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Current status - Released
Total runtime - 170 mins.
Release date - 01-08-2014
Release year - 2014
Genres - Action, Drama, Thriller
Overall ratings and scores for Jigarthanda:
Happiness Score - 7.1/10, World Popularity Score - 2.876/100, IMDB Score - 8.2, Metascore - N/A, Internet Movie Database - 8.2/10, .
Jigarthanda movie has Total Global Votes - 42, Total IMD Votes - 11,896
Jigarthanda Movie Introduction: Movie Jigarthanda, release year 2014 is written by Karthik Subbaraj and directed by Karthik Subbaraj. The leading star-cast in this movie are Siddharth, Bobby Simha, Lakshmi Menon along with the other stars and crew members.
Trailers, Clips, Featurettes and Behind the Scenes
Official : Jigarthanda Theatrical Trailer | Sidharth, Lakshmi Menon
Movie overview and plot by Anagha Shashank
Movie in-short: An aspiring director targets a ruthless gangster because he wants to make a violent gangster film. His discreet attempts to research the gangster fail miserably. Finally when he gets caught snooping, things hit the fan.
Movie story-line: A budding director endeavors to research a merciless gangster for making a film on gangsterism. But his secret attempts to conduct the research fail when he gets caught for snooping.
Movie synopsis: When Karthik is given a task by his producer to come up with a gripping gangster flick infested with heavy dosage of violence, he focuses on Sethu, a ruthless gangster surrounded by quirky yet scary henchmen. Karthik discreetly tries his best to find out about Sethu to develop a film script, but fails miserably in all his attempts. However when he finally gets the chance to gain an insight into Sethu's life, disaster strikes as he gets caught in the mêlée following the discovery of a mole within Sethu's gang.
Highlights - Jigarthanda (2014)
Total budget - $1,600,000.00
Total revenue - $0.00
Produced by - Group CompanyShri Meenakshi Creations
Produced in - India
Available languages - Tamil (தமிழ்),
Homepage URL -
Awards won / Nominations - 6 wins & 6 nominations
Certificate(s) - IN : UA
Lead Actors, Writer(s), Director(s) of Jigarthanda (2014)
Lead Actors - Siddharth, Bobby Simha, Lakshmi Menon
Writer(s) - Karthik Subbaraj
Director(s) - Karthik Subbaraj
Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) about Jigarthanda (2014)
What is the release date of Jigarthanda (2014)?
Release date of Jigarthanda (2014) is 01-08-2014.
What is the total runtime of Jigarthanda (2014) in minutes?
Total runtime of Jigarthanda (2014) in minutes is 171 min.
What is the budget consumed to produce Jigarthanda (2014) movie?
The budget consumed to produce Jigarthanda (2014) movie is around $1,600,000.00.
How much revenue is expected from movie Jigarthanda (2014)?
Expected revenue from movie movie Jigarthanda (2014) is around $0.00.
What is the pupularity of Jigarthanda (2014)?
Worldwide pupularity of Jigarthanda (2014) movie is 2.876%.
What is the name of the production company of film Jigarthanda (2014)?
Production company of film Jigarthanda (2014) is/are Group Company, Shri Meenakshi Creations, .
Which country the film Jigarthanda (2014) is produced in?
Film production country for the film Jigarthanda (2014) is India, .
Which language the film Jigarthanda (2014) is produced in?
Film Jigarthanda (2014) is produced in Tamil (தமிழ்), language(s).
Which Genre the film Jigarthanda (2014) belongs to?
Movie Jigarthanda (2014) is categorized under Action, Comedy, Crime genre(s).
Who are the lead actors of the film Jigarthanda (2014)?
Lead actors of the film Jigarthanda (2014) are Siddharth, Bobby Simha, Lakshmi Menon.
Who is the writer of the film Jigarthanda (2014)?
The writer(s) of the film Jigarthanda (2014) is/are Karthik Subbaraj.
Who is the director of the film Jigarthanda (2014)?
The director(s) of the film Jigarthanda (2014) is/are Karthik Subbaraj.
Which awards, nominations and recognitions are won by Jigarthanda (2014) movie?
Movie Jigarthanda (2014) has 6 wins & 6 nominations awards and nomination in it's profile.
What is the story of Jigarthanda (2014) in-short?
Short plot of movie Jigarthanda (2014): An aspiring director targets a ruthless gangster because he wants to make a violent gangster film. His discreet attempts to research the gangster fail miserably. Finally when he gets caught snooping, things hit the fan..
What is the full story of Jigarthanda (2014) movie?
Full plot of movie Jigarthanda (2014): When Karthik is given a task by his producer to come up with a gripping gangster flick infested with heavy dosage of violence, he focuses on Sethu, a ruthless gangster surrounded by quirky yet scary henchmen. Karthik discreetly tries his best to find out about Sethu to develop a film script, but fails miserably in all his attempts. However when he finally gets the chance to gain an insight into Sethu's life, disaster strikes as he gets caught in the mêlée following the discovery of a mole within Sethu's gang..
Where to find full details of Jigarthanda (2014) movie?
You can find the full details of movie Jigarthanda (2014) at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3569782
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List of full Starcast and crew members of Jigarthanda (2014)
Full Starcast:
Name: Siddharth
Character: Karthik
Name: Bobby Simha
Character: "Assault" Sethu
Name: Karunakaran
Character: Oorani
Name: Vijay Sethupathi
Character: Young Sethu / Himself
Name: Lakshmi Menon
Character: Kayal
Name: Guru Somasundaram
Character: Muthu
Name: Adukalam Naren
Character: Sundar
Name: Nassar
Character: Mukil
Name: Ramachandran Durairaj
Character: Rasu
Name: Vinodhini Vaidyanathan
Character: Soundar's Wife
Name: Bagavathi Perumal
Character: Cinematographer
Name: Soundara Raja
Character: Ponram
Name: Ambika
Character: Kayalvizhi's Mother
Name: Thennavan
Character: Sekhar
Name: Delhi Ganesh
Character: Subramani, Karthik's Father
Name: Bala Singh
Character: Sandhanam
Name: Sangili Murugan
Character: 'Petti Kadai' Pazhani
Name: Ajay Rathnam
Character: Police Officer
Name: Vetrimaaran
Character: Self (Guest Appearance)
Name: Aadukalam Murugadoss
Character: Self (Guest Appearance)
Name: Nalan Kumarasamy
Character: Aspiring Director (Guest Appearance)
Name: Rajkumar
Character: Karthik's Friend
Name: Jigarthanda Senthil
Character: Senthil
Name: Anthony Daasan
Character: Self (Cameo in song "Pandii Naattu Kodi")
Name: Gajaraj
Character: Journalist
Name: Senthil Kumaran
Character: Sounder
Name: Baba Baskar
Character: Self (Special appearance in the song "Baby")
Name: Tiger Thangadurai
Character:
Name: Leo Sivadass
Character:
Crew Members:
Name: S. Kathiresan
Department: Production
Job/Role: Producer
Name: Sean Roldan
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Playback Singer
Name: Sean Roldan
Department: Writing
Job/Role: Lyricist
Name: Karthik Subbaraj
Department: Writing
Job/Role: Screenplay
Name: Karthik Subbaraj
Department: Directing
Job/Role: Director
Name: Karthik Subbaraj
Department: Writing
Job/Role: Story
Name: Santhosh Narayanan
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Original Music Composer
Name: Santhosh Narayanan
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Playback Singer
Name: Vijay Sethupathi
Department: Crew
Job/Role: Thanks
Name: Vivek Harshan
Department: Editing
Job/Role: Editor
Name: R. K. Vijay Murugan
Department: Art
Job/Role: Art Direction
Name: Gavemic U Ary
Department: Camera
Job/Role: Director of Photography
Name: Baba Baskar
Department: Crew
Job/Role: Choreographer
Name: Anthony Daasan
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Playback Singer
Name: Anthony Daasan
Department: Writing
Job/Role: Lyricist
Name: Vishnu Govind
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Sound Designer
Name: Sree Sankar
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Sound Designer
Name: Billa Jagan
Department: Crew
Job/Role: Stunt Coordinator
Name: Arunraja Kamaraj
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Playback Singer
Name: Arunraja Kamaraj
Department: Writing
Job/Role: Lyricist
Name: Nikhil Murugan
Department: Crew
Job/Role: Public Relations
Name: R P Balagopi
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Pradeep Kumar
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Playback Singer
Name: Pradeep Kumar
Department: Writing
Job/Role: Lyricist
Name: Rita Thyagarajan
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Playback Singer
Name: Muthamil
Department: Writing
Job/Role: Lyricist
Name: Meenakshi Iyer
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Playback Singer
Name: Aathish Hariharan
Department: Production
Job/Role: Co-Producer
Name: Jeyagar Viswanathan
Department: Production
Job/Role: Production Executive
Reviews Section
In a poignant scene in Jigarthanda, an elderly man tells Karthik, a young guy who is on the verge of directing his first film, about the attitude of debutant filmmakers. They will demand everything and not compromise, the old man says and goes on to narrate how he, when he was all set to direct a film after a decade of toil in the industry, refused to accept the request of his producer to cast two of his relatives and walked out of the project saying he will get a thousand other producers for his story. "Aana, kadaisi varikkum aayirathula oruthan kooda varala," he says to make Karthik understand that he has to grab the opportunity that is knocking on his doors, despite the conditions it brings along with it. Given that Jigarthanda was the first script that Karthik Subbaraj had written before he 'compromised' and made Pizza (the applause that his name generates during the title credits show how influential this young director has become), he should know how a good filmmaker can exploit a compromise. And, that is essentially what the film is all about — a filmmaker forced to make the worst possible compromise turning it into the best possible chance. The film begins with an award-winning director ( Nasser, in a cameo) and a producer ( Naren) fighting over the merits of Karthik's ( Siddharth) short film on the sets of a reality show. The director dubs it "kuppa padam" and the producer, who clearly has personal issues to settle with him, calls it the best he has seen on the show and announces that he will produce Karthik's first film. But when the young man approaches him, he tells him that he wants not a message movie but a bloody gangster movie. He lists Hollywood films in the genre (The Godfather, Scarface, "Tarantino") and tells Karthik, "Idhu madhiri oru script ready pannu," and without pausing adds, "Illa idhaye script-a pannalum OK". But like any self-respecting first-time filmmaker, Karthik has too much integrity and so decides that he will make a gangster film based on a true gangster. He gets to know about Assault Sethu (Simhaa), a fearsome gangster who calls the shot in Madurai, and decides to go to the temple town to research about Sethu and come up with an authentic gangster movie. He entices his Madurai-based friend Oorani ( Karuna, who carries forward his Yaamirukka Bayamey form) to help him in the task but the duo is hardly able to make progress. But Sethu enters his life in the least expected way leading to situations that could put both his filmi career and life in danger. If Pizza was a con movie dressed up as a haunted house horror thriller, Jigarthanda is basically a comedy cloaked as a gangster movie. In the first half, the director provides us the gangster thriller that the trailers promised us — a villain who is both awesome and frightening, his quirky underlings (one of them is a teetotaler and a god-fearing man whose weakness is porn and the scenes where Karthik and Oorani try to woo him by supplying him porn are a blast), brutal murders, and a tense interval block. There is even some virtuoso camerawork by the cinematographer Gavemic Ary, and a lengthy shot in the scene where an attempt is made by a rival to murder Sethu is remarkable. The heroine, too, is an interesting character and isn't there just for the romantic track. She and her mom, an idli seller who cooks for Sethu, are Sourashtrians (this is the second film in recent times to show the heroine as a Sourashtrian, after Naan Than Bala), and they are part of a group that steals saris from cloth stores! The tone gradually shifts in the second half and unlike Pizza, where a single reveal altered our view of the film, here, we never realize that we are seeing a film different from the one we had seen in the first half. The mood lightens considerably over the scenes and we never find this shift in genres jarring when the mood turns somewhat serious again towards the end. The intensity drops in the second half, which does have shades of the Malayalam film Udayananu Tharam (which was influenced by the Steve Martin-Eddie Murphy-starrer Bowfinger) but this is certainly not an 'inspired' film. Also, Sethu's transformation in the end seems a little predictable (and also sentimental), but the actors, especially Simhaa, who owns this role and is terrific in the climax, make us forget this niggle to a large extent. Karthik Subbaraj has called the film a musical gangster film and the soundtrack is definitely eclectic and involves a melange of genres. Santhosh Narayanan uses everything from funky Tamil folk to pieces that recall Ennio Morricone's scores for spaghetti westerns in the background. Then, there are also film songs that are used as montages. The film opens to the strains of Paasa Malar's Malarnthu Malaratha (we see it first playing in a theatre where a shootout happens but in what is a frequently employed style in the film, the song spills over into the next scene where it plays as the hero's ringtone), but there is also the mandatory Ilaiyaraaja song (here, it is Kadhalin Deepam Ondru) and even something as recent as Pesuren Peuren from Pannaiyarum Padminiyum. And, if the heroine tells a 'kavidhai' involving rain and Ilaiyaraaja, in a scene that wants to inform that the 80s was not just restricted to the maestro, Sethu tells in another scene that he is a fan of Shankar-Ganesh! This kind of subversive streak is what makes this film singular and reinforces that Karthik Subbaraj as one of the exciting filmmakers of our time.
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