Karthik Subbaraj made a sensational debut with the film ‘Pizza’, which became an overnight trendsetter in Tamil cinema. But taking a huge break after 2 years of long hard work, the director comes up with a script, which he could have made it intentionally to make a difference. Jigarthanda makes a complete difference in the genre compared to his previous movie, but how far it is convincing is something.
The story revolves around a wannabe filmmaker (Siddarth) who is eliminated from a leading reality TV show of short filmmaking, but is encouraged by a producer to make a full-length film. He is urged by situations to make a film based on gangster who is ruling the entire Madurai. He is so threatening to the people down there and when this filmmaker impresses him, the problems rise and the drama proceeds in an unexpected manner.
First and foremost, there are couple of actors who deserve special mention. Firstly, Bobby Simha is the absolute showstopper as his role is so compelling and is performance is outstanding. He keeps us spellbound over many scenes and even makes us laugh with his hilarious gestures, especially during the second half. On the pars, there is a huge entertainment offered by Karunakaran and his humorous performances are worthy of appreciations. Siddarth is okay with his performance, but his role remains little low in enhancement when compared to Bobby and Karunakaran. Lakshmi Menon lacks beauty in her looks as in Naan Sigappu Manithan. Perhaps, it might be because this film is old when compared to Naan Sigappu Manithan and Manja Pai.
Santhosh Narayanan helps the script to be little enhanced with his background score and songs. Cinematography is a real blessing to the entire film and editing is sleek and stylish. On the flip side, the film doesn’t have a strong screenplay. At one point, the intensity is more and the very next scene everything drops with the momentum.
On the whole, Jigarthanda doesn’t hold the audience completely hooked onto the screens throughout the show. Very few scenes impress us and rest of them are just mediocre. The film has some traces of Korean movie – The Dirty Carnival and for the ones who haven’t watched this film, it gives a mixed impact.
Verdict: Jigarthanda is a new attempt, but is moderately done.