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film starring Arundhati and debutante Ramkumar. The film is directed by Sundarra Elangovan. The film was dubbed in Malayalam with the same name and in Hindi as ''Mumbai Ki Kiran Bedi''.

Plot

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. Arundhati plays an encounter specialist named Sathyapriya while debutant Ramkumar plays a civil engineer who gets involved in Sathyapriya's case. To prepare for her role, Arundhati watched films from the same genre including '' Blue Steel'', ''

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''. The film was titled as Arthanari because both the male and female characters have equal importance.

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plays a supporting role while

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plays the antagonist.

Soundtrack

The songs are composed by

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Release

Critical reception

A critic from ''

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'' gave the film one and a half out of five stars and wrote that "There are films that have a scrappy feel about them because of their low budget, but this one doesn’t really feel entirely shoddy". Malini Mannath of ''

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'' wrote that "A stepping stone for a debutant maker, the film could have been an exciting action-flick, if only there had been more clarity and focus in the screenplay and polish in its narrative style". A critic from ''

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'' gave the film a rating of two out of five stars and praised the directors and Arundhati's performance.

References

External links

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