One of the finest commercial and a well made sensible movie in Tamil cinema. Rarely we see such good movies (last in Tamil being soodhu kavum).
The movie starts off with a aspiring director (and family supports his ambition) being discouraged by a renowned director. As the movie goes on we get to know that a producer who had an ego clash with the renowned director agrees to produce our hero's film. Later we get to know the producer's words were just a gimmick for the public. The producer then sets a task for the hero asking him to take inspiration from gangster epics like Thalapathy, Nayagan, God Father, Scarface, etc and make prepare a script.
The movie then shifts to Madurai where our hero follows a rustic and violent goon named sethu (assault sethu). Then the whole movie is about how the hero gets his script done, unfortunate serious problem in his movie and how he over comes it. First half is very fast paced and the second half drags a bit but the original screen play and the performance of the actors compensates for that.
The star of the movie is the antagonist Simha who portrays assault Sethu. He carries the role with such a ease which is very commendable. His timing makes even a serious scene a bit comical intentionally. Let it be a scene in which he kills someone or let it be the scene in which he learns how to act, he just fills the scene with apt expressions. Siddarth as an aspiring director has done something that isn't his usual chocolate hero kind of role. He is good in his role and is obviously overshadowed by Simha easily. Lakshmi Menon's role is a kind of role which the audience would feel is unnecessary but in one scene she justifies the character and that changes the story flow altogether.
The music director and cinematographer's work in this movie are remarkable. Their part in the creative output is as important as the directors. Karthik Subbaraj has proved that pizza wasn't just a one time brilliance. His movies will be awaited a lot more after this one. The only minute flaw is the running time of 170 minutes. But having said that the director manages to hold your attention in a neat manner.
What starts to be a rags to riches story turns into a gangster movie which in turn turns into an amazing movie with thrills comedy and surprises filled ones. Such movies reinstate our faith in good cinema which shows skin n abuses and gore with mass heroes isn't really necessary to deliver a hit movie. In short the movie should not be missed and if u don't know the language then wait as this movie will surely be remade in many languages! Cheers to the Jigarthanda team. Thanks for making the film worth my money.
The movie starts off with a aspiring director (and family supports his ambition) being discouraged by a renowned director. As the movie goes on we get to know that a producer who had an ego clash with the renowned director agrees to produce our hero's film. Later we get to know the producer's words were just a gimmick for the public. The producer then sets a task for the hero asking him to take inspiration from gangster epics like Thalapathy, Nayagan, God Father, Scarface, etc and make prepare a script.
The movie then shifts to Madurai where our hero follows a rustic and violent goon named sethu (assault sethu). Then the whole movie is about how the hero gets his script done, unfortunate serious problem in his movie and how he over comes it. First half is very fast paced and the second half drags a bit but the original screen play and the performance of the actors compensates for that.
The star of the movie is the antagonist Simha who portrays assault Sethu. He carries the role with such a ease which is very commendable. His timing makes even a serious scene a bit comical intentionally. Let it be a scene in which he kills someone or let it be the scene in which he learns how to act, he just fills the scene with apt expressions. Siddarth as an aspiring director has done something that isn't his usual chocolate hero kind of role. He is good in his role and is obviously overshadowed by Simha easily. Lakshmi Menon's role is a kind of role which the audience would feel is unnecessary but in one scene she justifies the character and that changes the story flow altogether.
The music director and cinematographer's work in this movie are remarkable. Their part in the creative output is as important as the directors. Karthik Subbaraj has proved that pizza wasn't just a one time brilliance. His movies will be awaited a lot more after this one. The only minute flaw is the running time of 170 minutes. But having said that the director manages to hold your attention in a neat manner.
What starts to be a rags to riches story turns into a gangster movie which in turn turns into an amazing movie with thrills comedy and surprises filled ones. Such movies reinstate our faith in good cinema which shows skin n abuses and gore with mass heroes isn't really necessary to deliver a hit movie. In short the movie should not be missed and if u don't know the language then wait as this movie will surely be remade in many languages! Cheers to the Jigarthanda team. Thanks for making the film worth my money.
