![]() ![]() He succeeds on defeating them in a fight and meets RDX, warning him to bring his brother Robert from Dubai, whom he promises to kill. He then takes them to the railway station, but is nearly ambushed by RDX's men. On finding out his past, Aathi's foster parents request him to come back to New Delhi, but he refuses. After the house is blown up by RDX, Aadhi escapes and is taken in by a couple who later became his foster parents. Only Anjali, Ramachandran, and Aathi survived the blast that annihilated their family. Together, they murder the whole extended family. Infuriated, he pays them a visit with some of his henchmen and Shankar. When Aathi's grandfather refuses, RDX threatens them, only to find knives being held at him by Aadhi and his cousins. RDX pays Aathi's house a visit and asks his grandfather to let his henchmen go. It is revealed that Anjali and Aadhi are from the same family as Anjali's father is Aathi's maternal uncle. On being questioned by his foster family, Aathi tells his flashback.Īathi's biological father was an honest cop who arrested one of RDX's henchmen. As typical and usual, Abdullah gets angry and goes to kill Aathi but fails, and Aathi beheads Abdullah, while his foster family witnessed this act with horror. Aathi threatens RDX telling that he was the one who killed Sadha, and that he will also kill Abdullah. However, Aathi arrives on the scene with help from Bullet, his college classmate who is a comical rowdy. At first naturally, RDX assumes the killer can be none other than Pattabhi, so he kills him. ![]() To exact their revenge, Ramachandran attempts to kill Sadha, one of RDX's henchmen, but fails to do so since Aadhi kills Sadha with a gun he was armed with. Meanwhile, RDX, a local gangster, enters and is shown to have a dispute with Pattabhi. It is revealed that Anjali is studying in the same college as Aadhi, and she also has her own agenda to seek revenge on her family's killers, and she is assisted by Ramachandran. Unable to be separated from Aadhi, his foster family comes to Chennai along with him. He takes up a course in a college in Chennai against his foster parents' wishes, while he is actually on a personal mission to eliminate the people behind the murder of his blood family. She then comes back to Chennai with Ramachandran to attend college.Īfter that, the scene shifts to Aathi, who lives in New Delhi with his foster family consisting of his parents Mani and Lakshmi, who are both loving to him, and his sister. Suddenly, she whips out a knife and kills him with the help of her paternal uncle Ramachandran, while saying that she has been waiting for this moment for many years. A retired police officer Shankar comes and sits on the bench by her side, and they exchange pleasantries. It's a diverting time-killer if you can find it.The film starts by with Anjali sitting on a bench in Rameswaram feeding a white pigeon by a calm ocean. Like most Columbia B-pictures of the forties, SONG OF India seems to be out of circulation although it was briefly released on video in an inferior, extended-play version. The cast, including Sabu who probably could have played this kind of role in his sleep, is acceptable as is the script and direction. Indeed, much of it seems shot exclusively for the film instead of the usual grainy library stock shots from another era which is the bane of many a cheap Hollywood jungle potboiler. is often thrilling and is well-integrated into the action. The footage of marauding tigers, panthers, crocodiles, exotic birds etc. His fiancée', Gail Russell, is the daughter of the king who tags along as the hunting party's unofficial photographer and, predictably, switches her allegiance to Sabu as the characters of the two men are exposed. Sabu is very much in his element playing a jungle prince who lords over the wild beasts, provoking the fury of Turhan Bey who leads a government-approved hunting expedition into the Indian wilderness. Obviously inspired by THE JUNGLE BOOK, SONG OF India is a reasonably fast-paced programmer which was apparently tailor-made for the long-extinct Saturday matinée market. ![]()
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