Athanokkade

<p>Anjali and her maternal uncle Ramachandran kills Bhavani Shankar, a retired , by pretending to feed food for white pigeons in a beach. Meanwhile, Ram, who lives with his loving adopted parents and sister in , takes up a course at a college in despite his parents’s wishes. Anjali, who is also studying in the same college as Ram, has her own agenda to exact vengeance against Anna, a local gangster, for her family’s death. Ramachandran attempts to kill Anna’s aide Abdullah, but Ram kills Abdullah and threatens Anna that he will kill Sada, Anna’s second main aide. An enraged Sada goes to kill Ram, but Ram kills Sada. Ram’s family witnesses this and are horrified by his actions. Ram reveals his past to his foster parents. : Ram’s real father is an honest in Hyderabad. Ram’s father arrests one of Anna’s henchmen. It is revealed that Anjali and Ram are from the same family as Anjali’s father is Ram’s father’s brother-in-law. Anna meets Ram’s grandfather and threatens him to release his henchmen, but Ram’s grandfather refuses and Anna gets arrested. An infuriated Anna, along with his henchmen and Bhavani Shankar, finish the whole family. Anjali, Ramachandran and Ram are the main survivors of the attack. Ram escapes and is taken by his foster parents. Anjali feels that one of her family members is alive as someone (who is revealed to be Ram) keeps a flower on the statue of their former house, which is now a library. Ram’s foster parents request Ram to come back, but he refuses and takes them to the railway station. Ram is nearly ambushed by Anna’s henchmen, but he defeats them and meets Anna, warning him to bring his brother from . Anna arrives and kills Ramachandran before challenging Ram to meet him at his brother’s place. Ram, after learning that Anna has Anjali kept under hostage, escapes after killing Anna’s brother. Ram kills Anna and reunites with Anjali and his foster parents. The music was composed by and released by . The song “Chita Pata” is based on “Dhoom Thanakkadi” from the Malayalam film . B. Anuradha of opined that “All in all, this is a lavish masala film is worth watching”. Jeevi of said that “On a whole, is a commendable effort by the debutant director Surendar and debutant producer Kalyanram Nandamuri”. A critic from wrote that “On the whole, a film worth a watch”. The film was released with 72 prints initially and later 24 prints were added. The film became a commercial success. It ran for 50 days in 80 centres and crossed 100 days in 46 centres in . The film was remade in as (2006) and in as (2016). The film was set to be remade in Hindi as , but the film was never released. It was later dubbed in as .</p>