Arunachalam
Directed by	Sundar C
Written by	Crazy Mohan
Starring	Rajinikanth Soundarya Rambha Anju Aravaind Raghuvaran Jaishankar Senthil Janagaraj
Music by	Deva
Release date(s)	April 1997
Running time	180 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Gross revenue	$4 million

Arunachal was a Tamil film with superstar Rejanikanth

[edit] Plot

Rajnikanth finds himself to be an orphan by interval. He goes out of the village. He goes to Madras where he meets Janakaraj, who gives him a job. By some magical situation Rajni discovers himself to be a son of a (dead) millionaire - through Visu. Visu is the guardian of Rajni's father's trust. If Rajni wants his inheritance, he has to follow certain rules. He can get an inheritance of $1 billion if he can spend $10 million in a month. The conditions are: no contributions to charities, not to own any assets at the end of the month and above all, no one else should know about this! Receipts should be provide for all the expenses. If Rajni fails to spend the money according to the rules, all the money will go to his father's trust which is managed by V.K.Ramasamy, "Nizhalgal" Ravi, Kitty and Raguvaran. These four form a team of "villains". They want to spoil Rajni's efforts and get all the money for the trust and kill Visu. Rambha is Visu's daughter and she is appointed as the accountant for Rajni for 30 days....

What happens next is the main part of the story. Rajni tries hard to spend his money and many times, the money comes back! He spends on Horse races, lottery tickets, makes a movie with Senthil as the hero and he even starts his own political party with Janakaraj being the candidate. All these events provide moments of good humour and the rest of the plot follows the original Brewster's Millions.

[edit] Box Office

• The film grossed $4 million at the box office.
• Rajnikanth's dailogue "Aandava solra, Arunachala mudikkira, .. sollittaa" [Lord tells, Arunachalam does it] was popular. Whenever Rajnikanth utters it, Screenplay had events like Temple bell ringing or like that, so as to prove nature is with him, he then utters Sollittaan. [He has told]
• Rajnikanth reportedly kept his earnings a secret, but reportedly donated it to 8 different artists, who were leading a difficult life. Rumors say it includes Smt Pandharibai, [who famously played his mother roles] who received nearly $800,000.

However, Rajnikanth never speaks about his philanthropy.

• Movie was written and directed by Sundar C. The movie was a great hit in the south-Indian Box Office. Nowadays, the movie was and to this day is still played occasionally on SUN TV the most broadcasted Tamil television channel in the west.

[edit] External links

• Arunachalam at the Internet Movie Database

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