Length | 27:09 | |||
Label | Aditya Music | |||
Producer | Mani Sharma | |||
Mani Sharma chronology | ||||
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No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Khabaddarani" | Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry | Naveen, Rahul Nambiar | 4:27 |
2. | "Gona Gona" | Chandrabose | Naveen, Rita | 4:28 |
3. | "Satyam Emito" | Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry | Deepu, Usha | 4:50 |
4. | "Khiladi Koona" | Vishwa Deepak | Karthik, Rita | 4:17 |
5. | "Ratraina" | Bhaskarabhatla Ravi Kumar | Ranjith, Anushka | 4:17 |
6. | "Valla Valla" | Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry | Rahul Nambiar, Darshana | 4:20 |
Total length: | 27:09 |
References
- ^ Business Line : Today's Paper / ECONOMY : Telugu film industry enters new era. Thehindubusinessline.com (6 November 2007). Retrieved on 2012-01-04.
- ^ a b c "Athidhi>Jalsa>Maghadeera<Adurs". Manabalayya Forum. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ "We are now here ... infiya.com". infiya.blogspot.in. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ "Athidi 50days <22 ?". Nandamuri Fans Discussion Board. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ Atithi tots Rs 125 mn in 1st week – Andhravilas.com -Telugu Cinema, Telugu Movies, India News & World News, Bollywood, Songs : Archived 1 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Andhravilas.com (31 October 2007). Retrieved on 2012-01-04.
- ^ Prince Mahesh Babu scores hit with Athidi. Retrieved on 2013-09-27.
- ^ http://creative.sulekha.com/athidhi-audio-release-again-postponed-to-27th_291556_blog
External links
- Use dmy dates from July 2013
- 2007 films
- Telugu-language films
- Indian films
- Indian action films
- Indian romance films
- Telugu-language films dubbed in Hindi
- Films directed by Surender Reddy
- Telugu film scores by Mani Sharma
- UTV Motion Pictures films
- Telugu-language films dubbed in Tamil
- Films featuring an item number