Happy Birthday Arun Pandian: From Robocop and Indiana Jones to Predator, the many avatars of the 90s action star
On the birthday of the actor, we give you ten of Arun Pandian's most interesting characters.
Arun Pandian's debut directorial and his 100th film as an actor, Devan, a revenge-thriller, had him sharing screen space with Captain Vijaykanth for the third time after Oomai Vizhigal and Thayagam.
Arun Pandian played the police officer, Alex, who comes back from the dead, as a cybernetic robocop with a human brain in Velu Prabhakaran's Sivan (1999)
Arun Pandian was seen fighting aliens and saving planet earth in the 1995 drama, Asuran, which was inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger's Predator
Arun played an ex-Indian Army soldier, Major David Kumar, in the 1990 action-adventure, Inaindha Kaigal, co-starring Ramki. The film was, in many ways, our very own Indiana Jones.
Arun was seen as the dreaded gangster of a port city in the 1996 crime drama, Thuraimugam. The film had him sharing screen space with Shobana.
Arun Pandian's debut film as an actor was the 1986 film, Oomai Vizhigal, that was made by the Film Institute students.
Arun played a national boxing champion in the 1996 flight hijack-drama, Thayagam, costarring Vijayakanth as the cop, Napoleon as the pilot, and Mansoor Ali Khan as the terrorist with the funny nose.
Arun Pandian was seen as a convict with a life sentence, who was framed in a mass-immolation case in 1993 action-drama, Muttrugai. Bhanu Priya played the DSP.
Arun Pandian co-starred with Napoleon yet again in Rajamuthirai, which was directed by Selvamani.
Arun played the atheist Asst Commissioner of Police, Raja Yesu Mohamed, in the crima drama, Urimai Por (1998).
