Aithe Enti

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The film follows Sanjay, a man who dreams about a girl he never met named Anjali. When Sanjay finds out that Anjali is married to Veerendra Sharma, he gives a photograph to a professional killer (Malhotra) to kill Sharma. However, Sanjay accidentally gave a photograph of himself to the killer.

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• Namitha as Anjali
• Steven Kapoor as Veerendra "Veeru" Sharma
• Mohit Chadda as Sanjay
• Radhika Chaudhari
• Pavan Malhotra as a professional killer
• Brahmanandam
• M. S. Narayana
• Sudhakar
• Ali
• Raghu Babu
• Kallu Chidambaram
• Siva Reddy as the boss's son
• Duvvasi Mohan
• Ranganath as the boss
• Vizag Prasad
• Soma Vijay Prakash
• Telangana Shakuntala
• Karate Kalyani
• Madhulika
• Srinija
• Shefali Jariwala in a song

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The film began production under the name The Deal and was initialled planned as a bilingual in Telugu and Hindi. Mumbai-based model Mohit was cast as one of the leads along with Namitha, whose real-life boyfriend, Steven Kapoor, played her husband in the film. Bollywood actress Shefali Jariwala did an item song in the film.{{Cite web |date=28 August 2003 |title=Muhurat of Deal |url=http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/muhurat-deal.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201193036/http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/muhurat-deal.html |archive-date=1 February 2022 |access-date=8 February 2022 |website=Idlebrain.com}} The film was directed by Habib Nasir, who left the project midway along with Namitha and Kapoor due to script changes made by Soma Vijay Prakash (the film's producer) to suit the film's low budget. Soma Vijay Prakash took over direction and added a comedy track that involved himself as an actor.{{Cite web |last=Jeevi |date=29 May 2004 |title=Movie review - Aithe Enti |url=http://idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-aitheenti.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202064901/http://idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-aitheenti.html |archive-date=2 February 2022 |access-date=8 February 2022 |website=Idlebrain.com}}

Ghantadi Krishna composed the music. Lyrics by Jayasurya, R.D.S. Prakash and Sahiti. Audio released by Supreme Music.{{Cite news |date=10 May 2004 |title=Chords & Notes |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/chords-notes/article28241155.ece |url-status=live |access-date=8 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202065430/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/chords-notes/article28241155.ece |archive-date=2 February 2022}}{{Cite web |title=Aithe Enti (2004) Songs |url=https://moviegq.com/movie/aithe-enti-773/songs |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208035404/https://moviegq.com/movie/aithe-enti-773/songs |archive-date=8 February 2022 |access-date=8 February 2022 |website=MovieGQ}}

• "Edo Kotta Lokam" – Ghantadi Krishna, Nitya Santhoshini
• "Muthyamaina"
• "Ninnu Choodani"- Smitha
• "Ninnu Choodani" (second version) – Parthasarathi, Nishma
• "Nuvve Naaku Lokamani" – Unnikrishnan
• "Rangeela" – Vijayalakshmi

The film received negative reviews for its vulgar scenes.{{Cite web |last=Verma |first=Mithun |title=Aithe Enti Review |url=https://movies.fullhyderabad.com/aithe-enti/telugu/aithe-enti-movie-reviews-1030-2.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201195107/https://movies.fullhyderabad.com/aithe-enti/telugu/aithe-enti-movie-reviews-1030-2.html |archive-date=1 February 2022 |access-date=8 February 2022 |website=Full Hyderabad}} Gudipoodi Srihari of The Hindu appreciated "The concept and presentation of the main theme is quite interesting", but criticised how "The criminal part of the main drama, towards the end, is the only saving grace of the film".{{Cite news |last=Srihari |first=Gudipoodi |date=June 2004 |title=Gripping crime thriller |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/gripping-crime-thriller/article28243827.ece |url-status=live |access-date=8 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204030804/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/gripping-crime-thriller/article28243827.ece |archive-date=4 December 2021}} Jeevi of Idlebrain.com noted that "This film takes the audience for a ride. You can safely avoid watching this flick". Mithun Verma of Full Hyderabad criticised the film and said that "Aithe Enti is a bad movie".

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Category:2004 thriller films