Athidhi (film)

Athidhi (Atithi)
Directed by	Surender Reddy
Produced by	Ronnie Screwvala Siddharth Roy Kapoor Ramesh Babu
Written by	Vakkantham Vamsi
Story by	Surender Reddy
Starring	Mahesh Babu Amrita Rao Ashish Vidyarthi Murali Sharma Kota Srinivasa Rao Nassar
Narrated by	Abburi Ravi
Music by	Mani Sharma
Cinematography	Sameer Reddy
Edited by	Gowtham Raju
Production company	UTV Motion Pictures Krishna Pictures Private Limited
Distributed by	UTV Motion Pictures
Release date	19 October 2007
Running time	172 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	₹20 crore (US$3.1 million)
Box office	₹35 crore (US$5.4 million)

Athidhi or Atithi (English: Guest) is a 2007 Telugu action thriller film starring Mahesh Babu and Amrita Rao, directed by Surender Reddy and produced by G. Ramesh Babu, brother of Mahesh Babu, under their banner Krishna Pictures Private Limited. It was released on 18 October 2007. It was dubbed into Tamil as Thani Kaattu Raja, and into Hindi as International Khiladi:The Iron Man. Athidi was released with 500 prints in 820 theaters all over the world.Athidi collected a share of ₹28 crore (US$4.3 million) in its lifetime.Athidi finished 35 days in 400 centres successfully. It grossed ₹35 crore (US$5.4 million) in four weeks.

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.