Panchu Arunachalam

Thambi Pondatti (1992)

, 2h5
Réalisé par Panchu Arunachalam
Acteurs Rashin Rahman, Sukanya, Nizhalgal Ravi, Ramya Krishnan, Nagesh, Rajesh

Somu (Rahman) is an advertising photographer who exclusively works with female models. His family is a very modern family. His elder brother Balu (Nizhalgal Ravi) falls in love with his friend Maala (Ramya Krishnan), a modern woman, and he discloses it to Somu. They finally get married. Thereafter, the entire family searches a bride for Somu. In turn, Somu gets married with Sumathi (Sukanya) who is from a conservative strict family. Sumathi becomes a suspicious wife and she finds irritating her husband family's behaviours. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.

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Puthu Paatu (1989)

Réalisé par Panchu Arunachalam
Acteurs Ramarajan, Suman Ranganathan, Rajeev, Goundamani, Senthil, Nizhalgal Ravi

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Manamagale Vaa (1988)

Réalisé par Panchu Arunachalam
Acteurs Prabhu, Raadhika Sarathkumar, Goundamani, Chinni Jayanth, V K Ramasamy, S. S. Chandran

Balu (Prabhu) is an eligible bachelor, looking for a wife. With a picture perfect woman in mind, he insults and rejects many women. Meanwhile, Chitra (Radhika) is looking for a way to reconcile her sister Geetha's marriage with her husband. Geetha has been sent to her parent's home for no fault of hers. Chitra figures that the most appropriate way to settle scores with her sister's in-laws, is by marrying Balu, as Geetha is married to Balu's brother. She disguises herself as a village belle, Rajathi and enters Balu's life. After marriage, Balu is traumatised by her ignorance, but Rajathi (Chitra) falls in love with him. Meanwhile, Rajathi's suitor from the village hatches a plan to bring her back from her husband and marry her forcibly. Balu on the other hand decides to divorce Rajathi. Chitra decides to unveil her mask now, but will her plan succeed or boomerang.

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Ilaya Thalaimurai (1977)

Réalisé par Panchu Arunachalam
Genres Drame
Acteurs Sivaji Ganesan, Vanisri, Nagesh, Sundarrajan, Sreekanth, V K Ramasamy

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Chanakya (2005)

Acteurs R. Sarathkumar, Namitha, Vadivelu, Cochin Haneefa, Laya Gorty, Ashokan
Note25%

Ganesh (Sarath Kumar) is an auto driver and a kindhearted man, who goes out of his way to earn money to help the poor and the needy.

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ரிஷி (2001)

Réalisé par Sundar C.
Genres Action
Acteurs R. Sarathkumar, Meena, Prakash Raj, Sanghavi, Arun Pandian, S. V. Sekhar
Rôle Histoire
Note41%

Rishi (Sarathkumar) is a professional thief working for Satya (Arun Pandiyan). On one of his missions, he happens to watch a minister (Devan) kill a television reporter who is about to expose him. Rishi takes off with a floppy the reporter hands to him before dying and the minister, naturally, wants it back. Things get confusing because of Velu (Sarathkumar), who looks like Rishi and gets into trouble. .Meanwhile, Rishi turns over a new leaf when one of his tasks ends up in a singer Nandhini (Sangavi) being blinded. He starts taking care of her but Sathya is unwilling to let him go.

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மாயாபஜார் (1995)

Genres Drame, Comédie, Horreur
Acteurs Ramki, Urvashi, Visu, Vivek, Ajay Rathnam, Chinni Jayanth
Rôle Histoire
Note60%

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வனஜா கிரிஜா (1994)

, 2h30
Genres Drame, Comédie
Acteurs Ramki, Kushboo Sundar, Mohini, Urvashi, Visu, Nizhalgal Ravi
Rôle Concepteur de dialogues
Note53%

Anand (Napoleon), a veterinarian, and Raja (Ramki), a doctor, are brothers. Their father, Ramanathan (Visu), is a rich retired businessman.

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Veera (1994)

Réalisé par Suresh Krissna
Genres Comédie, Comédie romantique
Acteurs Rajinikanth, Meena, Roja, Senthil, Livingston, Vinu Chakravarthy
Rôle Lyricist
Note65%

Muthuveerappan (Rajinikanth) comes to the city from his village for a song contest. He meets Ravikanth (Senthil) in the city and they both work hard for the song contest. Muthu tells Ravikanth about how he fell in love with Devayani (Meena) and how he got her to love him. Devayani is the daughter of a song teacher in his village. He came to this contest so he could win the money and pay off the loan his mother had to the village leader. They both work together and end up winning the song contest. Muthu then goes back to his village with joy and finds out a flood had come and Devayani's house had been destroyed, it was reported that her father and her body had not been found. Muthu thinks that Devayani is dead, and is very sad. He then goes and gives the money to the village leader, paying off his mother's debt. His mother takes him to the city so that they can find a job and so that Muthu can forget about Meena. When they reach the city Muthu finds out that his song was a big hit. Therefore he had become very popular. The holder of the song contest (Janakaraj) calls on Muthu to come work for him. Muthu does not want to, but his mother persuades him. He then works for Janakaraj and his daughter falls in love with Muthu. Muthu who is still in love with Devayani refused to marry Janakaraj's daughter Roopa (Roja Selvamani). His mother says Devayani won't come back and she wishes to see his marriage. Therefore he marries Roopa. Soon after the marriage she has to go on a business trip to the USA. Meena was in fact alive but has amnesia. Muthu's songs are playing on the radio and Devayani happens to hear it and she remembers again. She promptly gets on the bus to the city from a village where she was helping the fisherman who saved her life. She meets Muthu at the recording studio. He is surprised and overjoyed but doesn't tell her about his marriage to Roopa . Devayani is then adamant to get married soon, so they both get married. He then juggles both of his lives (as Muthu, Devayani's husband and as Veera, Roja's husband). He nearly gets caught when both Roopa and Muthu with Devayani go to the saree shop and bump into each other. So to prove that they are two different people he takes a photo and photoshops it to show two of him shaking hands. They then all believe Muthu and Veera are different people. A thief who Muthu had caught and handed over to the police takes revenge by kidnapping his wives. The thief also knows that both are one person, and when he comes to save them it is revealed that both are one person. After he saves them both his wives fight over him, one says that he officially married her first (Roopa) while the other(Devayani) says that she fell in love first. His wives don't want to share. When he tries to explain they go away angrily. Muthu then leaves the city to go back to his village. When he gets home he finds them both in his house. The film ends with them both holding his bag as he enters the house.

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Thottil Kuzhandhai (1994)

, 2h30
Réalisé par SP. Muthuraman
Acteurs Ramki, Ranjitha, Anandaraj, Janagaraj, Vinu Chakravarthy, Kovai Sarala

The film began with the abandonment of a baby girl in a baby hatch and that baby was brought up in a government orphanage. Now, Raani (Ranjitha) is a gifted woman and she is the proud of the orphanage. She then goes to a renowned college. There, Raani meets the village boy Pitchai (Ramki) and she changes him into a perfect city dweller, they slowly become best friends. After the studies, Pitchai and Raani fall in love with each other. Raani becomes a Sub-inspector of police while Pitchai becomes a district collector. Soon, they have to face the smuggler Rajarathnam (Anandaraj) and his son Murali (Karan). What transpires later forms the crux of the story.

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பாண்டியன் (1992)

Réalisé par SP. Muthuraman
Genres Comédie, Action
Acteurs Rajinikanth, Kushboo Sundar, Jayasudha Kapoor, Aachi Manorama, Tiger Prabhakar, Janagaraj
Rôle Lyricist
Note53%

The film is about Pandian (Rajinikanth) who wants to avenge his sister's (Jaysudha) husband's ( Charan Raj) death. He joins the murderer's gang, and how he takes revenge forms the crux of "Pandian". Then the gang came to known as Pandiyan made undercover operation, Pandiyan was a police officer, then rest of the story deals with how pandiyan caught the culprit, with style approach of Pandiyan (Rajinikanth).

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Thambi Pondatti (1992)

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Singaravelan (1992)

Réalisé par R. V. Udayakumar
Genres Comédie, Romance
Acteurs Kamal Haasan, Aachi Manorama, Kushboo Sundar, Jaishankar, Mano, Charle
Rôle Histoire
Note70%

The film starts with Singaravelan a.k.a. Velan (Kamal Hassan), on his birthday taming a wild bull by just talking to him. He seems to share a special bond with animals as he works in his farm filled with animals. Later that day, his mother, Parvathy (Sumithra), calls him and decides to tell him the truth about his father. Velan, in his hyper imagination, thinks that his father was killed by four goons (as is the case of many Tamil films then) but soon learns that his father did actually die of a brain illness like he had been told before. But, he had died heartbroken that his marriage with Velan’s mother was not accepted by her sister-in-law and they had broken all links. Further, they believe that it was Parvathy’s curse that killed them in a car accident and they get promise from the guardian, that their daughter should not be married to Parvathy's son. Velan’s mother reveals that it is Velan’s duty to get married to her brother's daughter Sumathi (Khusboo) to bring the separated family back together. Armed with only a picture of the girl when she was 4, he leaves for Madras to fulfill his mother’s wishes.

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Dharma Durai (1991)

Réalisé par Rajasekhar
Genres Drame, Action
Acteurs Rajinikanth, Madhu, Gautami, Nizhalgal Ravi, Senthil, Dileep
Rôle Ecrivain
Note65%

The story begins with a young couple, Balu and Ishwarya, being chased by some goons. Ishwarya is the daughter of Rajadorai (Charan Raj) and had eloped and run away with her boyfriend Balu against the wishes of Rajadorai. Rajadorai sends his goons to track down the couple. When the goons finally track down the couple in a forest and start beating up Balu, a man (Rajinikanth) comes to the couple's rescue. When Rajadorai and his brother Ramadorai (Nizhalgal Ravi) find out about this man, they rush over to his hideout in the forest, only to escape in fear when they see him. The couple is scared and puzzled as to how the man could induce so much fear in the brothers. The man's wife Parvathi (Gouthami) then tells the couple the story of the man, whose name is Dharmadorai.

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