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Cast: Anushka, Sonu Sood, Sayaji Shinde, Manorama, Satyanarayana, Deepak, Subhashini, Ahuti Prasad, Chalapathi Rao, Annapoorna and others
Music: Koti
Cinematography: K K Senthil Kumar
Graphics: Rahul K Nambiar
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Director: Kodi Ramakrishna
Producer: D Shyamprasad Reddy
Rating: 4/5

The film Arundathi is a socio-fantasy that is set in two times frames, the 1920s and the present day. Director Kodi Ramakrishna comes up with a good screenplay and

producer Shyam Prasad Reddy lives up to his reputation of bringing out a lavishly produced film with astounding graphics.

Arundhati (Anushka) was born in a Royal family and is known for her daring and dashing nature. She exhorts people to thrash and kill her own brother-in-law Pasupati, who married his elder sister and abetted her to commit suicide with his anti-social activities. He is a cruel person besides a womanizer. However, Pasupati survives from the severe thrashing of people and decides to take revenge against her. He acquires tantrik skills and again visits the palace to kill her. But Pasupati falls flat at the beauty of Arundhati and thought of molesting her. With her knack and knowledge, Arundhati makes him immovable and bury him alive in a tomb. Despite going into the tomb,

Pasupati challenges that he would avenge his death by killing even if she takes a rebirth. Arundhati too returns the challenge that she would see his end. Who won the challenge? Did Arundhati takes a rebirth? How she acquired the strength to kill the all-powerful Pasupati? What was the real grudge between Arundhati and Pasupati? How Arundhati kept her vow and challenge? How each of them struggled to win the challenge? Answers to all these questions had to be seen on the screen.

Anushka is just a romantic and glamour doll. She doesn’t know what is acting and she doesn’t have any skills to perform. She somehow survived with the glamour and exposure. This is the opinion of the audiences on Anushka so far. Now those who watch Anushka in this film would have to change their opinion. Really Anushka showed her performance capabilities to the fullest extent in this movie. It is no exaggeration that no heroine showed so much acting talent in any lady-oriented character in recent times. The film would definitely remain a milestone in her career.

She gave the best of her life in this film. She showed good variation between the two characters of Jejamma and Arundhati. There is no surprise if she was selected as best heroine for her performance. Sonu Sood, who portrayed the role of Pasupati too is second to none in performance. The film would remain a big asset for his career, performance-wise. Sayaji Shinde who appeared in the role of a Muslim Phakir also gave a nice performance.

His role helped in maintaining the tempo and assisted the heroine’s role well. He did a fantastic job. Others like Deepak, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Annapurna, Jayalalitha, Ahuti Prasad and all other artistes did complete justice to their respective roles. None of the characters could be dismissed as waste in the movie.

Kodi Ramakrishna once again proved his talent in making films with the help of graphics. He had become the well-known film maker for technical movies. Especially music remained a big asset and re-recording gave life to uplift the mood in the film. Graphics are superb. Above all, editing work is excellent. None of the scene appeared boring and none of them disturbed the story and its tempo with crisp and sharp movement. All the action scenes are superb and the screenplay is excellent and not cinematic.

Especially, the film proved that the films brought out in India is second to none technically. Producer Shyamprasad Reddy produced the film with a passion and maintained good production values. Not only the storyline, but also the twists in the film are quite interesting and attracted the audiences. The production values are at a high range. The film appeared like a big hero’s movie with heavy rich scenes. It did not give the feel of watching a lady-oriented movie.

Right from the beginning of the film, the director take the audiences straight into the story without any break or any unnecessary time-pass scenes. The film starts with a nice narration. The performance of Anushka, Sonu Sood, Sayaji Shinde, the technical values attract the audiences. There is a nice twist at the interval bang and the

audiences would get a puzzled feel and show interest to go inside as soon as possible to learn about the further story. As expected there are some more twists in the film which are surprising and thrilling. The length of the film is also short and hence the audiences would get a nice feel of watching a nice and technically brilliant film. There are no side-tracks and only story was narrated without going for unnecessary comedy tracks to maintain the tempo. Definitely the film would emerge winner at Box Office 2009.

Performance:

Anushka comes up with a highly impressive performance. She looks great in the role of Jejamma, dressed up in period costumes and fully decked up in fine jewellery.

Anushka impresses equally in her role as Arundathi. Sonu Sood comes up with a very powerful performance and the impact is clearly felt. Sayaji Shinde, as a fakir is impressive. He plays a positive character for a change.

Kaikala Sathyanarayana is okay and so are Manorama, Deepak, Annapurna, Ahuthi Prasad and others. The graphics are good and the screenplay interesting. The film never goes out of track and the viewer’s interest is held tightly from start to finish.

The lack of enough entertainment values does not affect the film much and it is sure do reasonably well at the box office. 
 
Highlights Technical Work

Koti has composed excellent tracks for the movie. Even though he was prominently not heard for sometime, he has made a mark. Especially, his background musical score that stands as the main highlight for the film.

The most important aspect to be taken note of is the special effects. Bringing back the old palace to life (taking the audience to the past glory of the palace); the murders committed by Pashupathi; the climax sequences in the old palace; the scenes depicting the raise of the spirit from the dormant samadhi and creating a havoc are notable.

All this was mainly because of Senthil Kumars photography, Ashok’s creative work in construction of sets. Surely these are the key elements in the film. Rahul Nambiar’s

creativity is also good.

The dialogues ’Ammaale…bommaale…’ written by Chinthapalli Ramana, has given a caricature for the character of Pashupathi. His dialogues for Arundhathi suit the feel.

Movie Highlights

First half of the film is Superb and the second half is good.
The plus points of the film are performances, screenplay, technical values and Magnificence..

This 2009 Big HIT Movie.... Congrats to all Team  Arundhati........