Aravindhan

<p>Aravindhan is preparing to clear IPS to become a police officer. But after he sees Thamizhvannan, shown as a , being shot dead by police, Aravindhan starts a fight against police and corrupt politicians. Aravindhan gets supported by the people for his strict fight against corruption. Anu loves Aravindhan, but her father does not accept the relation. The police wants to put Aravindhan in jail for the politicians, so Aravindhan goes into hiding. On the way, he hides in Gayathri’s home. The police tries to catch Aravindhan but at the same time, thinks Gayathri tried to give shelter to Aravindhan, so Gayathri’s father dies. Now Aravindhan understands that he has to save Gayathri, so he takes her with him to a factory area to stay. Aravindhan works in the factory, and life goes along smooth for him as he marries Gayathri and has a child. Once in the factory, the manager does not give a fair price to the workers, which Aravindhan protests, so he beats the manager very poorly. The factory people now identify Aravindhan’s true identity as a Naxalite. The police comes in search of Aravindhan, who finally surrenders in court. In jail, Aravindhan writes many anti-corruption articles. This gives Aravindhan wide public support to get elected as a minister. The corrupt politicians want to avoid this uprising and hire a gunman to shoot Aravindhan. During a stage speaking with many people around, the gunman shoots and kills Aravindhan, thus precluding him from becoming minister. Some of the scenes (incl. the song “Poovattam”) were shot at Neyveli Coal Mining and at . The music was composed by ‘s youngest son, , who made his debut in this film. , the producer of the film, after hearing some of Yuvan’s tunes, asked him to compose a and after being impressed of it, gave Yuvan the assignment to compose the entire including a soundtrack for that film. Yuvan was 17 years old at the time of the release and one of the youngest composers ever in the industry. worked on the background score for around 10 days. The film was released on 16 February 1997, and failed at the box-office. R. P. R. of found Rathnavelu’s cinematography and Yuvan’s music as the only positives and concluded that the director tried to convey a message of non-violence but for the commercial needs he sacrificed the whole film for the violence.</p>