Athanokkade
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| Directed by | Surender Reddy |
| Produced by | Nandamuri Janaki Ram |
| Written by | Surender Reddy |
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Kalyan Ram Sindu Tolani Ashish Vidyarthi |
| Music by | Mani Sharma |
| Cinematography | Ram Prasad |
| Edited by | Gowtham Raju |
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Release date
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7 May 2005 |
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Running time
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147 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
| Budget | 10 crores |
| Box office | 17 crores |
Athanokkade is a 2005 Telugu film which was directed by Surender Reddy. This film stars Kalyan Ram, Sindhu Tolani, and Ashish Vidyarthi. Music was scored by Mani Sharma. This film was a surprise big hit at box office, thanks to its screenplay and thrilling pace. It was remade into Tamil as Aadhi and in Kannada as Lakshmana. The Hindi version of this film is International Don.
The opening scene shows Anjali (Sindhu Tolani) sitting on a bench feeding a white pigeon by a calm ocean, and a retd. DGP police officer Shankar (Ahuti Prasad) coming and sitting by her side and exchanging pleasantries, and suddenly she whips out a knife and kills him with the help of her maternal uncle Ramachandran (Surya), saying that she has been waiting for this moment for many years.
After that, the scene shifts to Ram (Nandamuri Kalyan Ram) who lives with his foster and loving parents (Chandra Mohan and Seetha) and sister in New Delhi. He takes up a course in a Hyderabad college against his parents' wishes, while he is actually on mission to eliminate the people behind the murder of his blood family. Unable to be separated from Aadhi, his foster parents and their daughter come to Hyderabad along with him.
It is revealed that Anjali is studying in the same college as Ram and she also has her own agenda to seek revenge on her family's killers, and she is assisted by Ramachandran. Now the villain Anna (Ashish Vidyarthi), a local gangster enters and is shown to have a dispute with another person Pattabhai (Rami Reddy). To exact their revenge Anjali's uncle attempts to kill one of Anna's aide Abdullah (Raghu Babu) but fails to do so since Aadhi kills him. Naturally Anna assumes that the killer can be none other than Pattabhi and so kills him. However Ram arrives on the scene and with help from Bullet (Venu Madhav), threatens Anna telling that he was the one who killed Abdullah and that he will also kill Sada (G. V. Sudhakar Naidu), Anna's second main aide. As typical, Sada gets angry, and goes to kill Ram but fails, and Aadhi kills Abdullah while his foster parents are watching with horror. On being questioned Ram tells his story.
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