Jigarthanda

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Siddharth as Karthik Subramani
• Lakshmi Menon as Kayalvizhi
• Bobby Simha as “Assault” Sethu
  • Vijay Sethupathi as Young Sethu and himself (dual roles)
• Karunakaran as Oorni
• Guru Somasundaram as Muthu
• Aadukalam Naren as Sundar
• Soundararaja as Ponram
• Ramachandran Durairaj as Rasu
• Jayaprakash as Santhanam
• Senthil Kumaran as Sounder
• Sangili Murugan as “Petti Kadai” Pazhani
• Bala Singh as Sandhanam
• Sathish as Rajendran
• Thennavan as Sekhar
• Delhi Ganesh as Subramani
• Riyaz Khan as Kaalaiyan
• Sudha as Karthik’s mother
• Gajaraj as Karthik’s uncle
• Ambika as Kayalvizhi’s mother
• Rajkumar as Karthik’s friend
• Bagavathi Perumal as film cinematographer
• Ajay Rathnam as Police Officer
• Bombay Gnanam as Karthik’s grandmother
• Vinodhini Vaidyanathan as Ganga
• Veera Santhanam as Sekhar
• Kaalaiyan as Senthil
• Tiger Garden Thangadurai
• Nassar as Mukil (guest appearance)
• Anthony Daasan as Vettu Kumar (guest appearance)
• Vetrimaaran as himself (guest appearance)
• Aadukalam Murugadoss as himself (guest appearance)
• Nalan Kumarasamy as Aspiring Director (guest appearance)
• Baba Bhaskar (special appearance in the song “Baby”)

Storyline:

Karthik, an aspiring filmmaker finds a producer who is willing to make his film on one condition – that it should be a fierce gangster flick. Due to this, Karthik decides to take inspiration from a real-life gangster, Karthik comes to the temple town of Madurai along with his friend Ooruni for research on thugs.

They come to know of the ruthless gangster and a terror in that area Assault Sethu. Karthik takes the help of Kayal and her mother who cook food for Sethu and his henchmen. He also pretends to be in love with the young girl. As he embarks on his task what follows is a commercial cocktail of action, humor and thrills. How Karthik comes out of this tricky web is the rest of the story.

About Movie:

Jigarthanda is a Tamil crime comedy film, penned and directed by Karthik Subbaraj, and produced by S. Kathiresan. The film features Siddharth, Lakshmi Menon, and Bobby Simha in the lead roles, with Karunakaran and Guru Somasundaram in supporting roles. The cinematography was handled by Gavemic U. Ary, marking his debut in Tamil cinema, while Vivek Harshan did editing. The music, including both songs and the background score, was composed by Santhosh Narayanan.

The filming started on 12 June 2013 at Madurai. In the end of July 2013, it was reported that the entire filming came to an end with reference to Siddharth’s tweet. Principal photography ended on 21 November 2013.

The film was released on 1 August 2014. It received critical acclaim, winning two National Film Awards: Best Supporting Actor for Bobby Simha and Best Editing for Vivek Harshan.

Jigarthanda is said to have drawn inspiration from the 2006 South Korean film A Dirty Carnival. The film was later remade in Kannada under the same title in 2016, in Telugu as Gaddalakonda Ganesh in 2019, and in Hindi as Bachchhan Paandey in 2022. A spiritual successor and prequel, titled Jigarthanda DoubleX, was released in 2023.