Aranmanai (film series)

Aranmanai
Aranmanai
	Series logo
Directed by	Sundar C.
Written by	Dialogues:; Venkat Raghavan (1&2); Sundar C. (3&4); ;
Screenplay by	Sundar C.; S.B.Ramadoss; Venkat Raghavan; ;
Story by	Sundar C.
Produced by	D. Dinesh Karthik (1); Khushbu (2, 3, 4); ;
Starring	see below
Cinematography	U. K. Senthil Kumar (1, 2, 3); E. Krishnasamy (4); ;
Edited by	Srikanth.N.B (1&2); Fenny Oliver (3&4); ;
Music by	Original Songs:; Bharadwaj, Karthik Raja (1); Hiphop Tamizha (2&4); C. Sathya (3); ;
Production; company	Vision i Medias (1); Avni Cinemax (2, 3, 4); ;
Distributed by	Red Giant Movies (1&3); Sri Thenandal Films (1&2); ;
Release date	1: 19 September 2014; 2: 29 January 2016; 3: 14 October 2021; 4: 3 May 2024; ;
Running time	452 minutes (3 films)
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	₹60 crore (US$7.5 million) (3 films)
Box office	₹214 crore (US$27 million) (3 films)

Aranmanai (transl. Palace) is an Indian Tamil-language comedy horror film series created by Sundar C., consisting of Aranmanai (2014), Aranmanai 2 (2016), Aranmanai 3 (2021) and Aranmanai 4 (2024), all directed by him.

Overview

The films are not connected with each other. Each film typically revolves around a family at a palace that is haunted by supernatural events.^[1]

Sundar,

Hansika, Manobala and Chitra Lakshmanan who appear in the first film, appear in the second film and also appear in third film playing different roles while Andrea Jeremiah, Vinay Rai, Raai Laxmi, Santhanam, Siddharth, Trisha, Poonam Bajwa, Soori, Arya, Raashii Khanna, Vivek, Nalini, Yogi Babu, Sakshi Agarwal playing a lead roles in a respective series. All films were successful at the box office, continuing the trend of the comedy horror genre in Kollywood that began with Chandramukhi (2005).^[2]^[3]^[4]

Films

Film	Release date	Director	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Runtime	Status
Aranmanai	19 September 2014	Sundar C.	Sundar C S.B.Ramadoss Venkat Raghavan	D. Dinesh Karthick	161 minutes	Released
Aranmanai 2	29 January 2016			Khushbu	136 minutes
Aranmanai 3	14 October 2021			Khushbu Sundar C A.C.S. Arunkumar A.C. Shanmugam	156 minutes
Aranmanai 4 †	3 May 2024			Sundar C Khushbu A.C.S. Arunkumar	TBA	To be released on 3 May 2024

Aranmanai (2014): A family returns to their hometown to sell their ancestral palace. However, their arrival is marred by supernatural events, and Ravi, a relative of the family, decides to uncover the truth.^[5]
Aranmanai 2 (2016): Murali returns to his ancestral home along with his fiancée when his father lands in a coma under mysterious circumstances. His life takes a turn when he uncovers his family's dark secrets.^[6]
Aranmanai 3 (2021): Jyothi is haunted by an unknown spirit in her childhood. Years later, when the spirit starts haunting someone close to her, she decides to unearth the spirit's connection with her family.^[7]
Aranmanai 4 (2024): A lawyer tries to discover the truth of his sister's mysterious death, soon he gets caught into the trap of a dangerous demon called Baak.^[8]

Cast

Aranmanai

Sundar C. as Ravi, a lawyer and Madhavi's brother.
Vinay Rai as Murali, Madhavi's husband and Selvi's former lover in the past.
Hansika Motwani as Selvi, a village girl and Murali's former lover in the past who get killed by Ayyanar.
Andrea Jeremiah as Madhavi, Ravi's sister and Murali's wife who get possessed by Selvi's spirit
Raai Laxmi as Maya, Sivaraman's daughter and Ravi's love interest
Santhanam as Paalsamy, A thief who enter the palace by servant.
Kovai Sarala as Eshwari
Manobala as Kesavan, Eshwari's husband
Nithin Sathya as Mulian Kannan, Eshwari's and Kesavan's son
Meera Krishnan as Lakshmi, Murali's mother
Chitra Lakshmanan as Sivaraman
Saravanan as Ayyanar, Main antagonist
Baby Priya as Meena
Ganeshkar as Nallamuthu
Swaminathan as Nachimithu
Akila as Ramya, Selvi's unblood sister
Yogi Babu as Sagidi, a fortune teller
Santhana Bharathi as Chairman Paramasivam
Kadhal Dhandapani as Rangan
Vichu Vishwanath as Samikannu
Gowtham Sundararajan as Inspector Ramkumar
Manikka Vinayagam as devotional singer
Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram as devotional singer
Sivasankar as devotional singer
Aarthi as Aarthi (Cameo appearance)

Aranmanai 2

Siddharth as Murali, elder Brother of Maya, younger brother of Ramesh, Anitha's fiancée
Sundar C. as Ravi, Anitha's brother, Manju's love interest, who was lastly possessed by Maya's spirit
Hansika Motwani as Maya, the spirit, Arun's wife, Ramesh and Murali's sister, who wants revenge for her husband and her child's death
Trisha as Anitha, Ravi's sister, Murali's fiancée, who is possessed by Maya's spirit
Poonam Bajwa as Manju, a nurse, Ravi's love interest
Soori as Devadas & Sandhu Bondhu Naadimuthu, Devadas's father
Kovai Sarala as Komalam, Vera Shekar's sister, Sandhu Bondhu Naadimuthu's ex-lover, a servant
Manobala as Vera Shekar, Komalam's brother, a servant
Vinodhini Vaidyanathan as Sandhya, Murali's sister-in-law and Ramesh's wife, Suresh's mother
Nithin Manivannan as Suresh, Ramesh's son
Radha Ravi as Murali, Ramesh and Maya's father, who kills Maya and her child
Subbu Panchu as Ramesh, Murali and Maya's brother, Suresh's father, who kills Arun (Maya's Husband)
Raj Kapoor
as Driver, who helps to kill Maya, Arun and their child
Chitra Lakshmanan as Ravi and Anitha's father
V. I. S. Jayapalan as Namboothiri, Manju's uncle, who helps Ravi, Murali and Suresh to save them from Maya
Dhindukal Saravanan as Devadas's assistant
Thalapathy Dinesh as Namboothiri's assistant
Vichu Vishwanath as Namboothiri's assistant
Rahul Thatha as a priest
Vaibhav as Arun, Maya's husband (cameo)
Khushbu
in a special appearance for "Amma (the Amman song)"
Hiphop Tamizha Adhi
as himself in the song "Party with the Pei"

Aranmanai 3

Sundar. C
as Ravi, Hema's husband, Shalu's father, who helps Jyothi to discover the truth
Arya as Saravanan, an electrician, Nandhini's love interest who is possessed by Eeshwari's and her lover's spirits
Raashii Khanna as Jyothi , Saravanan's love interest, believed to be the daughter of Rajasekhar and Eeshwari, but actually secretly adopted after Eeshwari's death, the biological daughter of Durai (voice dubbed by Smruthi K)
- Veronika Arora as Young Jyothi^[9]
Andrea Jeremiah as Eeshwari (Raani), the spirit, Rajasekhar's late wife, who wants revenge for her child's death, and tries to kill Jyothi
Sakshi Agarwal as Hema, Ravi's wife, Shalu's mother, Sarala's daughter
Vivek as Sigamani, a failed politician, Mynavathi's husband and Rajasekhar's brother-in-law^[10]
Yogi Babu as Abhishek, a thief, Saravanan's friend, who hid what he believed to be a bag of gold at the palace, and later comes to claim it
Myna Nandhini as Mynavathi, Sigamani's wife, Sarala and Rajasekhar's sister
Sampath Raj as Rajasekhar, a Zamindar, Sarala's younger brother & Mynavathi's elder brother, Jyothi's adopted father and Eeshwari's husband, who kills her and her child
Nalini as Sarala, Rajasekhar and Mynavathi's elder sister, Hema's mother, Ravi's mother- in-law, Shalu's grandmother
Cell Murugan as Manickam
Manobala as Pencil, a thief, Abhishek's assistant
Vela Ramamoorthy as Saamiyaadi, and Eeshwari's lover's father, who helps Rajashekar trap Eeshwari's spirit
Ovi Bhandarkar as Shalu, Sarala's granddaughter, Ravi and Hema's daughter, who was haunted by the spirit^[11]
Amit Bhargav as Samikannu, Eeshwari's lover, Saamiyaadi's Son, who killed by Durai
Vincent Ashokan as Durai, a driver, Jyothi’s biological father, who was help to kill Eeshwari and her child, killed by Eeshwari's spirit
Vichu Vishwanath as Kaali, a gardener, who was help to kill Eeshwari and her child, killed by Eeshwari's spirit
Kulappulli Leela as Valliamma, a cook, who was help to kill Eeshwari and her child, killed by Eeshwari's spirit
Sri Ganesh as IAS Collector
Madhusudan Rao as Vallimalai Swamiji, who helps Ravi and Jyothi to save them from the spirits^[12]
Hariharan as Devotional Singer (Special appearance in the song "Theeyaga Thondri")
Shankar Mahadevan as Devotional Singer (Special appearance in the song "Theeyaga Thondri")
C.Sathya
as a special appearance in the song "Theeyaga Thondri"

Aranmanai 4

Special appearance

Khushbu Sundar in a song^[13]
Simran in a song^[14]

Character identification

Character(s)	Film(s)
Character(s)	Aranmanai (2014)	Aranmanai 2 (2016)	Aranmanai 3 (2021)	Aranmanai 4 (2024)
Director	Sundar C.
Sundar's lover(s)	Raai Laxmi	Poonam Bajwa	Sakshi Agarwal	Raashii Khanna
Male lead(s)	Vinay Rai	Siddharth	Arya	Santhosh Prathap
Female lead(s)	Andrea Jeremiah	Trisha	Raashii Khanna
Spirit(s)	Hansika Motwani		Andrea Jeremiah	Tamannaah Bhatia
Sprit possessed	Andrea Jeremiah	Trisha, Sundar C	Arya	TBA
Villain(s)	Saravanan	Radha Ravi, Subbu Panchu	Sampath Raj, Vincent Ashokan	Ramachandra Raju, Jayaprakash
Comedian(s)	Santhanam, Kovai Sarala, Manobala	Soori, Manobala, Kovai Sarala	Manobala, Nalini, Yogi Babu, Vivek, Myna Nandhini	Yogi Babu, Kovai Sarala, VTV Ganesh, Singampuli
Child Artist(s)	Priya	Nithin Manivannan	Veronika Arora, Ovi Bhandarkar	Deva Nandha, Sanjay
Special Appearance(s)	Sivasankar, Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram, Manikka Vinayagam	Hiphop Tamizha Aadhi	Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan, C. Sathya	Khusbhu, Simran

Crew

Occupation	Film
Occupation	Aranmanai (2014)	Aranmanai 2 (2016)	Aranmanai 3 (2021)	Aranmanai 4 (2024)
Director	Sundar C.
Producer	D. Dinesh Karthick	Khushbu	Khushbu Sundar C A.C.S. Arunkumar A.C. Shanmugam	Khushbu Sundar C A.C.S. Arunkumar
Screenplay	Sundar C. S.B.Ramadoss		Sundar C Venkat Raghavan
Writer	Venkat Raghavan	Venkat Raghavan Sundar C.	Sundar C Venkat Raghavan S.B.Ramadass
Cinematography	U. K. Senthil Kumar			E Krishnasamy
Editor	Srikanth N.B.		Fenny Oliver
Composer(s)	Bharadwaj Karthik Raja (score)	Hiphop Tamizha	C. Sathya	Hiphop Tamizha
Studio	Vision i Medias	Avni Cinemax	Avni Cinemax Benzz Media (P) Ltd.

Home media

Films	Satellite Rights	Digital Rights
Aranmanai	Sun TV	Sun NXT
Aranmanai 2	Sun TV	Sun NXT
Aranmanai 3	Kalaignar TV	ZEE 5
Aranmanai 4 †	Sun TV	TBA

References

^ "Tamil Box Office Collection 2021 Report [Hit, Profit & Loss]". Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
^ Gupta, Rinku (19 May 2014). "'A Big Family House is the Heroine in Horror-Comedy Film Aranmanai'". New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 5 August 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
^ Srinivasan, Sudhir (23 September 2016). "Aranmanai-2 : More navel than novel". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
^ Bureau, N. T. (18 January 2020). "Sundar C gets ready for Aranmanai 3". News Today | First with the news. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
^ "Aranmanai (aka) Aranmanai review". www.behindwoods.com. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
^ "Review : Aranmanai 2 Review: Ghosts & laughs (2016)". Sify. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016.
^ "Aranmanai 3 review: A torturous horror comedy that goes on and on". The News Minute. 14 October 2021. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
^ Features, C. E. (12 April 2024). "First single 'Achacho' from Aranmanai 4 to release on April 14". Cinema Express. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
^ VERONIKA ARORA [@VERONIKAARORRA] (24 April 2021). "Super happy to be part of this..my second south movie#bigBanner #Aranmanai3" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 24 April 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021 – via Twitter.
^ "'Aranmanai 3' first look poster out, one of the last few films of Vivek!". Sify. 22 April 2021. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
^ Ovi Bhandarkar [@OviBhandarkar] (17 April 2021). "Did my 1st film with this legend .. So kind, helpful he was.. Still can't believe he left us.. #ripviveksir" (Tweet). Retrieved 14 June 2021 – via Twitter.
^ "Big news from Aranmanai 3 team". News Today. 20 November 2020. Archived from the original on 12 June 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
^ "ARANMANAI 4 Trailer Breakdown" (in Tamil). Delite Cinemas. Archived from the original on 2 April 2024. Retrieved 30 March 2024 – via YouTube.
^ "THIS veteran actress to make a special appearance in Sundar C's 'Aranmanai 4'". The Times of India. 31 March 2024. Archived from the original on 31 March 2024. Retrieved 2 April 2024.

[1] "Tamil Box Office Collection 2021 Report [Hit, Profit & Loss]". Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.

[2] Gupta, Rinku (19 May 2014). "'A Big Family House is the Heroine in Horror-Comedy Film Aranmanai'". New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 5 August 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2019.

[3] Srinivasan, Sudhir (23 September 2016). "Aranmanai-2 : More navel than novel". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2019.

[4] Bureau, N. T. (18 January 2020). "Sundar C gets ready for Aranmanai 3". News Today | First with the news. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.

[5] "Aranmanai (aka) Aranmanai review". www.behindwoods.com. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.

[6] "Review : Aranmanai 2 Review: Ghosts & laughs (2016)". Sify. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016.

[7] "Aranmanai 3 review: A torturous horror comedy that goes on and on". The News Minute. 14 October 2021. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2021.

[8] Features, C. E. (12 April 2024). "First single 'Achacho' from Aranmanai 4 to release on April 14". Cinema Express. Retrieved 13 April 2024.

[9] VERONIKA ARORA [@VERONIKAARORRA] (24 April 2021). "Super happy to be part of this..my second south movie#bigBanner #Aranmanai3" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 24 April 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021 – via Twitter.

[10] "'Aranmanai 3' first look poster out, one of the last few films of Vivek!". Sify. 22 April 2021. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.

[11] Ovi Bhandarkar [@OviBhandarkar] (17 April 2021). "Did my 1st film with this legend .. So kind, helpful he was.. Still can't believe he left us.. #ripviveksir" (Tweet). Retrieved 14 June 2021 – via Twitter.

[12] "Big news from Aranmanai 3 team". News Today. 20 November 2020. Archived from the original on 12 June 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.

[13] "ARANMANAI 4 Trailer Breakdown" (in Tamil). Delite Cinemas. Archived from the original on 2 April 2024. Retrieved 30 March 2024 – via YouTube.

[14] "THIS veteran actress to make a special appearance in Sundar C's 'Aranmanai 4'". The Times of India. 31 March 2024. Archived from the original on 31 March 2024. Retrieved 2 April 2024.

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v t e Filmography of Sundar C.
As a director	Murai Maman (1995) Murai Mappillai (1996) Ullathai Allitha (1996) Mettukudi (1996) Arunachalam (1997) Janakiraman (1997) Naam Iruvar Namakku Iruvar (1998) Unnai Thedi (1999) Suyamvaram (1999) Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga (1999) Azhagarsamy (2000) Kannan Varuvaan (2000) Unnai Kann Theduthey (2000) Ullam Kollai Poguthae (2001) Rishi (2001) Azhagana Naatkal (2001) Anbe Sivam (2003) Winner (2003) Giri (2004) Chinna (2005) London (2005) Thaka Thimi Tha (2005) Rendu (2006) Nagaram Marupakkam (2010) Kalakalappu (2012) Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru (2013) Aranmanai (2014) Aambala (2015) Aranmanai 2 (2016) Kalakalappu 2 (2018) Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven (2019) Action (2019) Aranmanai 3 (2021) Coffee with Kadhal (2022) Aranmanai 4 (2024)
As a producer	Meesaya Murukku (2017) Natpe Thunai (2019) Naan Sirithal (2020) Naanga Romba Busy (2020) Pattampoochi (2022)
See also	Avni Cinemax Aranmanai (film series)