Arundhati

Name: Arundhati

Genre: Fantasy/Mystery/Thriller

Cast: Anushka Shetty, Sonu Sood, Sayaji Shinde, Kodi Ramakrishna (Director)

Synopsis: Arundhati (Anushka Shetty) who is the great granddaughter of the King of Gadwal, Mahasamsthan visits her native village before her marriage. Arundhati is the first female child born in the family after her great grandmother. Her grandfather treats Arundhati with full respects and accepts her wishes fully. While around the village she receives a call from her fiancé Rahul that he is in Fort of Gandwal wanted her to come to the fort to meet him. When Arundhati came to the fort she faces a lot of horror and got scared. A man outside the fort told her she has to get out here as quickly as possible as it is not safe for her. When she came home in the village she came to know the whole story from her aged maid servant Chandramma around the story of Jejjamma(Anushka Shetty) who is the same look alike as her great granddaughter. Chandramma tells Arundhati about the story of Jejjamma which is not having a happy ending. Jejjamma was expert in painting, dancing and fighting skills. She had an elder sister which was married to a person called Pashupati (Sonu Sood) who likes woman, wants to rape them and who ever objects to him, he kills her. When Jejjamma was young, she saw that her blind teacher was raped by Pashupati and killed her. She order that Pashupati should be beaten to death but her father fears that this will further make her sister’s life worse so he ordered not to obeyed that order. But chaos did happen in the fort and seeing all this Jejjamma’s elder sister commit suicide. Hearing Jejjamma’s eleder sister death people were furious and angry and thrashed Pashupati, tied him to the horse and got so much injured that people believed that Pashupati is dead but he was saved by Aghoris (people performing dark arts). After few years he back to the village to have his revenge.

He tries to use Aghoris power to kill innocent people which usually Aghoris don’t do and enter the fort on the marriage day of Jejjamma. Seeing Jejjamma now a young teen Pashupati asks her to dance and make him feel good. Jejjamma starts dancing but performed a special dance which was full of martial arts which her dead teacher taught her and that took Pashupati by surprise and cuts his tongue and pins his hands and later a chandelier fell on him making him completely unmovable. She wants to kill Pashupati but her priest tell her not kill otherwise he will become evil spirit and will haunt everyone. She buried him alive in that fort where he was injured and made a tomb around that with mantras (spells) inscribed on that which will contain him there for the rest of the life. After making the tomb Jejjamma goes to Aghoris for help. They tell her that Pashupati can’t be killed by her as of now in her life and she has to die for that she will be born again and at that time she will able to kill him. When Jejjamma will die through her bones a Dagger will be made with chant of the Mantras inscribed on it and only through that dagger he will be called once it for all. After a this revelation a person who has recently lost his wife hears her sound in mind and being possessed comes in the fort and breaks the tomb which results in freeing of Pashupati’s evil spirit. Anwar (Sayaji Shinde) tells Arundhati that she is the reincarnation of Jejjamma and has to fight Pashupati. She also came to know that there was a dagger made by Jejjamma bones which could kill Pashupati forever. Mean while Rahul received a distress call from Arundhati and immediately came to meet her but he meet Pashupati. Arundhati seeing this went to save Rahul in the room but Pashupati was there alone and stabs Arundhati from behind. He injured her.

 After being recovered she sends her family away from village and goes to Anwar’s place. Both of them went to find that dagger but Anwar meet with the accident and Arundhati have to go back without dagger to the fort to give herself to Pashupati so rest of family members could be saved. Anwar somehow survives the accident and was told by the priest that the Dagger should be first soaked with her blood and only after that Pashupati can be killed. Arundhati in the fort tries some efforts to kill Pashupati but all in vain. Anwar reaches the fort with that dagger with him. Pashupati seeing this tries to kill Anwar and somehow killed and Anwar wasn’t able to tell Arundhati the secret of Dagger. In the end when seeing no way out and escape the shame of rape and killed by Pashupati and redeem her honor she kills herself with the dagger but the moment dagger soaked her blood it went flashing light which boosted her morale and finally she kills Pashupati finally.

Review: It’s a Tollywood movie full of mind blowing performance of Anushka Shetty and Sonu Sood. This type of movie is seen after a very long time full of haunting, thrills and the story fully commendable. Direction of the movie was awesome and so do was the screenplay and cinematography. Dialogue delivery was very good. But the performance of Anushka Shetty in movie was somewhat to the other levels, absolutely brilliant and same could be said for Sonu Sood. The movie has some scenes which will make you thrilled and chilled upto a large extent. Anushka Shetty here shows that movies made on women based (that is focus of the movie is mostly the actress) can be very successful. Movie most of the time didn’t go side tracked even once hold the audience together for all the time which was very good. What makes this movie a great one is all the segments of the movie were damn good starts from Direction, story, cinematography to the special effects in the movie and the performances of Anushka, everything was at its level best which makes movie all together a great movie and “Arundhati” has all that which it a great and a must watch for everyone.

   

Stars given: 4.5 out of 5.