Arima Nambi (Eng: Man with the Strength of the Lion) is a 2014 Indian Tamil thriller movie directed by debutant Anand Shankar. Vikram Prabhu, Priya Anand, and J. D. Chakravarthy in pivotal roles. Drummer Sivamani made his debut as a music director in the film, which was shot by R. D. Rajasekhar while the editing was done by Bhuvan Srinivasan. The shoot of Arima Nambi started on 3 June 2013 in Chennai. It released on 4 July 2014 to mostly positive reviews. The film was remade in Telugu as Dynamite (2015) with Vishnu Manchu.
Arjun Krishna (Vikram Prabhu), a technician in a Chennai-based BMW showroom, meets Anamika Raghunath (Priya Anand), a college student, while out with her friends at Hard Rock Cafe. They are attracted to each other and go on a date the following night. Following the date, Anamika invites Arjun to her apartment for a bottle of vodka. Things go well until Anamika gets kidnapped by two men. Arjun, who was in the bathroom when Anamika was kidnapped, immediately lodges a complaint at the Besant Nagar police station. Sub-Inspector Arumugam (M. S. Baskar), who is assigned the case, then goes to Anamika’s apartment along with Arjun, but the apartment is now cleaned up and there seems to be no sign that a kidnapping has taken place, while the apartment’s watchman insists that Anamika had not returned to her apartment for three days. Also, the CCTV camera installed at the apartment does not show any men arriving and taking away Anamika, prompting Arumugam to suspect that Arjun has lodged a false complaint as he is drunk. However, when Arumugam calls up Anamika’s father Raghunath Kumar (Shankar Sundaram), the chairman of the TV news channel Channel 24, he merely replies that he doesn’t know anything about the kidnapping and that Anamika is holidaying in Goa, at which Arumugam suspects something amiss, realising that Arjun had not lied after all. Arumugam and Arjun rush to Raghunath’s mansion, where they see him being threatened by the two men who had kidnapped Anamika as well as the police inspector of Besant Nagar to give them a SD card which has some critical information. Raghunath calls up his editor and asks him to give the SD card to the three men, after which he is killed by them. Arjun and Arumugam pursue the three men. While Arjun manages to kill the police inspector, the other two men escape, killing Arumugam in the process.
Directed by Anand Shankar
Produced by S. Thanu
Written by Anand Shankar
Starring Vikram Prabhu, Priya Anand, J. D. Chakravarthy
Music by Sivamani
Cinematography R. D. Rajasekhar
Edited by Bhuvan Srinivasan
Production V Creations
Distributed by Vendhar Movies
Release dates 4 July 2014
Running time 151 minutes
Country India
Language Tamil
