Cast

Credited cast:
	Mammootty	...	Chandrasekhar
	Roja	...	Supriya
	Mansoor Ali Khan	...	Venkatraman
	Anandaraj	...	Vikram
	Charan Raj	...	Marudapandi
	Jai Ganesh	...	Shanmugasundaram
	Thyagu	...	Thiruvasagam
	Madhan Bob	...	Vishnu
	Pallavi	...	Vasanthi
	Shilpa Shirodkar	...	Anita Sharma

Storyline

Arasiyal (English: Politics) is an Indian 1997 Tamil language film directed by R. K. Selvamani. The film features Mammootty, Shilpa Shirodkar and Roja in lead roles. The film, produced by Motherland Movies Internationals, had musical score by Vidyasagar and was released on 12 December 1997 to mixed reviews.

Chandrasekhar (Mammootty) is an honest collector who arrests Vikram (Anandaraj), an international terrorist, in Delhi. He's transferred to Madras to eradicate the corruption. Chandrasekhar has two sisters, Priya (Jeeva) and Supriya (Roja). Priya is in love with Marudapandi (Charan Raj), a hopeless police officer and Chandrasekhar's friend. Meanwhile, Chandrasekhar is in love with Anita Sharma, a Punjabi girl, who he met in Delhi. Venkatraman, a corrupt politician, is suspected by Chandrasekhar for corruption. 

Chandrasekhar takes actions against his brothers-in-law, Vishnu (Madhan Bob) and Ramkumar (Udaya Prakash) and sent them to jail. Chandrasekhar gets a job promotion because his superiors hate his honest work, but he resigned and shew to the journalists the corruption proofs of all corrupted politicians. The people becomes angry and beats all corrupted politicians, Venkatraman's politic party doesn't even win a seat at the parliament.

Chandrasekhar gets married with his lover in Punjab. Venkatraman's wife Vasanthi (Pallavi) was sent to jail for corruption. Venkatraman loses all his money and decides to take vengeance. Vikram, released from jail, wants also to revenge Chandrasekhar and becomes friend with Venkatraman.

When Vikram decides to kill Chandrasekhar, he sees his sister Anita Sharma and promised her to protect his husband. Venkatraman's henchmen kidnaps Priya, when she escaped, she fell from the building and died. They also put a bomb in Supriya's handbag which exploded by killing Supriya and Marudapandi.

Venkatraman kills Vikram but Chandrasekhar is suspected for Vikram's murder. Chandrasekhar escapes from the police and kills all corrupted politicians. Finally, Chandrasekhar gets applause for his actions but the court sends him to jail.   

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