Aadi (film)

Aadi
Directed by	V.V. Vinayak
Produced by	P Naga Lakshmi
Written by	V.V. Vinayak, Paruchuri Brothers
Starring	Jr. NTR, Keerti Chawla, Rajan P. Dev
Music by	Mani Sharma
Release date(s)	28 March 2002
Language	Telugu

Aadi (Telugu: ఆది) is a Telugu film released in 2002 with Jr. NTR in the main lead. V.V. Vinayak directed this movie. This hit film stands second in Jr. NTR's career, right behind Simhadri. It was also remade in Tamil as Jai with Prashanth. This film led both the actor NTR JR and director V.V. Vinayak into instant stardom. The film collected about 22 crore rupees.

Contents 1 Story 2 Cast 3 Crew 4 Reception 5 External links

Story

The story is set in the backdrop of Rayalaseema. The film opens with Veera Reddy (Ahuti Prasad) returning from USA after a long gap with his wife and 8 year-old kid Aadi Kesava Reddy. Veera Reddy's deceased father was a well-known factionist in that area and owned a land of 4,000 acres (16 km²). While leaving for USA, Aadi Sesha Reddy gave the responsibility of managing this land to Siva Reddy (Rajan P Dev). Now back in India, Veera Reddy realizes that Siva Reddy is misusing his power. He wants to donate all his land to the 2000 families staying in that village. When Siva Reddy comes to know of this charity giveaway, he attacks Veera Reddy, killing him and his wife. Veeranna (Chalapati Rao), a trusted lieutenant of Veera Reddy, takes the kid Aadi Kesava Reddy and escapes to the city (Hyderabad). After the murders, Veera Reddy's trusted people are put in jail with a prison sentence of 14 years.

Then the film titles roll ending with the caption '12 years later'. We see the grown up Aadi (Jr. NTR) studying in a college. He falls in love with Nandu (Keerthi Chawla) and vice versa. Veeranna has raised Aadi in Hyderabad as a fun-loving boy but he is also hot tempered young man. Later on, it is revealed that Nandu is the daughter of Siva Reddy.

Completing her studies, Nandu returns to her hometown at her father's place. After a hiatus of 14 years, Aadi re-enters the Rayalaseema along with other trusted members of his father who are released from jail. Veeranna wants to take revenge on Siva Reddy and get back all the land so that he can distribute it to the villagers. The rest of the film deals with how Aadi achieves his objective.

This movie ran for 100 days in 98 centres.

Cast

• Jr. NTR .... Aadi Keshava reddy
• Keerti Chawla .... Nandu
• Rajan P. Dev .... Siva Reddy
• Ali
• Venu Madhav
• M.S. Narayana
• Chalapati Rao ....Veeranna
• Ahuti Prasad .... Veera Reddy
• Raghu Babu
• Ramya Sri

Crew

• Screenplay - Direction: VV Vinayak
• Dialogues: Paruchuri brothers
• Thrills: Vikram Dharma
• Music: Mani Sharma

Reception

• The film was opened with positive reviews,turned out to be a block buster and the highest grosser of that year.

External links

• IMDB Page
• IdleBrain Review

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Films directed by V.V. Vinayak Aadi (2002) Chennekeshava Reddy (2002) Dil (2003) Tagore (2003) Samba (2004) Bunny (2005) Lakshmi (2006) Yogi (2007) Krishna (2008) Adurs (2009)