Athidhi

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 drenched and gives him an umbrella. The umbrella is swept 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, they adopt him and name him 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 grab the gun. However, The police see Athidhi with a gun and Amrita's dead parents and arrests Athidhi. Amrita also thinks that Athidhi killed her parents and starts to hate him.

14 years later, Athidhi is released from prison and goes in search of the psychopath and Amrita. Athidhi becomes a hurdle to the local goons, as he impedes their illegal operation. Once, he runs across a girl named Amrita chased by stalkers from her college. Amrita and Athidhi meet many times and soon starts to like Athidhi, but has to go back to Hyderabad before she can confess her feelings. When she tries to tell him that she is leaving, Athidhi realizes that the goons are after him, he continuously tells Amrita to leave and slaps her, when she doesn't listen. Amrita 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 explains Amrita's origin to Athidhi, who leaves for Hyderabad to find her. Athidhi arrives in Hyderabad and decides to stay with Amrita's family, he learns about a dreaded gangster named Kaiser. Later, Athidhi realizes that Kaiser was the psychopath who killed Amrita's parents. Athidhi stops two attempts by Kaiser to murder Amrita. Meanwhile, Inspector Ajay Shastri is trying to track down Kaiser but Ajay dies in an explosion in his house, which was planned by Kaiser. Athidhi figures out that Ajay is actually Kaiser himself. Before Kaiser's house blew up, Kaiser managed to escape and MLA Maccha Srinu realizes that Ajay and Kaiser are the same person and succumbs to shock and dies from a heart attack.

Athidhi manages to kill Kaiser's men. Kaiser kidnaps Amrita and her younger sister, and he kills the sister. Kaiser leads Amrita to a dungeon, where he 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 in the nerves and stuck in a certain air tank, but is rescued, and Kaiser is killed. Thus, Athidhi and Amrita (who realizes that Athidhi is not her parents's killer) unite in the end.

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

A critic from Rediff.com wrote that the film "is built up through a 'racy' screenplay which is gripping to an extent, but stretches to three long hours".[3] Jeevi of Idlebrain.com praised the film's first half while criticising the last thirty minutes of the film.[4]

The film was released worldwide with 500 prints in 820 theaters across the globe.[5] Athidhi grossed ₹6 crore on its first day, and ₹16.72 crore in four days worldwide.[6] It grossed ₹12.50 crore in eight days from Andhra Pradesh.[7] In 11 days the film grossed ₹25 crore (US$3.1 million) worldwide.[8] The film grossed ₹35 crore by the four-week run at the worldwide Box office.[9]

• Nandi Award for Best Villain – Murali Sharma (2007)[10]

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