Ghajini

Name: Ghajini

Genre: Action/Drama/Mystery/Romance/Thriller

Cast: Aamir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan, Pradeep Rawat, A.R.Murugadoss (Director)

Synopsis: Sunita (Jiah Khan) is a college going medical student who is researching for a projecting on human brains in her class. Suddenly he came across a case of Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan). Seeing this case she became curious to take up the case but was rejected by the teacher because it is a case of criminal investigation. She asked about the case by her teacher and came to know that Sanjay has a disease called anterograde amnesia. Sunita decides to investigate things by herself. She came to know Sanjay loses his memory within 15 mintues and doesn’t remember anything after that. He uses photographs, notes and tattoos on his body to remember things and his only mission is to avenge the death of his lover Kalpana (Asin).  He starts killing people in a systematic manner to reach to his final target Ghajini whom he remembers his lover Kalpana’s last words. Ghajini (Pradeep Rawat) is a reputed industrialist of the city.

Police inspector named Arjun who was investigating the case of these murders tried to track down Sanjay and finally finds him and knocked him unconscious. He discovered two diaries from Sanjay’s home and finally in those diaries it was his past. Movie went in the flashback where Sanjay was the chairman of Air voice mobile company. He after a certain events came across a girl name Kalpana who is working in a small advertisement agency. First she used Sanjay name just for fun with her seeing that she will be given more importance by her advertisement agency but Sanjay after seeing her innocence and honesty doesn’t say anything to him and meets her with a new name called Sachin and later on falls in love with her. At the New Years Eve he proposed to Kalpana and Kalpana asks Sachin to wait for her reply next morning and the first diary ends there. Soon Sanjay woke up and and Arjun asks him that what happened the next day. Sanjay attacks him and ties in the cabinet. Sunita arrives there and sees that the door was open and went in there. Rescues the inspector but soon sees Sanjay there went out of there. Sunita in that hurry has taken both the diaries of Sanjay from his flat.

Sunita came to know that Sanjay will kill Ghajini and went to Ghajini and warns him that Sanjay is the man is trying to kill him. Ghajini also came to remember about Sanjay Singhania. Ghajini and his men went into Sanjay flats and destroyed all maps, snaps and notes in that flat so that he should not be able to recover his memory of killing him at all. At night, Sunita starts reading Sanjay’s second diary. She came to know that Kalpana has accepted Sanjay’s love proposal. Sanjay due to some emergency meeting has to go abroad so he tells Kalpana as Sachin a different story. Kalpana too has to go on an assignment but when she was travelling in train she find 25 children were trafficking and saved them and finds that Ghajini is the master. Ghajini came to know about this broke into Kalpana’s home. Kalpana too came to know about this that Ghajini and his men will try to kill her. Suddenly Sanjay too came there but Kalpana asks him to go from there. Later Ghajini hurts Kalpana very badly. Sanjay too came back to see Kalpana as he believes something is wrong. Ghajini hits Sanjay on his head very badly with an iron Rod and in his presence kills Kalpana by hitting her with iron rod again and again. Kalpana during her dying moments said “Ghajini” in Sanjay’s ears.

Now Sunita has been aware of truth of Sanjay went to the hospital where he was kept and told whole story to him. Being in rage after listening to Sunita asks Sunita to help him in tracking down Ghajini and rest he will take care himself. Both of them tracked Ghajini and Sanjay starts fighting Ghajini’s henchmen with full force and full strength. When he was able to pin Ghajini down he suddenly forgets his memory and forgets who Ghajini is. Seeing this as an opportunity he stabs Sanjay from behind. Later he hits Sunita with iron rod and taunts Sanjay that he will make him re-experience Kalpana’s death again by killing Sunita. Sanjay overpowers everything his pain, memory and takes down Ghajini and in the kills him the very same way he killed Kalpana.

In the end, Sanjay was in an Orphanage where Sunita came their giving him a gift and footprints of Sanjay and Kalpana to make their bonding again. Sanjay sees Kalpana at his side and Finally Sanjay finds peace.

Review: A good remake made by A.R.Murugadoss of his own Tamil movie of the same name Ghajini. Most of the remakes of the movies are not that much effective and good this time it’s an altogether a different story. Performance of Aamir khan was all together at a different level. Asin making Bollywood debut makes it with ease and comfort. Performance of Jiah Khan and Pradeep Rawat were also good. Music and songs of the movie were great and so can be said for some of the action sequences. Most of the movie was almost the same as Tamil remake of Ghajini whom Murugadoss has directed previously so in this he hasn’t made any new creativity. Also the core idea has been taken from English movie Memento. As a whole, movie is very good to watch full of entertainment, thriller with a mind blowing performance of Aamir Khan and Asin.

Stars given: 3.5 out of 5.

Ghayal (1990)

Name: Ghayal

Genre: Action/Crime

Cast: Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Rajkumar Santoshi (Director)

Synopsis: Ajay Mehra (Sunny Deol) lives with his brother Ashok Mehra and his sister in law Indu in Bombay (now Mumbai). He is an amateur boxer who is in love with a girl named Varsha (Meenakshi Sheshadri). Ashok is a businessman who is facing problems regarding his business but he tells some of his problems with his wife but doesn’t share anything with his brother. His brother is on a boxing training camp at Banglore. Ashok when utmost frustrated talks to his brother but when he was about tell the problem phone got cut. When he came back, he came to that his brother is missing. He tries to inquire about the same but all in vain. He went to police for complaint but nothing was happening. He even went to Balawant Rai’s PA for asking about his brother but everyone was giving vague answers. All this leads to utter frustration. Later he came across to a drunkard who promises to reveals secrets about his brother if he gave him money and he revealed the secret. He told Ajay that he know his brother. He suffered some losses in business and Balwant Rai (Amrish Puri) came to his rescue and cleared all his debts. In lieu of that he became his partner and started illegal businesses under this partnership and this is his way of doing illegal activities framing honest men and Ashok was in tension due to this reason. He tries to stop Balwant Rai but all in vain but Balwant Rai threatens him with grave consequences if he do so. He said that he had collected evidences against Balwant Rai and if he has not given the evidence to Balwant Rai then he might be alive but if he had give them then he probably might be dead. Hearing this Ajay straight went to Balwant Rai and asked him to return his brother otherwise he will not spare him.

Later Balwant Rai called Ajay and told him to save his brother if he can. Ajay reached to the spot where Balwant called him to arrive and found that his brother is dead. Later police came there and arrest Ajay. They framed Ajay in killing of his own brother as he had illicit relationship with his sister-in-law. Ajay was sent to jail and his sister in law couldn’t bear this trauma and commits suicide. Ajay after telling his whole story to his companions become friends and they told him that they will help Ajay in his revenge. After forming a plot for escape all of them escaped from the Jail. One by one he started killing all the people who had framed him in that murder charge. Balwant Rai also came to know that Ajay had escaped has well. Commissioner of police also came to know about some people has escaped from jail but when he sees their snaps he remember that one of them is Ajay who had came to him as well for help for looking for his brother but he didn’t helped him as well. Police started looking and killing for Ajay and his men and Ajay was killing those who framed him in wrong murder charges. When only Balwant Rai was left alive, Ajay told him that he will kill him in next 24 hours. Being in frustration Balwant Rai came to know that Varsha is Ajay’s girlfriend and Kidnaps her. Ajay in rage went to Balwant Rai’s area and completely destroys that. Meanwhile police officer who is in charge of this case came to know it not the Ajay who is wrong but is the Balwant Rai and the wrong system due to which Ajay has taken this route as Balwant Rai’s PA has given a written statement for the same and asks commissioner why has this happened. Commissioner promises him that he will take action against Balwant Rai and bring him to court but first he has to stop Ajay to kill Balwant Rai so that crime can’t be commited.

On other side, Ajay was following Balwant Rai’s with full force and they they started fighting in an Amusement park. Police arrived there and stopped Ajay killing Balwant Rai but Ajay being assisted by Varsha, finally kills Balwant Rai. In the end, Ajay went out of that amusement park where people were clapping for him.

Review: One of the great movies made by Rajkumar Santoshi. Absolutely brilliant. Direction was awesome. Performances of Sunny Deol and Amrish Puri were at level best. It’s like is just made alive every time anyone will see it. It moved with a great pace and all the time movie remained focused on its core story and didn’t went off track even at once. Cinematography was good and so were dialogues. Performances of other cast like Meenashi Sheshadri, Om Puri, Raj Babbar etc were also good and fully focused to movie core story. It’s a movie with jam packed action and full of entertainment and is a must watch for everyone and specially for those who is a diehard fan of Sunny Deol. 

  

Stars given: 4.5 out of 5 

Brindavanam

Name: Brindavanam

Genre: Action/Comedy/Drama/Romance

Cast: NTR Jr., Kajal Aggarwal, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Prakash Raj, Vamsi Paidipally (Director)

Synopsis: Krishna/Krish (NTR Jr.) is the son of a billionaire businessman. His girlfriend Indu (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) has a friend name Bhoomi (Kajal Aggarwal). Indu tells Krish her friend Bhoomi’s problem that her father Bhanu Prasad wants Bhoomi to marry her cousin suitor who is a goon and a rowdy whom Bhoomi doesn’t like at all and doesn’t want to marry him. Her grandfather tells Bhanu Parsad that Bhoomi has fallen in love with a guy in the city so that Bhoomi doesn’t have to marry that cousin rowdy. Her father tells he wants Bhoomi to bring her boyfriend to the village where he wants to meet him. Indu convinces Krish to become Bhoomi’s boyfriend as if he will go then he will make the thing right she is confident of that and to which Krish agrees.

When Bhoomi and Krish were going to Bhoomi’s village, Bhoomi tells Krish about every family member in her family and what type of person he or she is. When Krish reaches Bhoomi’s home he sees that her uncles’ are lazy guys and actual bonding in the family is missing. He also meets her grandfather who had actually made this plan and Krish told him too he will make the things right. He tries to change her uncles’ and rest of her family members and wins their hearts as well. Bhoomi’s grandfather told Krish that Bhanu Prasad and Sivudu whom he met when he was coming to Bhoomi’s village are step brothers and are rivals to each other from last 25 years. Druga Prasad married second time against the wishes of his child Bhanu and from his second wife Sivudu was born. Some people for their own gains tried to convince Bhanu that Sivudu was not good for him and he should break relations with him. So Durga Prasad lives six months Bhanu and other six months with Sivudu. Krish tells Druga Prasad he will unite both Bhanu and Sivudu and ultimately he succeeds.

After some incidents in the village Bhanu starts to get impress from Krish and accepts their relationship. Now seeing this both Krish and Bhoomi starts getting worried but finally they decided to tell the whole truth to Bhoomi’s father Bhanu Prasad. In the home Bhanu Prasad was sitting and talking to Bhoomi’s cousin suitor and his uncle that the marriage with Bhoomi is not possible now as Bhoomi like some other person and Bhanu too like him very much. Hearing this her cousin suitor becomes very angry and tells Bhanu that he will get Bhoomi at every cost and he don’t care about you or anyone and caught Bhanu’s collar but Krish came there fights with him and warns him never to come here again and seeing this Bhanu declares that Krish will be the groom for her daughter Bhoomi and also he is going to meet his brother and bring him back with him and successfully does that.

Further it was revealed that during a function that Indu is Sivudu’s daughter and both Bhoomi and Krish got shocked to see that. Sivudu asks Indu to bring her boyfriend to the village but Indu tells her father that her boyfriend had ditched him and had gone away. Hearing this Indu’s father told his men to bring Indu’s boyfriend to him. Upon hearing that her boyfriend is not there he asks his men to bring his parents to him. Bhanu also asks Krish to bring his parents to him so that their marriage date can be fixed. Seeing the things got mixed up Indu tells Krish he should bring his foster parents to which Krish agrees. Bhoomi’s rowdy cousin suitor men try to abduct Bhoomi but Krish rescues them. Krish bring his foster parents to meet them to Bhanu. Problem starts when Sivudu’s men bring real Krish’s parents in home and when they saw Krish there everyone was shocked. Krish tells them the whole situation and they all agreed to him.

Bhanu Prasad starts their engagement but now seeing everyone is happy Bhoomi starts falling in love with Krish too. Indu also starts realizing that. Mad and angry Bhoomi’s rowdy cousin suitor came to know about the real identity of Krish and their relationship tells Sivudu everything. He reveals the same to his step brother Bhanu and both starts beating Krish. Soon Durga Prasad intervened and told both of them that it was his plan to bring Krish and he was not at all lover of Bhoomi but to save Bhoomi from that Rowdy suitor. Even after the hardships given by both of them but he stuck here makes everyone happy and everyone has seen the results. Everyone is happy and together. He didn’t cheat Indu and it was Indu infact who had sent Krish as Bhoomi’s lover and also that now Bhoomi too loves him a lot. Suddenly they saw that Bhoomi’s rowdy suitor has taken Bhoomi forcefully with him. Bhanu tells Krish that she is yours and he alone have to save her. Krish got away chased them and beats the hell out of that rowdy suitor and saves Bhoomi.

Krish in the end in temple has to decide to whom he should marry and the elders let the decision leave the three of them that is Krish, Bhoomi and Indu. Krish starts praying to Lord Krishna and asks them to give him a solution. Lord Krishna appears and tells Krish it all part of life and suddenly Lord Krishna disappears.

Review: It’s a good movie made by Vamsi Paidipally. Direction was good by Vamsi. Performance of NTR Jr. was nice and he all together played a different role with ease. Most of the focus of the movie was NTR Jr. and Kajal Aggarwal. Kajal performance in movie was average and same can be said Samantha although the both of them look charming and gorgeous but Kajal role in the movie was more as compared to Samantha which makes him the lead actress too. Comedy scenes in the movies were hilarious and good. But dialogues in the movie were very good. Villain segment of the movie wasn’t effective at all and was even below average. Some of songs in the movie were really good. Overall it is a family movie and good to watch.

Stars given: 3 out of 5.

A Beautiful Mind

Name: A Beautiful Mind

Genre: Biography/Drama

Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed. Harris, Ron Howard (Director)

Synopsis: John Nash (Russell Crowe) arrives at Princeton University.  He is recipient of the prestigious Carnegie Scholarship for Mathematics. Nash meets a group of brilliant and promising graduate students of Math and Science which includes Richard, Ainsley and Bender. He meets a man name Charles Herman a literature student who was his roommate and their friendship begins. Nash wants to develop an original idea for his thesis and only after that he wants to publish it as he was under immense pressure to publish it. His inspiration comes at a bar where Nash and his fellow friends tried to approach a woman to have a conversation. Nash says that a cooperative approach will lead to better chances to have a success later that individuality and this leads to the idea of governing dynamics which later on he develops and publishes. After this conclusion he was offered an appointment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with Sol and Bender. After few years teaching in MIT, Nash falls in love with his Alicia Larde (Jennifer Connelly) and after some time they marry each other.

Nash was invited to crack the encrypted telecommunication of enemy and he was able to break the code mentally which astonishes the other code breakers present there. Seeing that, he was given new assignment by new supervisor William Parcher (Ed. Harris) of US department of Defense to look for new patterns in various newspapers and magazines to crush the Soviet plot. As Nash was being bored of his regular teaching in MIT he sees this very interested and becomes obsessive in finding the patterns. As he continues his work and whenever he tries put his results in an envelope and put up in the mailbox as told of William he believes someone is following him. Later on, Nash witnessed a shootout William and Soviet agents and seeing this he fears for his life but William pressures Nash that he should stay on and complete his assignment. At a guest lecture at Harvard University Nash tried to flee from there from Dr. Rosen and foreign agents. He punched Rosen and was caught and was forcibly taken to psychiatric facility. Rosen meets Alicia and tells her about the whole story and also that William, Charles and rest of the men as Nash is saying is only his imagination and not in reality. Alicia investigates the documents in the mailbox as told by Nash but all the documents were there and no one has taken or even opened the documents.

Later Nash was given shock therapy and after some time he was released. Nash starts getting frustrated from the medicine he was taking and suddenly stops taking that. This re-imagination starts again and he meets Parcher. Nash was bathing his infant son but in an incident he endangers his infant son and throws his wife Alicia away accidentally. Alicia in fear walks away from home with his child. Nash comes in front of Alicia’s car and tell her that “She never gets old” as he was referring this to Marcee. She looks the same age as he meets her years ago and admitted to Alicia that these are hallucinations after all. Both of them meet Dr. Rosen but Nash decided not take his medication and decided to deal with these hallucinations in his own way. Alicia supported him all the time. Nash Later on went to Princeton University he meets his old friend Martin Hansen, who is now Head of Mathematics department to work in and out of the library. Later on Nash taken a hold on himself and learns how to ignore those hallucinations of Charles, Marcee and William. He was also given permission to teach in the university again.

Nash was honored by his fellow professors for great contribution in Game theory which results in winning Noble Prize for Economics. After receiving the noble prize in Stockholm and when he was leaving the auditorium he sees Marcee, Charles and Parcher. Nash stopped and seeing that Alicia asks him that what’s wrong to which he replied “nothing” and both moved went out of auditorium.

Review: One of the beautiful crafted movies made by Ron Howard and one of beautiful performances given by Russell Crowe. How the biography was filmed on John Nash was mind blowing. Performance of the rest of crew including Jennifer Connelly, Ed. Harris and others were good. The movie went on with a steady pace and during the whole movie focus each and every aspect of the movie which includes romance, drama and how mathematics was involves in the movie was absolutely brilliant. This was the reason that the movie had won 4 Oscars and also received other awards as well. Hats off  Ron Howard, Russell Crowe and rest of the crew.

 Stars given: 4.5 out of 5. 

Cast Away

Name: Cast Away

Genre: Adventure/Drama

Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Robert Zemeckis (Director)

Synopsis: Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a system analyst who works for Federal Express (FedEx) to solve their productivity problems. He lives with his girl friend Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt) with whom he had a long term relationship. On night of Christmas Eve Chuck was called by the company to resolve some problems in Malaysia. When going to Malaysia the plane in which he was travelling got caught by a storm and crashed it in Pacific Ocean. But somehow chuck was able to survive that crash and got hold of a life raft. After clinging to that he was left unconscious, floated the whole night in that raft and next morning find himself on an uninhabited island. Many FedEx packages were also there which got scattered during the accident and also find the body of the pilot of the plane and later he buried him there. He tried many times with his efforts and resources available to him to make a raft again and move from their but wasn’t able to clear the surf.

He finds some useful items in that FedEx packages and when he searched for food, shelter etc. He left one package unopened. Chuck now realizes that he has to make fire and starts making that but during his few attempts he wounded his hand and in anger he throws some objects from FedEx packages into the water and one of them was a Wilson sports Volleyball which later he make a face on that ball naming it Wilson and starts talking to him. Four years have passed till that crash and now Chuck is very much thinner, weaker and had lot of long hair. Now he is expert in catching fish and making fire. He remembers her girl friend every single moment all the time during these four years. He also talks very frequently to Wilson (the face on Volleyball). Chuck now again decides to make a raft to cross the turf again. He built a life raft with proper focus and attention in building that raft and wants to wait for the best conditions to cross the powerful surf’s of the ocean. During the optimal conditions he boarded the raft to cross the surf. After some time, storm appears on the sea and tears his raft to pieces leaving him lonely again with all hopes gone. When he was unconscious floating on the river a nearby cargo ship spotted him and saved him.

After returning to home, Chuck came to know that he has been pronounced dead and all his family, friends has made his funeral also Kelly has been married to Chuck’s dentist and has a daughter too. On initial stages Chuck doesn’t have the want to meet Kelly for not waiting for her but her husband told Chuck that she waited for him for quite some time and it can be helped as she was alone and needed some support. Chuck finally meets Kelly. They shared their feelings but they both new that had to move their separate ways as it will not be possible to stay together as Kelly has some responsibilities towards her family too. Chuck returns to the address to deliver the last package which he didn’t opened. The house was empty so he leaves the package there and writes a note that this package saved his life. As he moved back a woman came there and explain to him that where each of the cross roads leads too. Chuck notice that the woman in the pickup truck has written the same lines as it was written on the FedEx left package Chuck now starts looking towards each road and after wards starts looking towards the truck of the woman.   

      

Review: It is one of the most good drama type movies of the Hollywood where Tom Hanks has given one of his life time performances in the movie. The whole movie was solely based on the acting of Tom Hanks and he had kept the expectation pretty brilliantly. Screenplay and the movie were good and so do was the cinematography and the story part and for that he was also nominated for many awards and also won quite few of them. It is purely dramatically type of film where he has given his heart out in that character. Such movies are rarely made and are very much appreciated although the ending of the movie was a little low to the standards maintained by the movie all the time but Hat’s off to Tom Hanks. Also to Robert for such a direction that captures each and every emotion of the movie beautifully.

Stars given: 3.5 out of 5

1408

Name: 1408

Genre: Horror/Mystery

Cast: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Mikael Hafstrom (Director)

Synopsis: Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is an unpopular and not so well going author. He wants to write a book on supernatural events although he doesn’t believe in that after the death of his daughter Katie recently. He receives an anonymous post card written on it “don’t enter 1408” from the Dolphin, a hotel in New York City. Being enthusiastic Mike forces the hotel to have a booking of that room. Hotel manager Gerald Olin (Samuel L. Jackson) persuade him not to book and go in that room as 56 people has died in that room from few years and no one stayed alive more than 1 hour in that room. But Mike insisted in taking that room as he does not believe in paranormal activity. When he went into that room, he records in his mini cassette about the whole appearance of the room like dull appearance, shabby type of looks of the room etc. Suddenly the clock radio starts playing “we have just begun”. Mike at beginning starts thinking this is just the trick of the hotel staff. At 8:07 the song starts singing again. Now Mike starts experiencing some super natural events like slamming of the door by a widow, hallucinations of the previous victims and especially of his own daughter Katie. He tries to get out of the room but all in vain.

To contact his wife Lily (Mary McCormack) for help, he tries to use laptop but sprinkler system short-circuits his laptop too. Suddenly room temperature goes below Zero and his laptop begins working again. Lily told him that police has been the 1408 as told by him but the room is empty and no one was there. A same lookalike of Mike came to the chat window and ask Lily to come to hotel. Mike breaks a picture in that room which starts flooding the room. He was on a beach surface and after that reconciles with Lily and thought that it was at all just a dream. Lily asks him to write a book about it, but on visiting post office to send his script he saw some people as construction crew and recognizes it as the hotel staff previously in that hotel. After destroying post office it is revealed that Mike is still there is room 1408. Mike saw the vision of Katie and seeing that he again felt charged. Again that song begins to play and Mike looked for the same Radio clock. As it ends room changed to normal again and clock radio sets itself again at 60:00. Suddenly the operator calls Mike after the resetting of the clock.

Mike asks her to release him but she said he can relive the hour over and over again. Mike sees a vision of himself being hanged in that room but he refused to do that to himself and sets the room on fire. The whole was evacuated and Lily was stopped at the entrance so that she could not be sent in that room. Firefighters pull Mike to safety from that room. In the office Olin said “Well done Enslin well done.” When Mike meet Lily as the entrance he told the whole story to Lily but she didn’t believe him even a bit. As both were moving back, Lily finds a box from the rubble of 1408 and finds his tape recorder. He plays that he hears the conversation of him and Katie. Lily hearing this came at a shock stares at Mike with Shock and was scared and Mike to was watching Lily grimly and scene black outs.

Review: It is one of the best horror and thriller movies that one can see. John Cusack performance in the movie was commendable and rest of the cast performance was also decent. Direction of the movie was good and so do was the special effects. Most impressive part of the movie was the story and screenplay part that was simply brilliant but although ending was a bit low to standard which it has raised during the whole movie and that was a little disappointment. The movie has 3 alternate ending which was very unique and what we feel the best ending will be the original ending of the movie which was not included was the feel it was a little low to the context of the movie. But overall movie was great and definitely to be watch who liked horror and thriller type of stuff.

Stars given: 3.5 out of 5.

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.