Alli Arjuna

Alli Arjuna
Directed by	Saran
Written by	Saran
Produced by	Chandraleela Bharathiraja
Starring	Manoj Bharathiraja Richa Pallod Karan Preetha Vijayakumar
Cinematography	A. Venkatesh
Edited by	Suresh Urs
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Production company	Janani Art Creations
Distributed by	Janani Art Creations
Release date	14 January 2002
Running time	148 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Alli Arjuna is 2002 Tamil drama film directed by Saran. The film featured Manoj Bharathiraja, Richa Pallod, Dhamu, Charle, Karan and Preetha Vijayakumar in major roles. Music was by A. R. Rahman.

Plot

Arivazhagan (Manoj) has grown up to be a good for nothing fellow because of the neglect and ill-treatment by the hands of his parents and his only aim in life is to be an irritant to his father. The entire family attends the marriage of Savitri (Richa) in Bangalore and when the groom disappears, Arivu offers to take his place. The marriage never happens but Savitri shows up at Arivu's house later, asking him to give her refuge. When he moves out of the house to take up residence with his friends, she follows him there too. Initially irritated by her, Arivu realises that he is gradually falling in love with her. Meanwhile, the friends learns that Savitri left her own surroundings just to get over the gruesome suicide of her close friend Nisha (Preetha), a victim of eve-teasing. Nisha's brother Kishore (karan) and her family are still haunted by her death and the brother promises to avenge on the person who was the cause of his sister's death. Who is responsible for Nisha's suicide, and will Arivu succeed on proposing his love towards Savitri forms the rest of the story.

Cast

• Manoj Bharathiraja as Arivazhagan/Arivu
• Karan as Kishore
• Richa Pallod as Savithri/Saavi
• Preetha Vijayakumar as Nisha
• Vinu Chakravarthy as Daddy
• Charle as Oomaiyan
• Dhamu as Kamatchi
• Vaiyapuri as Meenatchi
• Jaiganesh as Arivazhagan's Father
• Fathima Babu as Arivazhagan's Mother
• Nizhalgal Ravi as Savithri's father
• Ambika as Savithri's Mother
• Mahanadi Shankar as Kumar
• Santhana Bharathi
• Vanaja
• Uma Maheshwari
• Shyam Ganesh
• Vindhya in a special appearance

Trivia

Director Saran united with A R Rahman for the first time after his work with Music director Bharadwaj for his first three films. This would however be their last collaboration after which Director Saran had joined Bharadwaj for the films he had directed after.

Soundtrack

Untitled

The soundtrack of the movie was composed by A.R.Rahman. The lyrics are done by Vairamuthu and Arivumathi. 4 songs are re-used from Rahman's earlier Hindi films Pukar,1947 Earth and One 2 Ka 4. The soundtrack was released in 2001.

Song	Artist(s)	Lyrics	Notes
"Sollayo Solaikilli"	S.P.Balasubramanyam, Swarnalatha	Vairamuthu	Reused from "Sunta Hai Mera Khuda" from Pukar
"Shingu Lingu"	K. S. Chithra	Vairamuthu
"Onne Onne"	Sadhana Sargam, Shankar Mahadevan	Arivumathi	Reused "Banno Rani" from Earth
"Osaka Morayaa"	Vasundhara Das, Karthik	Vairamuthu	Reused "Osakka Muraiyaa" from One 2 Ka 4
"Endhan Nenjil"	S. Janaki, Srinivas	Vairamuthu	Reused "Sona Nahi Naa Sahi" from One 2 Ka 4

External links

• Alli Arjuna at IMDb