Abhi (film)

Abhi is a 2003 Indian Kannada-language romantic action comedy film written & directed by Dinesh Babu and produced by Parvathamma Rajkumar under Poornima Enterprises. The film stars Puneeth Rajkumar in the titular role, with Ramya, making her debut in Kannada cinema. Dr. Rajkumar sang a song for the film composed by Gurukiran. The film was remade in Telugu as Abhimanyu, with Nandamuri Kalyan Ram reprising Puneeth Rajkumar's role and Ramya reprising her role in the Telugu version.

Abhi was released on 25 April 2003 and became a commercial success at the box office.

Plot
Abhi, a college student in Bangalore, meets a Muslim girl Bhanu as her relatives are staying in Abhi's rental house. Abhi and Bhanu starts to know each other and begin a relationship. Bhanu's father Mohammed Khan learns about this, where he gets shocked and enraged upon learning Abhi's identity. Mohammed Khan arrives in Bangalore to search of Abhi, where he finds Abhi at the college and begins to attack him. Abhi does not agree with Khan's behaviour and brutally thrashes Khan in the college, but stops after learning that Khan is Bhanu's father.

Khan vacates the house and they all leave for Hubli. Abhi and his friends heads to Hubli and manages to talk with Bhanu. Bhanu's grandmother advises Abhi to leave the house immediately as Khan and his men will be coming from mosque after the prayer. Abhi asks Bhanu's grandmother about the reason why Khan tried to kill him earlier, where she replies to ask your mother Janaki. Abhi returns home and reveals about Khan to Janaki. Janaki reveals to Abhi that she is his adopted mother and reveals about his real parents Ruksana Bano and Joseph.

Ruksana and Joseph fell in love, eloped and got married, but their inter-religion marriage was not accepted by Khan and his father Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Khan and Abdul Ghaffar Khan learnt about Ruksana and Joseph's location, where they brutally killed them and were about to kill an infant Abhi, but the local people arrived and saved Abhi from the danger. When many people were hesitent to adopt Abhi, Janaki adopted Abhi as his own son and they left for Bangalore for a new life.

Learning this, Abhi decides to breakup with Bhanu for Janaki's sake. Bhanu also learns about Abhi's past from her grandmother, where she also decides to breakup with Abhi for her family's sake. Bhanu meets Abhi and the two breakup with each other. Khan assumes that Bhanu ran away to marry Abhi and tries to kill him, but Abhi defeats Khan. Bhanu's grandmother advises Khan to stop his cruelty. Khan realizes his mistake and allows Bhanu to marry Abhi.

Reception
Chitraloka wrote "The redeeming feature of this film is the mixture. A right film at the right time from equally right banner!." Viggy wrote that "One can say, film Abhi in general, exceeds Puneet's earlier film Appu in all respect. Good film to watch."