Arvind Swamy

Arvind Swamy

Birth : 1970-07-18, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

History

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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Arvind Swamy
Arvind Swamy
Arvind Swamy
Arvind Swamy

Movies

Custody
Raju Aka Raazu
Ottu
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?
Thalaivii
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.
Chekka Chivantha Vaanam
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.
Bhaskar Oru Rascal
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.
Bogan
Adithya Maravarman
A criminal swaps his body with that of the cop who is hunting him.​
Dhruva
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
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.
Thani Oruvan
Dr. Siddharth Abhimanyu
An idealistic cop and an ambitious scientist-businessman indulge in a high-stake battle of wits.
Kadal
Sam Fernando
A wrongdoer is caught red-handed and he is not going to forgive the man who exposed him.
Sasanam
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.
Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya
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.
Alaipayuthey
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.
En Swasa Kaatre
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.
Saat Rang Ke Sapne
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, 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.
Pudhayal
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 - during a crossfire between the army and the baddies.
Iruvar
Playback Singer
A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.
Minsara Kanavu
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.
Devaraagam
Vishnu
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.
Indira
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.
Bombay
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.
Priyanka
Raju
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.
Duet
Guest appearance
Two musical brothers look for love, only to have their quest end in tragedy for one.
Paasamalargal
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.
Marupadiyum
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.
Roja
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.
Daddy
Anand
Daddy is a 1992 Indian Malayalam-language (semi hit) film starring Arvind Swamy, Gouthami Tadimalla and Suresh Gopi.
Thalapathi
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.
Gandhi Talks
Kallapart
Pulanaivu
Naragasooran
Vanangamudi
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.
Sathuranga Vettai 2