Aadhi

Infobox_Film
name = Aadhi


director = Ramana
producer = S.A. Chandrasekhar &
Shoba Chandrasekhar
writer = Surendra Reddy & Ramana
starring = Vijay,
Trisha Krishnan,
Prakash Raj
Vivek
Sai Kumar
Manivannan
Nassar
Vijayakumar
Adithya
distributor = Sooriyan Arts
released = January 15, 2006
runtime = 165 minutes

language = Tamil
imdb_id =
music = Vidyasagar
awards =
budget = Rs. 115 million ($ 2.5 million)

"Aadhi" (Tamil : ஆதி) (2006) is a Tamil film directed by Ramana produced by S.A. Chandrasekhar and Shoba Chandrasekhar starring Vijay and Trisha Krishnan in lead roles. Prakash Raj, Sai Kumar and Vivek also star in the movie in supporting roles. The film's score and soundtrack is composed by noted music composer, Vidyasagar. The movie is a remake of a Telugu hit - "Athanokkade". This is the biggest flop in Vijay's career and distributors were asking for repay like Baba.

Synopsis

The opening scene shows Anjali (Trisha Krishnan) in white, like an angel, sitting on a white bench feeding a white pigeon by a calm ocean and a police officer (Devan) coming and sitting by her side and exchanging pleasantries and suddenly she whips out a knife and kills him saying that she has been waiting for this moment for many years!

After that, the movie moves to Aadhi (Vijay) who lives with his foster parents (Manivannan & Seetha) in New Delhi. He takes up a course in a Chennai college against his parents wishes, while he is actually on mission to eliminate the people behind the murder of his blood family.

Similarly Anjali studying in the same college has her own agenda to seek revenge on her parents killers, and she is assisted by her uncle (Nassar). Soon Aadhi falls in love with Anjali, as she brings back memories of his childhood sweetheart and cousin who loved to dance in the rain.

In a shocking flashback, it is revealed that Anjali and Aadhi were from the same family. Aathi's biological father (Prakash Raj) was an honest cop who arrested one of the henchmen of a local gangster, RDX (Sai Kumar). To strike back at Aadhi's father who refuses to release his henchmen, he pays them a visit with some of his henchmen and the police officer Anjali murdered earlier in the film and murders their whole extended family. Only Anjali, her uncle and Aadhi survived the blast that annihilated their family.

Together, they combine forces to get revenge on RDX. The climax shows a battle between Aadhi and RDX, in which Aadhi kills RDX with some emotional moments.

Cast

* Vijay ... Aathi, the protagonist who is seeking revenge
* Trisha Krishnan ... Anjali, Aathi's love, who also desires to kill RDX
* Sai Kumar ... RDX, the don who murdered Aathi and Anjali's family.
* Prakash Raj ... Aathi's biological father, a police officer who is murdered by RDX
* Vivek ... Bullet
* Adithya ... Abdullah, RDX's henchman who is murdered by Aathi around interval time.
* Nassar ... Ramachandra, Aathi's uncle, one of the survivors of the brutal night, however he was killed by RDX later on
* Manivannan ... Mani, Aathi's foster father.
* Vijayakumar ... Aathi's grandfather, murdered by RDX's henchmen

Crew

* Director: Ramana
* Screenplay: Ramana
* Story: Surendra Reddy
* Dialogue: Ramana
* Producer: S.A. Chandrasekhar & Shoba Chandrasekhar
* Music: Vidyasagar
* Stunts: Rocky Rajesh
* Cinematography: S. Soundar Rajan
* Choreography: Brindha & Kalyan
* Lyrics: Palani Barathi , P.A. Vijay & Yuga Barathi
* Art Direction: Rajeevan

Soundtrack

The movie has five songs composed by Vidyasagar with lyrics by Palani Barathi , P.A. Vijay & Yuga Barathi. Many praised Vidyasagar for his melodious tunes in the movie.

* Iruvar Vazhvum sung by Karthik & Kalyani* Ennai Konjam sung by Hariharan & Sujatha
* Athi Athikka sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam & Sadhana Sargam
* Yeai Durai sung by Saindhavi & Tippu
* Lealakku Lealakku sung by Kay Kay & Sujatha

The movie includes two more songs not included in the audio cassette which are:

* Aathi sung by Tippu
* Olli Olli Iduppe sung by Karthik & Anuradha Sriram.

[http://www.raaga.com/channels/tamil/movie/T0000777.html Click here to be redirected to Raaga.com to listen to the songs in "Aathi"]

Box Office

* The movie was considered a box-office flop and many felt it ended Vijay's success streak until the release of Pokkiri.
* The movie was supposed to be released on Pongal (January 14), but ended up releasing a day after for undisclosed reasons. [http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=14120198]

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