Aathi

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Aathi
Aathi poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Ramana
Written byRamana
Story by Surender Reddy
Based on Athanokkade (Telugu)
Produced by S. A. Chandrasekhar
Shoba Chandrasekhar
Starring Vijay
Trisha
Prakash Raj
Sai Kumar
Nassar
Cinematography Soundarrajan
Edited by Suresh Urs
Music by Vidyasagar
Production
company
Release date
  • 15 January 2006 (2006-01-15)
Running time
167 minutes [1]
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Aathi ( pronunciation ⓘ ) is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language action film, directed by Ramana and produced by S. A. Chandrasekhar. Starring Vijay and Trisha, it is a remake of the 2005 Telugu film Athanokkade . [2]

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Aathi released on 15 January 2006. It received mixed reviews, and declared average grosser at box office end of its theatrical run. [3] [4]

Plot

The film starts with Anjali sitting on a bench in Rameswaram feeding a white pigeon by a calm ocean. A retired police officer Shankar comes and sits on the bench by her side, and they exchange pleasantries. Suddenly, she whips out a knife and kills him with the help of her maternal uncle Ramachandran, while saying that she has been waiting for this moment for many years. She then comes back to Chennai with Ramachandran to attend college.

After that, the scene shifts to Aathi, who lives in New Delhi with his family consisting of his parents Mani and Lakshmi, who are both loving to him and his sister. He takes up a course in a college in Chennai against his parents' wishes. Unable to be separated from Aathi, his family comes to Chennai along with him.

It is revealed that Anjali is studying in the same college as Aathi, and she has her own agenda to seek revenge on her family's killers, and she is assisted by Ramachandran. Meanwhile, RDX, a local gangster, enters and is shown to have a dispute with Pattabhi. To exact their revenge, Ramachandran attempts to kill Sadha, one of RDX's henchmen but fails to do so since Aathi kills Sadha with a gun he was armed with. At first naturally, RDX assumes the killer can be none other than Pattabhi, so he kills him. However, Aathi arrives on the scene with help from Bullet, his college classmate who is a comical rowdy. Aathi threatens RDX saying that he was the one who killed Sadha and that he will also kill Abdullah. As typical and usual, Abdullah gets angry and goes to kill Aathi but fails, and Aathi beheads Abdullah, while his family witnesses this act with horror. Soon it is revealed that Aathi is their adopted son and he is actually there on a personal mission to eliminate the people behind the murder of his biological family. Aathi reveals his flashback to them.

Aathi's biological father was an honest cop who arrested one of RDX's henchmen. It is revealed that Anjali and Aadhi are from the same family as Aathi's father is Anjali's maternal uncle. RDX pays Aathi's house a visit and asks his grandfather to let his henchmen go. When Aathi's grandfather refuses, RDX threatens them, only to find knives being held at him by Aathi and his cousins. Aathi's father arrives and arrests RDX. Infuriated, he pays them a visit with some of his henchmen and Shankar. Together, they murder the whole extended family. Only Anjali, Ramachandran, and Aathi survived the blast that annihilated their family. After the house is blown up by RDX, Aadhi escapes and is taken in by a couple who later become his adopted parents.

On finding out his past, Aathi's adoptive parents request him to come back to New Delhi, but he refuses. He then takes them to the railway station but is nearly ambushed by RDX's men. He succeeds in defeating them in a fight and meets RDX, warning him to bring his brother Robert from Dubai, whom he promises to kill. Soon, Robert arrives, and in revenge, kills Ramachandran, while challenging Aathi to meet him at RDX's place. Aathi came after finding out that RDX kidnapped Anjali and held her hostage by his henchmen in the library of their college, which happens to be the old house that Aathi, Anjali, and their family lived in. Aathi escapes after killing Robert with his own gun. RDX's men hold Anjali hostage, but she is saved by Bullet and the other students in the college. In a thrilling climax, Aathi kills RDX and is shown to be leaving and reuniting with Anjali, the only one left in his family.

Cast

Production

Development

Chandrasekhar bought the remake rights of Telugu film Athanokkade (2005) to make it in Tamil with his son Vijay. [5] The film was produced by him under Suriyan Arts. [6] He was credited as S. A. Chandrasekhara in title credits. [7] Ramana, who earlier worked with Vijay in Thirumalai (2003) was selected to direct this film. Trisha was chosen to be the lead actress pairing with Vijay for third time after Ghilli (2004) and Thirupaachi (2005). Saikumar was chosen to portray the antagonist while Prakash Raj, Vivek, Naasar, Seetha and Manivannan were selected to portray supporting roles.

Filming

The song picturisation with a set costing ₹ 40 lakh was shot with around 50 dancers. [5] The scenes with Trisha were the first to be filmed during the film's launch. The sets of police station, palatial house and hospital were built at Kushal Das gardens. [8] The song "Durra durranu" was shot at Araku Valley. [9] The climax was shot at Hyderabad. [10] Another song was shot at Switzerland. Most of the filming was held at Chennai, Gingee, Vishakapatnam and Hyderabad. [11]

Music

Aadhi
Soundtrack album by
Vidyasagar
Released2006
Genre Soundtrack
Label Five Star Audio
Producer Vidyasagar
Vidyasagar chronology
Paramasivan
(2006)		Aadhi
(2006)		 Mozhi
(2007)

The film has five songs composed by Vidyasagar. [12] [13] The audio was launched at Green Park Hotel on 22 December 2005. [14]

Song titleSingersLyrics
"Olli Olli Iduppe" Karthik, Anuradha Sriram P. Vijay
"Ennai Konja Konja" Hariharan, Sujatha Mohan Yugabharathi
"Athi Athikka" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Sadhana Sargam P. Vijay
"Yea Duraa" Saindhavi, Tippu
"Lealakku Lealakku" KK, Sujatha Mohan

The film includes two more songs not included in the audio soundtrack:

Release

The film released on 15 January 2006. The satellite rights of the film were sold to Kalaignar TV for ₹ 11 crore. Theatrical rights for Tamil Nadu were sold for ₹17 crore and it collected ₹25 crore. [15] [16] The film didn't perform as well as expected, which Sify.com attributed to the film not being released on Pongal Day. [4] The film released alongside Silambarasan's Saravana and Ajith Kumar's Paramasivan . [17]

Despite being remade from Telugu, Aathi was dubbed and released in Telugu as Nenera Aadhi. [18] The film was dubbed in Hindi as Aadhi Narayan by Eagle Movies in YouTube. [19]

Reception

Ananda Vikatan rated the film 38 out of 100. [20] [21] Indiaglitz wrote "Director Ramana has faithfully stuck to the Telugu original and come up with a gritty entertainer". [22] Chennai Online wrote "It's yet another fight-dance-romance formula from Vijay, this one being the remake of the Telugu hit 'Athanokkade'. But unlike his earlier films, which were either enjoyable or at least tolerable, this one tries one's patience as one goes through the tiring, monotonous routine of watching the angst-ridden hero fight against yet another new set of enemies and impossible odds". [23] Lajjavathi of Kalki wrote despite not having an intro song it was still an routine Vijay film and felt many characters spoke too slowly and Saikumar was referred as "almost Vijay's PRO" for praising him throughout the film and found Prakash Raj and Vivek to be criminally underused. [24]

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