The story follows a girl from a remote hill community who walks up to a district collector, played by Arulnithi, and asks him to help her get to school in the city, and Aarav plays the one who stands by her through that fight.Ramya Pandian and young actor Baby Krithika round out a cast that also has Kaali Venkat, VTV Ganesh and John Vijay. The director called it a film born out of pain and hope, somewhere between an art film and a regular commercial one, not quite either.Arulnithi is also juggling two more films right now, My Dear Sister and Demonte Colony 3, so this one had to earn its place on his calendar.From the trailer alone, it looks like the kind of film that could go either way, moving or a bit too neat, and that's the risk with stories like this.
The team met the press in Chennai just days before the release, talking about struggles that are still real in hill regions where school stays out of reach for a lot of kids. Arulnithi said he agreed to a short shooting schedule at first but stayed on longer once the story pulled him in.Aarav called it one of the most significant films of his career and said he said yes right after hearing the script.G V Prakash Kumar composed the music, S G Saravanan is producing under the 90 Pictures Productions banner, and Arulvaan opens in theatres worldwide on July 17.
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