Aayirathil Oruvan (2010) on Netflix
In 1279 the Pandyas drive the Cholas from southern India and the emperor hides his heir with a sacred idol. Centuries later Anitha leads a search for a missing archaeologist.
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In 1279, as the Pandyas force the Cholas from their homeland in southern India, the Chola emperor hides his heir and his remaining subjects in a secret territory, and they carry away an idol the Pandyas hold sacred. The refugees are never found. Generations pass; archaeologists hunting the vanished clan keep disappearing, and Chandramouli is the latest. The government sends the officer Anitha with an army unit under Major Ravisekharan, and recruits Chandramouli's estranged daughter, the archaeologist Lavanya, who has the route her father pieced together. Anitha adds a crew of porters led by Muthu. The group reaches Min-gua, an island close to Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, where ancient Chola defenses wait.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Aayirathil Oruvan (2010)
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- Reema Sen signed on for forty days of filming and Andrea Jeremiah for three months, not knowing the shoot would run 263 days; R. Parthiepan was signed for forty days but his segment took 140.
- The film's budget was reported as ₹32 crore at release, but in August 2021 Selvaraghavan said the real figure was ₹18 crore and that the inflated number had been announced to create hype.
- Composer Yuvan Shankar Raja was dropped during filming, and the only song he wrote for the film, "Adada Vaa", was removed and instead reused in Vishnuvardhan's long-delayed Tamil film Sarvam (2009).
- One song in the film is the original 1965 recording of "Atho Andha Paravai" from the earlier film Aayirathil Oruvan, bought from the song's copyright holders in December 2007 and left off the soundtrack album.
- The film was given an adult rating by the Central Board of Film Certification after Selvaraghavan refused to remove some of its gory scenes.
- Eighteen months into shooting, producer R. Ravindran complained to the Tamil Film Producers Council that Karthi was trying to change his look for his next film, Paiyaa, after the long time he had spent on Aayirathil Oruvan.
