Arasu (2003 film)

Cast

Plot

The film opens with Arasu (Sarath Kumar) murdering a person in Mumbai. Later the story shifts to Kumbakonam where he is an assistant to a temple priest (Delhi Ganesh). Soon the priest’s daughter Meera (Simran) falls in love with Arasu. At the stroke of interval Arasu sheds his mask and murders a rowdy who is out from jail and this shocks everybody. Then in a flashback he tells that his father (Sarath Kumar)believes in taking law into his hands and his wife Sivahaamy (roja) will be support with him and so had lot of enemies. When he confronts a bad guy (Sai Kumar) and humiliates him, the villains later kills Arasu’s father along with his wife . The rest of the story is how Arasu takes revenge for killing his parents .

Soundtrack

These 5 songs in Arasu are composed by Mani Sharma.

Production

The film marked the debut of Suresh who had worked with directors like Maharajan (Vallarasu), Dharani, and Lingusamy.

Most of the shooting took place at Kumbakonam, in and around the temple areas. Other locations were Mumbai and Kolkata. A fight scene was picturised at the Kumbakonam market area. Five cameras were used and it took ten days to shoot the fight scene. The scene choreographed by Peter Hayen and canned by cinematographer Y. N. Murali, was shot amidst a large crowd including the hero, some stuntmen, character artistes and the locals. Close-up shots of the fight scene was shot again in Chennai Studio where a set resembling the market place was erected.

Release

After this film, Suresh again collaborated with Sarathkumar for films like Gambeeram and Nam Naadu.

Critical reception

Sify wrote:"the narration is told in a gripping fashion with all the essential ‘masalas’ like punchy dialogues, action, song ‘n’ dance and item numbers". Balaji wrote:"The movie presents the revenge tale in the style of Rajnikanth's Baasha and is quite entertaining".