He moulded himself to fit the role of a professional killer. With clear and confident emotion maintained in the entire film, he is perfect. Here comes a terrific performance from Mahesh Babu. Mahesh played the role of a professional killer, Nandagopal. With a history of soft-romantic scripts such as Nuvvu Naaku Nachavu, Manmadhudu, Malleswari and another romantic to his directoral credit (Nuvve Nuvve), Trivikram Srinivas, for a change, dished out an action film. The film stood to the expectations and is a definite treat for Mahesh fans Athadu is in production for quite sometime. This one being Mahesh's film after a gap, a brilliant writer in the project, lot of working days spent for acheiving the right nodes, hit music- many reasons can be quoted on these lines to prove why the expectations are high on this film. His last film Arjun released on 18th August, 2004. This is almost a gap of 1 year for a Mahesh babu film.
