Alli Arjuna

Alli Arjuna is 2002 Tamil drama film directed by Saran. The film featured Manoj Bharathiraja, Richa Pallod, Dhamu, Charle, Karan and Preetha Vijayakumar in major roles. Music was by A. R. Rahman.

Arivazhagan (Manoj) has grown up to be a good for nothing fellow because of the neglect and ill-treatment by the hands of his parents and his only aim in life is to be an irritant to his father. The entire family attends the marriage of Savitri (Richa) in Bangalore and when the groom disappears, Arivu offers to take his place. The marriage never happens but Savitri shows up at Arivu's house later, asking him to give her refuge. When he moves out of the house to take up residence with his friends, she follows him there too. Initially irritated by her, Arivu realises that he is gradually falling in love with her. Meanwhile, the friends learns that Savitri left her own surroundings just to get over the gruesome suicide of her close friend Nisha (Preetha), a victim of eve-teasing. Nisha's brother Kishore (karan) and her family are still haunted by her death and the brother promises to avenge on the person who was the cause of his sister's death. Who is responsible for Nisha's suicide, and will Arivu succeed on proposing his love towards Savitri forms the rest of the story.

Director Saran united with A R Rahman for the first time after his work with Music director Bharadwaj for his first three films. This would however be their last collaboration after which Director Saran had joined Bharadwaj for the films he had directed after.

The soundtrack of the movie was composed by A.R.Rahman. The lyrics are done by Vairamuthu and Arivumathi. 4 songs are re-used from Rahman's earlier Hindi films Pukar,1947 Earth and One 2 Ka 4. The soundtrack was released in 2001.