Arasatchi
A law-abiding man goes behind bars when he beats up the crook who tries to rape his sister. While he is in prison, his parents are killed and his sister is abducted. He gets out of the prison to avenge his parents and find his sister.
Directed by N. Maharajan · Action · Crime · Drama · 2004
Director
N. Maharajan
Writer
N. Maharajan
Studio
Cee (I)TV Entertainment(p)ltd
Release
2004
Genres
Action, Crime, Drama
Full Plot
Siddharth lives a middle-classed lifestyle in India along with his dad, retired Justice Shravan Mathur, mom, Laxmi, and sister, Shweta. His dad has been assigned the task to investigate the collapse of a school-building which killed 20 children. The building contractor attempts to bribe Shravan to no avail. When he molests Shweta, Siddharth beats him up, gets arrested, is tried in Court, and sentenced to jail. In jail he is told that his father and mother have been killed by thieves abroad a train headed to Mumbai, and Shweta is missing. After his discharge he attempts in vain to locate Shweta. He takes up employment with a five star hotel, romances the owner's daughter, and decides to kill defense lawyers. He successfully kills advocates Brahmanandan, Jankiram, and scares off Karuna Sagar who was ready to represent a male who had sexually molested a woman named Gayetri. While the accused has no one to represent him in Court, a Delhi-based Supreme Court lawyer, Ashok Mehta, agrees to represent him despite of threats from Siddharth, who is determined to kill him at any cost little knowing that his past will not only re-visit him, but a witness, Major Vishwanath, will come forward, ready to identify him as the killer of Advocate Jankiram.
Cast & Characters
Lead
Lara Dutta
Supporting
Riya Sen
Supporting
Karan
Supporting
Raghuvaran
Rajesh, Lara's father
S. Ve. Shekher
Menaka, Prakash's wife
Vindhya
Advocate Janakiraman
Charan Raj
Saravanaperumal, Siddharth's father
P. Vasu
Swetha, Siddharth's sister
Abitha
Did You Know?
Arjun appears in 12 films in our catalog, including Oru Melliya Kodu, Jai Hind 2.
Source: theIReview.com catalog · verified 2026-08-02
After the success of Vallarasu, Maharajan was supposed to direct Vijayakanth in another project but later got dropped and Maharajan went on to remake Vallarasu in Hindi as Indian with Sunny Deol.
Source: Wikipedia · verified 2026-08-03
Malini Mannath wrote for Chennai Online, "A knot had potential and would have been ideal for the 'action king' if only the screenplay had been etched more carefully, the narration tightened, with more 'action' given to Arjun than to factors like tanker-blasts, etc.
Source: Wikipedia · verified 2026-08-03
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Arasatchi has a 6.2/10 rating on IMDb from 75 votes.
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Arasatchi was directed by N. Maharajan.
