Pichaikkaran

Pichaikkaran
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Directed by	Sasi
Produced by	Fatima Vijay Antony
Written by	Sasi
Starring	Vijay Antony Satna Titus
Music by	Vijay Antony
Cinematography	Prasanna Kumar
Edited by	Veera Senthil Raj
Production company	Vijay Antony Film Corporation
Distributed by	KR films
Release date	4 March 2016 (2016-03-04)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Box office	est. ₹34 crore

Pichaikkaran (English: Beggar) is a 2016 Indian Tamil action thriller film directed by Sasi, starring Vijay Antony in the lead role. The film released on 4 March 2016. The Telugu dubbed version was titled as Bichagadu and was released on 13 May 2016. In 2017, the film was dubbed into Hindi as Roadside Rowdy.

Arul (Vijay Antony) is a rich businessman based out of Palladam, Tirupur district. His mother Bhuvaneshwari (Dheepa Ramanujam) is the person behind the growth of their textile business following her husband’s early death. Avinashi (Muthuraman) is her brother-in-law who is money minded and has plans to grab Arul’s properties. Arul returns from abroad after graduation and takes charge of all the business responsibilities from his mother. In the meantime, Bhuvaneshwari meets with an accident in the factory and falls into a coma with all the efforts taken by Arul goes in vain to cure her. Finally, Arul meets a Swamiji who suggests that Arul should lead a life of a beggar for 48 days and this would help his mother to recover. He also says that Arul should never reveal this to anyone.

Arul accepts and goes to Chennai to beg without informing any one and only his friend Rajesh (Bagavathi Perumal) knows the truth as he has been asked to look after the business until he comes back. Arul sits along with a few other beggars in front of a temple and starts begging. He meets Magizhini (Satna Titus) and develops affection seeing her good nature. Actually Arul and his mother had initially decided to approach Magizhini for an alliance through a matrimonial site. Magizhini also encounters Arul in a few situations and likes his character not knowing that he is a beggar. Avinashi tries to take over Arul’s businesses as both Arul and his mother are unavailable now. Magizhini finds out that Arul is a beggar and gets angry thinking Arul has cheated her but still could not avoid him as she is impressed more by his good nature. One day Magizhini’s mother sees Arul’s photo in her laptop and says that he is a rich businessman and also she had sent her photos to him through matrimony website a few months back. Magizhini is shocked hearing this and goes to meet Arul where she overhears the conversation between Arul and Rajesh which makes her realise Arul’s life as a beggar is to save his mother and she is impressed a lot seeing his good nature. Magizhini decides not to disturb Arul until his life as a beggar is complete.