Arunachalam

Arunachalam is a 1997 Tamil drama film directed by Sundar C and written by Crazy Mohan. The film features Rajinikanth, Soundarya and Rambha in the lead roles, with Jaishankar and Ravichandran in other pivotal roles. The soundtrack and background score for the film was composed by Deva, while U. K. Senthil Kumar handled the cinematography. The basic plot has been inspired from the 1985 Hollywood film Brewsters Millions and the 1988 Naseeruddin Shah starrer Hindi film Maalamaal.

Arunachalam Rajinikanth finds himself to be an orphan. He travels from his village to Madras. There, he meets Beeda Kathavarayan Janagaraj, who gives him a job. By some magical situation, Arunachalam discovers himself to be the son of Vethachalam, a deceased millionairethrough Rangachari Visu, the guardian of Vethachalams trust. If Arunachalam wants his inheritance, he has to follow certain rules. He can get an inheritance of 3000 crore if he can spend crore in a month. The three conditions are no contributions to charities, not to own any assets at the end of the month, and, above all, no one else must know. If Arunachalam fails to spend the money according to the rules, all the money will go to his fathers trust which is managed by Kalaiperumal V. K. Ramasamy, Prathap Nizhalgal Ravi, Kurain Kitty and Vishwanath Raghuvaran. These four are ruthless they want to spoil Arunachalams efforts and get all the money for the trust and then to loot the money. Nandhini Rambha is Rangacharis daughter and she is appointed as the accountant for Arunachalam fordays.The music was Composed by Deva. The song Nagumo had two versions, Hariharan version was included in soundtrack only, while another version with vocals of Krishnaraj was included in the film only. Audio was released under the music label ABCL Music of Amitabh Bachchan. ........

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