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Panchu Arunachalam is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Songs Indian born on 18 june 1941
Panchu Arunachalam (born 18 June 1941) is a writer and producer who works in the Tamil cinema. He is the son of Kavignar Kannadasan's elder brother He has also worked as a songwriter. He starter producing films under his production banner named P. A. Arts. His son Subbu Panchu Arunachalam is an actor in the Tamil film industry.
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Thambi Pondatti (1992)
, 2h5Directed by Panchu Arunachalam
Actors 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.
Puthu Paatu (1989)
Directed by Panchu Arunachalam
Actors Ramarajan, Suman Ranganathan, Rajeev, Goundamani, Senthil, Nizhalgal Ravi
Manamagale Vaa (1988)
Directed by Panchu Arunachalam
Actors 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.
Ilaya Thalaimurai (1977)
Directed by Panchu Arunachalam
Genres Drama
Actors Sivaji Ganesan, Vanisri, Nagesh, Sundarrajan, Sreekanth, V K Ramasamy
Scriptwriter
Chanakya (2005)
Genres Action, Romance
Actors R. Sarathkumar, Namitha, Vadivelu, Cochin Haneefa, Laya Gorty, Ashokan
Roles Story
Rating29%
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.
Rishi (2001)
Directed by Sundar C.
Genres Action
Actors R. Sarathkumar, Meena, Prakash Raj, Sanghavi, Arun Pandian, S. V. Sekhar
Roles Story
Rating40%
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.
Alexander (1996)
, 2h10Genres Action
Actors Sangita, Prakash Raj, Srihari, Nizhalgal Ravi, Vadivukkarasi
Roles Story
Rating27%
Ashok brothers are three brothers who smuggle drugs and they are unstoppable. Only Alexander (Vijayakanth), a CBI officer, can arrest them.
Mayabazar (1995)
Genres Drama, Comedy, Horror
Actors Ramki, Urvashi, Visu, Vivek, Ajay Rathnam, Chinni Jayanth
Roles Story
Rating60%
Vanaja Girija (1994)
, 2h30Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Ramki, Kushboo Sundar, Mohini, Urvashi, Visu, Nizhalgal Ravi
Roles Dialogue
Rating53%
Anand (Napoleon), a veterinarian, and Raja (Ramki), a doctor, are brothers. Their father, Ramanathan (Visu), is a rich retired businessman.
Veera (1994)
Directed by Suresh Krissna
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Rajinikanth, Meena, Roja, Senthil, Livingston, Vinu Chakravarthy
Rating65%
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.
Thottil Kuzhandhai (1994)
, 2h30Directed by SP. Muthuraman
Actors 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.
Enga Muthalali (1993)
, 2h30Genres Drama
Actors Kasthuri, Radha Ravi, Raja, R. Sundarrajan, Venniradai Moorthy, Sumithra
Roles Writer
Rating24%
Vijaya Ragunadhan (Vijayakanth), a kind-hearted landlord and the village grams, lives with his younger brother Balu (Raja) and his mother (Janaki). He conflicts with his uncle (R. Sundarrajan), since he sent his cousin Jayaraman (Napoleon) to jail for killing a poor farmer. Vijaya Ragunadhan and his niece Kalyani (Kasthuri) are in love since their childhood.
Pandiyan (1992)
Directed by SP. Muthuraman
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Rajinikanth, Kushboo Sundar, Jayasudha Kapoor, Aachi Manorama, Tiger Prabhakar, Janagaraj
Roles Lyricist
Rating53%
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).
Thambi Pondatti (1992)
, 2h5Directed by Panchu Arunachalam
Actors 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.
Singaravelan (1992)
Directed by R. V. Udayakumar
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Kamal Haasan, Aachi Manorama, Kushboo Sundar, Jaishankar, Mano, Charle
Roles Story
Rating70%
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.