Athidhi () is a 2007 Indian Telugu-language action romance film starring Mahesh Babu and Amrita Rao, directed by Surender Reddy and produced by G. Ramesh Babu, brother of Mahesh Babu, under their banner Krishna Pictures Private Limited. It was released on 18 October 2007 with 500 prints in 820 theaters all over the world. Athidhi finished 35 days in 400 centres successfully. The film was remade in Bengali language in Bangladesh as Durdorsho Premik (2012), starring Shakib Khan and Apu Biswas. Plot An orphan boy wanders through Delhi looking for a job. When selling balloons, he sees a girl whose name is Amrita and gives her a free balloon. A few days later, during a storm, Amrita finds the boy getting drenched and gives him an umbrella. The umbrella is swept into a place nearby, where Amrita's parents are headed. The boy stops their car and tells them about the dangerous path ahead destroyed by the storm. As the boy has rescued Amrita's parents, they adopt him and name him Athidhi. One day, while driving Athidhi to a hostel, they are stopped by a psychopath teenager who mugs them and shoots the parents. In his rage, Athidhi lunges after the teen and manages to grab the gun. However, The police see Athidhi with a gun and Amrita's dead parents and arrests Athidhi. Amrita also thinks that Athidhi killed her parents and starts to hate him. 14 years later, Athidhi is released from prison and goes in search of the psychopath and Amrita. Athidhi becomes a hurdle to the local goons, as he impedes their illegal operation. Once, he runs across a girl named Amrita chased by stalkers from her college. Amrita and Athidhi meet many times and soon starts to like Athidhi, but has to go back to Hyderabad before she can confess her feelings. When she tries to tell him that she is leaving, Athidhi realizes that the goons are after him, he continuously tells Amrita to leave and slaps her, when she doesn't listen. Amrita runs away crying. Later, Athidhi goes to Amrita to apologize, but only finds her friend Madhavi. She tells him that Amrita just wanted to tell him that she is leaving. They go to the cemetery to look for her. Madhavi explains Amrita's origin to Athidhi, who leaves for Hyderabad to find her. Athidhi arrives in Hyderabad and decides to stay with Amrita's family,