Pournami ("Full Moon") is a 2006 malayalam language film stars Trisha Krishnan, Prabhas, Charmy, Rahul Dev, and Sindhu Tolani, directed by Prabhu Deva. Film starts in a distant past where a remote village in Andhra Pradesh suffers from a drought for a very long time. A woman(Veda Archana Sastry) from a traditional family comes forward to dance in a Lord Shiva's temple to appease Shiva to bless their village with rains. She dances for twelve days continuously before she dies if exhaustion. Finally they have rains and their long standing drought ends. From then they make it a tradition that a girl from that dancer's family should dance in Shiva's temple for every twelve years on that auspicious day.