Arvind Swamy
Birthday: Born in 1970-07-18 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Deathday: Alive
Arvind Swamy is an Indian film actor, model, entrepreneur and television presenter known for his work in Tamil cinema. He was introduced as an actor by Mani Ratnam with the film Thalapathi (1991) and subsequently starred in successful films such as Roja (1992), Bombay (1995), Minsaara Kanavu (1997) and Alaipayuthey (2000). Swamy also starred in other ventures, including the Telugu film Mounam (1995), the Malayalam film Devaraagam (1996), and the Bollywood film Saat Rang Ke Sapne (1998). Swamy spent a decade in businesses ranging from software engineering, construction, international trade to global outsourcing, before returning to acting with works such as Kadal (2013), Thani Oruvan (2015), Dear Dad (2016), Dhruva (2016), and Bogan (2016). He is the host of the third season of Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi on STAR Vijay.
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நவரசா
Character: Vishnu
From amusement to awe, the nine human emotions of Indian aesthetic theory are explored in this anthology series....
IC 814: द कंधार हाइजैक
Character: D. R. Sivaramakrishnan
When IC 814 gets hijacked on its way to Delhi, hundreds of lives are at stake as the country faces its longest and most alarming aviation crisis....
Cooku with Comali
Character: Self - Guest
Cooku with Comali, also known by the acronym CWC, is an Indian Tamil-language comedy-based cooking competition show aired on Star Vijay and streams on Disney+ Hotstar where the contestants are paired each week with comedians (comalis) who are amateur cooks. The first season premiered on 16 November 2019 and ended on 23 February 2020. The second season was premiered on 14 November 2020 and ended on 14 April 2021. The third season was premiered on 22 January 2022 and ended on 24 July 2022. The con...
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Roja
Character: Rishikumar
Roja lives in a Tamil village, and her sister is about to marry a man from the city, who decides to marry Roja instead and gets a job assignment in Kashmir, where some militants decide to kidnap them....
Bombay
Character: Shekhar Narayanan Pillai
A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where they have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear the family apart....
Kallapart
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Thalapathi
Character: Arjun
Surya, a courageous man who was raised in the slums, fights for the rights of the poor and befriends Deva, who hires him as his commander and changes his life completely....
Alaipayuthey
Character: Collector
Karthik and Shakthi marry against the wishes of their families and start their new life. However, they soon realize that marriage is not the bed of roses they had imagined it would be....
Meiyazhagan
Character: Arulmozhi Varman
Twenty-two years after losing his home, Arulmozhi Varman returns to his native Thanjavur to attend his cousin's wedding. Amidst the celebrations, Arul is reintroduced to an upbeat man whom he cannot recall. With the help of the unknown man, Arul reconnects with his past....
Minsara Kanavu
Character: Thomas Thangadurai
Priya decides that she wants to be a nun, much to the horror of her father and Thomas, the boy who is in love with her. Thomas decides to enlist the help of Deva to change her mind....
Kadal
Character: Sam Fernando
A wrongdoer is caught red-handed and he is not going to forgive the man who exposed him....
Gandhi Talks
Character:
A silent black comedy, about the monetary needs of a character & how it impacts the others. A young, unemployed graduate Mahadev’s struggle to land a job through any means possible and crosses paths with a businessman and petty thief. A subject wherein silence speaks much louder than words. Although a work of fiction by the writer, all the characters in the film are sketched out to seem very real and relatable ensuring an enriching journey as well a laugh riot as the cat and mouse guffaws amongs...
Pudhayal
Character: Kodiesvaran
Madhu steals the map to a treasure during an archaelogical expedition and couriers it to the baddies in the movie. Kodiswaran begins work in this courier firm owned by Tiruchitrambalam. He rents a room in a house where Vijayakumari, Goundamani & Senthil, and Sundari stay. Captain Vishwanath, Vijayakumari's son is Aamni's murai maapillai, but refuses to marry her because of his loyalty to the country. By chance Arvind, who is pursued by Swapna, gets hold of the treasure map and goes hunting - dur...
Indira
Character: Thiyagu
A group of villagers from Maranur, India, and their clash with a neighbouring village leader as their community begins to prosper. Soon, money and greed threaten a will for peaceful coexistence between the two rivalling communities....
Paasamalargal
Character: Raj
In order to earn goodwill, a businessman adopts 6 orphan girls. After the initial friction, he does warm up to them. Meanwhile, a young girl falls in love with him. All goes well till tragedy strikes....
Custody
Character: Rajasekhar "Raju" aka "Razoo"
Siva, a police officer, has to escort a witness to the court. He learns that all the police service wants to kill the witness. An escape begins....
Thani Oruvan
Character: Dr. Siddharth Abhimanyu
An idealistic cop and an ambitious scientist-businessman indulge in a high-stake battle of wits....
En Swasa Kaatre
Character: Arun Raj
A seemingly down-to-earth guy Arun leads a life of a computer hacker by day and thief by night. When he meets Madhu whom he fancies, he wishes to turn over a new leaf....
Singapore Saloon
Character: Special Appearance
A young boy's friendship with a barber inspires him to open his own salon....
Bogan
Character: Adithya Maravarman
A criminal swaps his body with that of the cop who is hunting him....
Dhruva
Character: Siddarth Abhimanyu / Venkanna
A committed police officer is on a very dangerous mission to destroy the most corrupt person in the country, Siddharth Abhimanyu....
Dear Dad
Character: Nitin Swaminathan
Dear Dad is a bittersweet coming of age story; involving a father-son duo – 14 year old Shivam, and his 45 year old dad Nitin Swaminathan. The father-son duo embarks on an impromptu road trip from their home, in Delhi, to Mussorie (Uttarakhand), where Shivam attends boarding school. Unexpected confessions, weird strangers, accidental meetings, a drunken escapade and singing in the rain – all these add up to a complicated and sweet tale....
Sathuranga Vettai 2
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Marupadiyum
Character:
Thulasi is a wife caught up in marital discord. Her husband Muralikrishna, is a movie director who has an extra-marital affair with his star heroine, Kavitha....
Vanangamudi
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Vanangamudi is an upcoming Indian Tamil action drama film written and directed by Selva. The film features Arvind Swamy, Ritika Singh, Chandini Tamilarasan and Nandita Swetha in the lead roles, while Ganesh Venkatraman and Simran play supporting roles. Featuring music composed by D. Imman....
Naragasooran
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Bhaskar Oru Rascal
Character: Bhaskar
Two children raised by single parents want to enjoy the happiness of a complete family. To achieve this, they try to unite their parents, but end up in trouble....
Sasanam
Character: Muthiah
Muthiah and his wife Visalakshi are a loving couple, and they come across Saroji who with no one to go for, takes refuge in Muthiah's house. Muthiah and Saroji develop soft corner towards each other. The rest is what transpires between the trio, exploring the nuances of an extra-marital affair....
Saat Rang Ke Sapne
Character: Mahipal
Forced into marriage with a mentally deranged man, Yashoda (Farida Jalal) gives birth to a child, only to have her husband kill himself and the child, leaving her devastated and alone. This leaves her brother, Bhanu (Anupam Kher) angry and bitter at this loss, and swears to avenge this humiliation. His vengeance is satisfied every year when he asks his employee and close friend, Mahipal (Arvind Swamy) to run a bullock-cart race, and defeat his sister's in-laws, and every year Mahipal wins. Bhanu...
Chekka Chivantha Vaanam
Character: Varadarajan aka Varadan
A bloody power struggle erupts between three brothers who are vying to take over the family business following the death of their father....
Duet
Character: Guest appearance
Two musical brothers look for love, only to have their quest end in tragedy for one....
Devaraagam
Character: Vishnu
Life for Lakshmi turns head over heels when Vishnu the new priest's son, shows up in her village. Lakshmi is instantly intrigued by the new young man in town, and strives to start a relationship with him. Antics and innocent clashes follow and both of them fall in love. Later, problems arise due to Vishnu's status in society. Meanwhile, Lakshmi's marriage is fixed with her cousin....
Pulanaivu
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Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya
Character: Mohit Kumar
Mohit, a young man raised into beliving in fairy tales, comes to Bombay to find Manisha, a young woman whom he saved from drowning in a lake near his village, whom he belives to be an actual mermaid princess....
Thalaivii
Character: M. J. Ramachandran
The biopic charts the life of actor-turned-chief minister J. Jayalalitha and the relationship paving her rapid yet complicated path to power, who served five terms as the Chief Minister for the Indian state of Tamil Nadu....
Ottu
Character: David
Kichu takes up an assignment to befriend a gangster David, who has lost his memories to learn about a valuable gold shipment that has gone missing. Will Kichu pull off the task, or end up waking the monster in the gangster?...
Tanvi the Great
Character: Major Srinivasan
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