''Arasu'' (King) is a 2007 Indian

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-language romantic drama film directed by

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. It features

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in the

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as the son of a business tycoon who leaves his inherited wealth to make a living on his own upon being rejected by a girl played by

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who he proposes to in marriage. When a middle-class girl played by

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enters their lives, it soon turns out to be a love triangle.

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, Komal and

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appear in supporting roles. Kannada film actors Darshan and

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made cameo appearance. Actress

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also made a cameo appearance in the film, her first Kannada language film.

Plot

Shivaraj Aras is a

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from a rich business family who idles away spending their money. He is advised to return to India by his manager Ramanna to run the well-progressing companies he heads. Once in India, Aras finds it hard to adjust after living a luxurious and carefree in America. He falls in love with Ramanna's daughter Shruthi and proposes marriage, but she blasts his spoiled lifestyle and challenges him to earn at least 5,000 for a month on his own before she can think of considering his proposal, and also makes a caustic remark on the company. This startles Aras who takes up the challenge quitting the company and goes in search of a job. Now on streets without a single penny in his pocket Shivaraj struggles hard. Hungry, he asks for a meal at a hotel and is surprised by the low prices there, but gets thrown out when the hotelier does not believe his promise to pay them back a hundredfold. He finds an old lady selling bananas. He repeats the same and eats two bananas and promises Rs. 200,000 for the old lady after a month. At this stage he finds an ordinary girl Aishwarya. The muscle power of Shivaraj when the rowdies attack her earns good name. Shivaraj also gets a job as a sales representative in the saree shop where Aishwarya is working. He finds a place to live in the small room of Aishwarya. Aishwarya turns very sympathetic and Shivaraj decides to stay in the house for one month. Shivaraj sleeps on the floor and his wonderful behavior and lot of help for the people in his colony gives him a comfortable standing. He owes a lot for Sruthi for her remark that has changed his life style and he is extremely happy with Aishwarya for supporting him in knowing the hard realities in life. Shivaraj is liked immensely by Aishwarya in this one month. On the other hand, Sruthi is also in love with Shivaraj and ready to marry him. It turns out that Sruthi and Aishwarya are actually very close friends. Shivaraj is not aware that Aishwarya is in love with him but Aishwarya declares to Shruthi that she is in love with Shivaraj that surprises her. Now Sruthi decides to give up his love for the sake of her friend Aishwarya. On the other hand, Aishwarya knowing that Sruthi is ready for marriage with Shivaraj also comes forward for sacrifice of her love. Not knowing what to do the intelligent Shivaraj takes a bold step. Without revealing his decision he convinces both to marry his good friends Vijay and Vinay. In return, the friends arrange for another woman Arpitha to come to Shivaraj, with Arphitha suddenly driving in and proclaiming her love for him as the film ends.

Cast

as Shivaraj Aras *

as Shruthi *

as Aishwarya *

as Ramanna * Komal as Daas * Adi Lokesh as Manja * Satyajith as hotelior * P. N. Sathya * Shankar Rao * K. Prakash Shenoy *

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* Ashwath Narayan * NGEF Ramamurthy * Yathiraj * Radhakrishna *

Renukamma Murugodu Renukamma Murugodu was an Indian actress who worked in Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities ...

as fruits seller * Veena * Darshan in a cameo appearance as Vijay *

in a cameo appearance as Vinay *

in a cameo appearance as Arpitha.

Soundtrack

Awards

Filmfare

* Best Actor for

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Arasu (Kannada Film) 2007 films 2000s Kannada-language films Films set in Bangalore Indian romantic drama films Films scored by Joshua Sridhar Films shot in Bangalore Films shot in Germany Films shot in Venice Films directed by Mahesh Babu (director)