ATHIDI MOVIE REVIEW

Storyline: Athidi (Mahesh Babu) is an orphan kid adapted by Amritha’s (Amritha Rao) parents who live in New Delhi. They were later killed by a psycho killer in which Athidi was unfortunately comprehended as murderer and sent to jail for 13 years. He comes out of jail and sworn to kill the psycho killer. Incidentally Amritha is an art student in Delhi happens to be saved by Athidi from goons and falls in love with him on the first sight. Meanwhile Athidi confronts Danny (Ashish Vidyarthi) to come to know that the psycho killer’s name is Khaiser (Murali Sharma), who is a disguised kidnapper in Hyderabad. Khaiser’s next target is to kidnap Amritha. How Athidi takes revenge on Khaiser and rescues Amritha from him form the rest of the story.

Casting Performances:Mahesh Babu once again excelled with his extraordinary performance. He looks handsome and very stylish with his new hairdo. He suited the role of Athidi to the tee. He performed extremely well in action episodes. His comedy timing is also good particularly in the scene confronting Brahmanadam and Sunil in drunken state. He also did well in emotional scenes. His dances are also good.

Amritha Rao debuted through this film as heroine. She played as heiress of lots of inherited wealth. She is up to her elements with her cute mannerisms. She got good footage in the story of the film and justified the role. She looked glamorous in songs. Overall, she is ok.

Others:Ashish Vidyarthi looked bit weird and funny in the getup of a drug dealer. He showed some ruthlessness even though his getup is funny. He did a nice job. Murali Sharma played the role of main villain and perfectly suited as to the role of disguised kidnapper. His performance towards climax is note worthy. Kota Srinivasa Rao’s role of a political leader is ok. He did well with his typical Telangana dialect. Venumadhav’s short role is bit comic relief in the first half. Sunil and Brahmanandam evoked huge laughter in the scene confronting Mahesh Babu. Malaika shook her legs through an item number in this film. Others chipped in.

TECHNICAL ASPECTSStory - Screenplay & Direction:Basic story of the film is typical revenge plot with nothing novel in it. Surender Reddy left his mark in certain scenes of the film particularly in action and chasing sequences. He is succeeded in presenting the hero in a stylish way. But he completely missed his concentration on the narration of the story. Screenplay is mediocre. Direction is good at times.

Music by Mani Sharma is ok. All songs are melodious except the item number towards climax. Background score is alright.
Visually all the songs are wonderful to watch. Photography by Sameer Reddy is terrific. The camera angles, lighting effects
and camera movements are appropriate to relevant scenes. Few scenes shot in the range of like Hollywood films. Graphics works
in the film are professional. Dialogues by Abburi Ravi are ok. Mahesh’s reckless dialogues reminded of Pokiri’s dialogues.
Editing could have been more precise in the first half. Fights by Stun Siva are excellent. Introduction fight is pretty
creative and different to regular fights. Production values by Krishna Productions and UTV Motion Pictures are of high standards.

Analysis:First half of the film is mediocre. Second half of the film is very interesting with good twists at right time. The first
half of the film is little boring with slow screenplay. Tempo rises gradually through the second half. There is very limited
comedy in the film. Entertainment values are highly missing in the entire film. Sunil, Brahmanandam and Venumadhav were
limited for only few minutes. Mahesh’s performance, Surender Reddy’s stylish taking, photography, fights and second half are
main positive aspects of the film. Lack of comedy, overload of action sequences and slow first half are negative aspects of
the film. Overall, Athidi is a run of the mill flick.