In one of the latter day films that was a roaring success, Mankaatha, Arjun played a parallel role to Ajith who was in the lead. The same director has again cast Arjun in Moondru Per Moondru Kathal where he will be sharing the frames with two other heroes, Vimal and Cheran. The duo later develop strong feelings for each other and finally, in a striking denouement, they get together with Meena’s son playing the driving force behind the union. Jyothika, Arjun’s wife, perishes in an accident and Meena too loses her husband in the same train accident.
The softer side of the actor was visible in the Vasanth-directed Rhythm, where he played a widower alongside established stars like Meena and Jyothika. Like Gentleman, Mudhalvan too had a good run at the box- office. Here again, the film had a novel theme where the hero, a civil rights crusader, is made the chief minister of the state for one day. Shankar, who later became one of the biggest names in Tamil cinema, again placed his faith in Arjun when he made the film Mudhalvan. Arjun, who was paired with Madhoo in the film, hogged the frames with an excellent performance, his dancing skills complementing his quicksilver reflexes in the action sequences. Gentleman had an unusual theme of an innocent villager who takes to crime to avenge the deaths of his brother and mother. But he has also changed gears to work in soft romantic films, and has met with success in that genre too.Īrjun made his debut in Tamil in the film Nandri, but the film that really catapulted him to the big league was Shankar’s Gentleman, which incidentally marked the director’s debut as well. Arjun, just a year shy of 50, has earned his spurs in the film industry as a martial artiste, and most of his films have excellently choreographed action sequences. But, in the Tamil film industry, nobody says no to Mani and neither did Arjun who, however, had to add a dud film to his filmography.Īrjun, a Kannadiga, son of actor Shakti Prasad, after doing a few listless films in Kannada, found acceptance in a big way in Tamil cinema and has acted in nearly a couple of 100 films in as many as five languages. One of the reasons attributed for the much-hyped Mani Ratnam film Kadal turning out to be a damp squib at the box-office was the casting of ‘Action King’ Arjun in a negative role.Īrjun Sarja, who has been donning the hero’s mantle for nearly three decades ever since he made his debut in the Kannada film Putaani Agent 1-2-3, directed by Rajendra Singh Babu, and released in 1984, was totally ill at ease in the film in which a Mani discovery, Arvind Swamy, played the pivotal role of the protagonist.
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