Athidhi () is a 2007 Indian Telugu language-language neo-noir action thriller film directed by Surender Reddy and produced by Ramesh Babu under Krishna Pictures Private Limited. The film stars Mahesh Babu, alongside Amrita Rao (in her Telugu film debut and her only Telugu film to date), Murali Sharma and Ashish Vidyarthi.
Athidhi was released on 18 October 2007 to mixed reviews from critics who praised the Mani Sharma's Soundtrack and Performances of Babu, Rao and Sharma but criticized the overdose of violence and illogical scenes. This movie completed 35 days in 400 centres. The film was remade in Bengali language in Bangladesh as Durdhorsho Premik.
Madhavi explains Amrita's origin to Athidhi, who realizes that Amrita is his long-lost friend. Athidhi arrives in Hyderabad and decides to head back Delhi Amrita's family, but he learns about a dreaded gangster Kaiser wants to kill Amrita. Later, Athidhi realizes that Kaiser was the psychopath who framed him for the death of Amrutha's parents. It is revealed that Athidhi was adopted by Amrita's parents after he saved them from a dangerous path. While driving Athidhi to a hostel, they are stopped by a psychopath teenager who shot the parents. Athidhi managed to grab the gun from the teenager, but the cops misunderstand Athidhi behind the death of Amrita's parents and arrested him.
Meanwhile, Inspector Ajay Shastri is trying to track down Kaiser, but soon dies in an explosion in his house, which was planned by Kaiser. Athidhi soon figures out that Ajay is actually Kaiser. Before Kaiser's house blew up, Kaiser managed to escape and MLA Maccha Srinu realizes that Ajay and Kaiser are the same person and dies from a heart attack. Athidhi stops two attempts by Kaiser to kill Amrita, where he manages to kill Kaiser's men. Kaiser kidnaps Amrita and her younger sister, where he soon kills the sister.
Kaiser leads Amrita to a dungeon and calls Athidhi, where he tells him that he will kill Amrita if Athidhi does not rescue her in 12 hours. Athidhi kidnaps Kaiser's brother and agrees to release him in exchange for Amrita, but Kaiser kills his brother as he should not have any weakness. Kaiser reveals that he already killed Amrita, where Athidhi soon kills all Kaiser's henchmen and thrashes Kaiser. However, Kaiser reveals that he lied about killing Amrita and that she is severely cut in the nerves and stuck in a certain air tank. Athidhi rescues Amrita and finishes Kaiser. Athidhi reunites with Amrita who realizes that Athidhi is not behind her parents' death.
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