Aarilirunthu Arubathu Varai

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name = Aarilirunthu Arubathu Varai
In English: From six till sixty


caption = Rajini in Aarilirunthu Arubathu Varai
director = S.P.Muthuraman
writer =
starring = Rajnikanth
Cho
Jaya
Jayalakshmi
producer = Meena
music = Ilayaraja
editor =
released = 14^th Sep 1979
runtime = 150 minutes
language = Tamil
budget =
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"Aarilirunthu Arubathu Varai" is a 1979 Tamil film directed by S. P. Muthuraman and starring Rajinikanth. [http://www.rajinikanth.com/songs/aarilirunthuarubathuvarais.htm Rajnikanth.com - Songs - Aarilirunthu Arubathu Varai] ] It was produced by Meena. The cast also included Thilak, Cho, Thangai Seenivasan, T.K.Bakavathi, Jayalakshmi, Sangeetha, Jaya and Mallika.

The music was composed by Ilayaraja. The songs were sung by S. P. Balasubramaniam, S. P. Sailaja, Jaichandran and S. Janaki. The lyrics were penned by Panchu Arunachalam.

The success of Rajnikanth's previous movie, Bhuvana Oru Kelvikkuri encouraged the director, Muthuraman, to cast Rajnikanth in a melodramatic, sacrificial role in "Aarilirunthu Arubathu Varai". While making the film, Rajinikanth had misgivings whether the audience would accept him in such a melodrama since he had been an entertainer till then. However, the box-office success of the film made him popular among women audiences and is considered a turning point in his career.Wikipedia - Rajinikanth]

The film was screened for 25 weeks in the Midland theatre, Chennai. [http://www.rajinikanth.com/boxoffice.htm Rajnikanth.com - Box Office] ]

Plot

The story begins with a young boy, the eldest son of a poor widow barely able to make ends meet, doing odd jobs along with working at a printing press to provide income to his family and to provide education to his 2 younger brothers and younger sister, sacrificing his own education. He grows up to become Santhanam (Rajinikanth).

Due to his extreme poverty, his lover in the office (Jaya) ditches him for a rich person and he ends up marrying Lakshmi (Jayalakshmi), a poor girl. Being extremely poor, they could not even feed their children, let alone live comfortably. He keeps getting money from his friend (Cho Ramaswamy) for almost everything. His younger brothers, having studied and become rich, refuse to help him. His younger sister, for whom Santhanam had spent all his money in order to conduct her marriage, treats him very badly whenever he goes to visit her. He is even fired from his job by his old employer's son who took over the press when the former becomes paralysed after an accident.

Eventually, Santhanam leaves his house as he didn't have money to pay the rent even after selling everything they had and he and his family move to a slum. Here he begins to write stories for a magazine in order to earn money. Slowly he becomes rich as his stories were very popular. The movie ends with Santhanam becoming a famous author, his children being sent abroad for higher education and his younger siblings beginning to treat him with respect.

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