2005 · action · thriller · family
Athadu
Directed by Trivikram Srinivas2h 55m2005
A hitman, Nandu, is hired to stage the assassination of a politician. However, when the politician is actually killed and Nandu is framed for the murder, he assumes a dead man's identity to evade the law.
Our read: Athadu (2005) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · thriller · family entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- redemptive
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