Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Alli Arjuna (1935)

Alli Arjuna poster
Original title
அல்லி அர்ஜுனா
Directed by
A. V. Meiyappan
Genre
drama
Country
British Raj
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a Hindu mythological film from 1935 about Arjuna from the Mahabharata. It was based on a play and was a financial failure.

historicalmythicdatedslowtraditionalearnest

What happens

Alli Arjuna is a 1935 Indian Tamil-language Hindu mythological film produced and directed by A. V. Meiyappan in his debut. It is based on the play of the same name, revolving around Arjuna from the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The film stars K. S. Ananthanarayana Iyer and K. R. Kanthimathi Bai, and became a box-office bomb. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?