Arvind Swamy

Arvind Swamy

Born: July 18, 1970
in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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.

Movies for Arvind Swamy...

Custody
Title: Custody
Character: Rajasekhar "Raju" aka "Razoo"
Released: May 12, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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Ottu
Title: Ottu
Character: David
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: Movie
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?
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Thalaivii
Title: Thalaivii
Character: M. J. Ramachandran
Released: September 10, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Navarasa
Character: Vishnu
Released: August 6, 2021
Type: TV
From amusement to awe, the nine human emotions of Indian aesthetic theory are explored in this anthology series.
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Chekka Chivantha Vaanam
Title: Chekka Chivantha Vaanam
Character: Varadarajan aka Varadan
Released: September 27, 2018
Type: Movie
A bloody power struggle erupts between three brothers who are vying to take over the family business following the death of their father.
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Bhaskar Oru Rascal
Title: Bhaskar Oru Rascal
Character: Bhaskar
Released: May 17, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Bogan
Title: Bogan
Character: Adithya Maravarman
Released: February 2, 2017
Type: Movie
A criminal swaps his body with that of the cop who is hunting him.​
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Dhruva
Title: Dhruva
Character: Siddarth Abhimanyu / Venkanna
Released: October 7, 2016
Type: Movie
A committed police officer is on a very dangerous mission to destroy the most corrupt person in the country, Siddharth Abhimanyu.
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Dear Dad
Title: Dear Dad
Character: Nitin Swaminathan
Released: May 6, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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Thani Oruvan
Title: Thani Oruvan
Character: Dr. Siddharth Abhimanyu
Released: August 28, 2015
Type: Movie
An idealistic cop and an ambitious scientist-businessman indulge in a high-stake battle of wits.
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Kadal
Title: Kadal
Character: Sam Fernando
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A wrongdoer is caught red-handed and he is not going to forgive the man who exposed him.
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Sasanam
Title: Sasanam
Character: Muthiah
Released: July 28, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya
Title: Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya
Character: Mohit Kumar
Released: December 22, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Alaipayuthey
Title: Alaipayuthey
Character: Collector
Released: April 14, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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En Swasa Kaatre
Title: En Swasa Kaatre
Character: Arun Raj
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Saat Rang Ke Sapne
Title: Saat Rang Ke Sapne
Character: Mahipal
Released: February 20, 1998
Type: Movie
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, in his mid forties, has still not married, although he used to actively woo a village belle (Aruna Irani), who still has feelings for him.
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Pudhayal
Title: Pudhayal
Character: Kodiesvaran
Released: January 30, 1997
Type: Movie
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 - during a crossfire between the army and the baddies.
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Minsara Kanavu
Title: Minsara Kanavu
Character: Thomas Thangadurai
Released: January 14, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Devaraagam
Title: Devaraagam
Character: Vishnu
Released: April 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Life for Lakshmi turns head over heels when Vishnu the new priest's son and priest-in-training, shows up in her village. Lakshmi is instantly intrigued by the new young man in town, and strives to start a relationship with him. Certain antics and innocent clashes follow and both of them fall in love. Later, problems arose due to Vishnu's status in society; i. e. he is a bramhachari and cannot marry. Meanwhile Lakshmi's marriage is fixed with her cousin and she has to go through the ordeal.
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Indira
Title: Indira
Character: Thiyagu
Released: May 11, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Bombay
Title: Bombay
Character: Shekhar Narayanan Pillai
Released: March 10, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Priyanka
Title: Priyanka
Character: Raju
Released: May 27, 1994
Type: Movie
In the Southern part of India, there are two communities living - separated by caste and hatred of each other. The lower caste community has a young woman named Priyanka, who would like to reform and build relationship with both the communities. However, when the leader of the upper caste community proposes that she marry his younger brother, Priyanka refuses, for she loves Raju, an educated village orphan, As a result, the division between the two communities grows, so much so that Priyanka's dad is killed, and she herself is assaulted. Then the communities are hit by heavy torrential rain and floods, which lead to the collapse of the upper caste community, and the question remains: will the lower caste, who have always been oppressed by the upper caste people, forgo their differences and assist them, or will they stand by and watch them being swept away.
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Duet
Title: Duet
Character: Guest appearance
Released: May 20, 1994
Type: Movie
Two musical brothers look for love, only to have their quest end in tragedy for one.
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Paasamalargal
Title: Paasamalargal
Character: Raj
Released: February 5, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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Marupadiyum
Title: Marupadiyum
Released: January 14, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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Roja
Title: Roja
Character: Rishikumar
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Daddy
Title: Daddy
Character: Anand
Released: June 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Daddy is a 1992 Indian Malayalam-language (semi hit) film starring Arvind Swamy, Gouthami Tadimalla and Suresh Gopi.
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Thalapathi
Title: Thalapathi
Character: Arjun
Released: November 5, 1991
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Indian Airlines flight hijacked en route Kathmandu-Delhi on Dec 24, 1999, diverting to Kandahar under Taliban control.
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Karthi 27
Title: Karthi 27
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Gandhi Talks
Title: Gandhi Talks
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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 amongst them unfold. Gandhi Talks aims at telling a story by switching off the device of dialogue, which is not only scary but also interesting and challenging.
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Vanangamudi
Title: Vanangamudi
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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Sathuranga Vettai 2
Title: Sathuranga Vettai 2
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Naragasooran
Title: Naragasooran
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Pulanaivu
Title: Pulanaivu
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Kallapart
Title: Kallapart
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie