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They are interrupted by Vishnu who had tracked Sanjeev's phone and followed him, but he is killed by Arjun. Sanjeev finds Ammu unconscious but safe and tries to escape with her but is stopped by Arjun who tells him that Ammu, being born of the immortal Sanjeev, holds the key to duplicating the effect on others. Arjun was able to perfect the process on himself and Ashwatthama/Sanjeev thereby stopping their ageing, but was unable to recreate the effect on others. Arjun was a doctor who was obsessed with studying the pituitary gland and controlling it, thereby stopping the ageing process and making one immortal. It is shown through his recovered memories that he is actually Ashwatthama who had gone to his brother Arjun to lay low after the bombing incident. He goes to the forest and discovers a house, in which he finds the dark room in his recurring dreams along with several tonsured patients on which brain surgery had been performed. Sanjeev talks to the now-old Amrutha who tells him that the last time she saw Ashwatthama was about 41 years ago, when he told her that he was going to his brothers place, and he realises that the place Ashwatthama told about was the same place where he was found by the hospital staff.

But, a man who looks exactly like Sanjeev takes Ammu from her school, which leads Vishnu to believe that Sanjeev and the kidnapper share a connection. However, Pallavi and Yasir were able to prove his innocence by showing the CCTV footage of the hospital at the time of the kidnapping and proving his alibi. The suspect of the police sketch turns out to be Sanjeev and Vishnu arrests him despite having no other evidence. However, they are unable to follow up as Pallavi chastises Sanjeev for going in search of his past and not paying attention to their daughter. From another old friend and compatriot of Ashwatthama, they find that the last person who had seen him was his then-girlfriend Amrutha. They find from the author that the man in the picture was a student leader called Ashwatthama who was wanted for bombing a police station but was never found. Sanjeev, wanting to know about who he is, takes the help of his friend Yasir who finds a picture of a lookalike of Sanjeev (of more than 30 years ago) in a book about the Emergency time in India. He locates a newspaper who witnessed the man with the dog and uses him to create a sketch of the suspect. His only lead is a CCTV footage of a hooded man along with a dog kidnapping a child from the highway at the early hours of the morning. Officer Vishnu (Rangadham) of the Preventive Crimes Unit is tasked with a case of multiple abductions of children, mostly orphans and runaways. He tries to lead a normal life but is haunted by a recurring dream of a dark room in which an unknown figure is performing brain surgery on a tonsured patient. Sanjeev met Pallavi while he was rescued from a forest 59 km away from Hyderabad by members of an NGO and admitted in the same hospital, having suffered from memory loss and having no recollection of his past life. The parts that Nithin pulls off well are the ones set during the emergency period and in the role of the scientist.Sanjeev (Nithin Prasanna) is a disabled receptionist at a hospital who is married to a nurse Pallavi ( Preethi Asrani) and has a daughter Amrutha or Ammu (Baby Deevana). You almost wish for slightly better emoting in those parts. As a person torn between the love for his family and longing for finding about his past, he gets a lot of emotional scenes in the first half where he pulls through with difficulty. It is Nithin Prasanna as the protagonist who gets the author-backed role or shall we say roles. Preethi Asrani, playing Pallavi is apt for the part. She is written as a normal human, like any of us who reacts differently in different situations.

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The movie lends her an empathetic lens, avoiding deifying her self-less acts or demonising her nagging of her husband.

Her family life is in a way an extension of her day job.

She gives him a name and home by marrying and caring for him. He has a past that he has forgotten after an injury and was rescued by a medical worker. Everything seems normal on the surface, but the man is tormented by nightmares/visions of a past. The movie opens with the micro: a small family of Husband, wife, daughter and mother-in-law. Mahabharata thread runs throughout the runtime – there are characters named Arjun and Ashwathama, an important trigger to the plotline comes from discussions around a family tree, a similar trigger led to the epic battle of Kurukshetra. But the core is of a family drama involving two families – one a loving everyday household and the other reminiscent of the warring family of the Mahabharata. Director Ugandhar Muni’s A: Ad Infinitum is primarily a medical thriller with a decent mix of references from mythology and history.

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