Pichaikkaran

Pichaikkaran
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySasi
Written bySasi
Story byAkyes
Produced byFatima Vijay Antony
StarringVijay Antony
Satna Titus
Dheepa Ramanujam
CinematographyPrasanna Kumar
Edited byVeera Senthil Raj
Music byVijay Antony
Production
company
Vijay Antony Film Corporation
Distributed byKR Films
Skylark Entertainment
Release date
  • 4 March 2016 (2016-03-04) (India)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil
Box officeest.₹42.25 cr[1]

Pichaikkaaran (transl. Beggar) is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Sasi, produced by Fatima Vijay Antony and starring Vijay Antony and Satna Titus, Bagavathi Perumal, Vazhakku En Muthuraman, and Dheepa Ramanujam. Antony also composed the music for the film.[2][3] The story is about Arul (Vijay Antony), a billionaire businessman who leads a 48-day long secret life as a beggar as part of a religious offering to save his hopeless dying mother.

Pichaikkaaran was released on 4 March 2016 to positive reviews from critics and became a blockbuster at the box office.[4] The film was remade in Odia as Baby, in Marathi as Bhikari and in Kannada as Amma I Love You.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Pichaikkaran & Bichagadu collections was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Music director Vijay Antony to become a 'Pichaikaran'". behindwoods.com. Archived from the original on 24 August 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Vijay Antony commences his new film". Sify. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Review : Pichaikkaran review: Entertaining". Sify. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Each time I have worked on a remake my compositions have stood out:Gurukiran", Times of India, 9 June 2018, archived from the original on 16 June 2018, retrieved 12 June 2018