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.
