Arthanari

Arthanari is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film starring Arundhati and debutante Ramkumar. The film was dubbed in Malayalam as Arthanari.^[1]

Plot[]

Selvamanickam runs an ashram in Chennai, and Karthik grows up there. Sathyapriya, a police officer, gets into a fight with Karthik and later consoles him after learning about his past. They later fall in love. One day, Selvamanickam dies. Karthik assumes that he died a natural death when Sathyapriya tells him that he was murdered. Both Karthik and Sathyapriya want to avenge Selvamanickam's death.

Cast[]

• Arundhati as Sathyapriya
• Ramkumar as Karthik
• Nassar as Selvamanickam
• Rajendran
• Abhishek Vinod as Kidnapper
• K. Sivasankar as Ramasamy
• Vazhukku En Muthuraman
• Sampath Ram
• Mippu as Karthik's friend
• Sudhakar
• Thavasi

Production[]

The film is directed by Sundarra Elangovan, a former assistant of Bala. Arundhati plays an encounter specialist named Sathyapriya while debutant Ramkumar plays a civil engineer who gets involved in Sathyapriya's case. To prepare for her role, Arundhati watched films from the same genre including Blue Steel, The Bone Collector and Mardaani.^[2] The film was titled as Arthanari because both the male and female characters have equal importance. Nassar plays a supporting role while Rajendran plays the antagonist.^[3]

Soundtrack[]

The songs are composed by V. Selvaganesh.^[4]

Release[]

The Times of India gave the film one and a half out of five stars and wrote that "There are films that have a scrappy feel about them because of their low budget, but this one doesn’t really feel entirely shoddy".^[5] The Times of India Samayam gave the film a rating of two out of five stars and praised the directors and Arundhati's performance.^[6]

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