Athidhi
Tags: revenge, murder

Plot synopsis:
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 the 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 "Aditya"
One day, while driving Aditya to a hostel, they are stopped by a teenager, a psychopath, who mugs them, and shoots the parents. In his rage, Aditya lunges after the teen and manages to take the gun. Nearby witnesses see Aditya with a gun, and Amrita's dead parents, and think that Aditya killed them. The police arrest Aditya. Amrita also thinks that it was Aditya who killed her parents and starts to hate him and thinks that she will never see him again.
Fourteen years later, Aditya (now Mahesh Babu) gets out of jail, and goes in search of the psychopath murderer, and the girl. In Delhi, local goons are feared by Aditya, 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 Aditya meet many times. Amrita starts to like Aditya, but has to go back to Hyderabad before she can confess her love. When she tries to tell him that she is leaving, Aditya 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 Aditya goes to Amrita to apologize, but only finds her friend. She tells him that Amrita just wanted to tell him that she's leaving. They go to the cemetery to look for her. Amrita's friend 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. Aditya realizes that she was the same girl that he met in his childhood and leaves for Hyderabad to find her.
When Aditya 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, Atithi realizes that this was the psychopath teen who killed the girl's parents. Aditya 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. Aditya figures out that Ajay's real name is Kaiser. Before Kaiser's house blew up, Kaiser managed to escape. When the MLA realizes that Ajay and Kaiser are the same person, the MLA, after succumbing to shock, dies from a heart attack. Aditya manages to kill many of Kaiser's men. Kaiser kidnaps Amrita and her little niece, and he then kills the little niece. Kaiser leads Amrita to a dungeon, calls Aditya, and tells him that he will kill Amrita if Aditya doesn't rescue her in 12 hours. Aditya kidnaps Kaiser's brother, and trades him for Amrita. Amrita is severely cut and stuck in a certain air tank, but is rescued. Kaiser is killed. Aditya and Amrita unite, and she realises he wasn't the one who killed her parents.

Review: cute couple, messy story. Manesh was looking gorgeous in this movie, but unfortunately it was a bit lame. I found the plot a little hard to catch on to, but it had some interesting twists. It was fast paced but I thought it was more exaggerated than the usual Telugu films - Telugu movies are already exaggerated (especially the fights), but this one was a little overboard, the hero had both too much intelligence and too much strength. And one thing I hate seeing in movies is then endings in which either the hero or the heroine (or in this case, both) is (are) badly injured but the couple starts to walk somewhere like their love is really enough to totally heal them physically. Kaizer mentioned that Amrita is about to die and she really looked like it, but then all of sudden she was fine when the story ended. That was the last drop of exaggeration for me. As for the love story, it was a nice one. Amrita and Manesh looked sweet together. The songs were enjoyable.But I wish I would have picked another movie instead of this one. Watch it at your own risk. You might feel your time was wasted.. 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. Such a waste of remaking Hollywood classics. People of TFI don't admit that their movies
are based on Hollywood scriptsit's just badly implemented remake of the usual suspects.
The name kaiser itself is from that moviekaiser soze ....