Jigarthanda (movie)

Jigarthanda () is a 2014 Indian Tamil language action crime comedy movie. It was written and directed by Karthik Subbaraj. The movie is produced by Kathiresan's Group. It stars Siddharth, Bobby Simha, Lakshmi Menon, Karunakaran and Guru Somasundaram. It was the first Tamil cimema movie for cinematographer Gavemic U Ary. Santhosh Narayanan wrote the songs and background music. Retrieved 10 August 2014.

Sypnopsis

An aspiring director tries his best to make a violent gangster film. His discreet attempts to research a gangster fail miserably. He discovers a mole in the gang and things go out of control for him.

Awards
The movie won two National Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor for Bobby Simha and Best Editing for Vivek Harshan.
Remakes
The movie was dubbed into Telugu as Chikkadu Dorakadu in 2016. The movie was reported to be inspired by the 2006 South Korean movie A Dirty Carnival. It was remade in Kannada with the same title (2016). The Telugu version is Gaddalakonda Ganesh (2019) and the Hindi version is Bachhan Paandey (2022).

Cast

 Siddharth as Karthik Subramani, a short film director, who wants to become a feature film director
 Bobby Simha as "Assault" Sethu, a gangster and rowdy in Madurai
 Vijay Sethupathi as Young Sethu / himself (cameo appearance)
 Lakshmi Menon as Kayalvizhi, Karthik's love interest, whose mother is Sethu's cook
 Karunakaran as Oorni, Karthik's friend
 Guru Somasundaram as Muthu, the acting teacher
 Aadukalam Naren as Sundar, the producer who produces the feature film directed by Karthik
 Soundararaja as Ponram, another local don in Madurai 
 Ramachandran Durairaj as Rasu, Sethu's right hand
 Senthil Kumaran as Sounder, Shekar's spy in Sethu's gang
 Sangili Murugan as "Petti Kadai" Pazhani, a failed and former film director who later opens and runs a shop in Madurai
 Bala Singh as Sandhanam, the first person to killed by Sethu in the film
 Thennavan as Sekhar, Sethu's enemy
 Delhi Ganesh as Subramani, Karthik's father
 Sudha as Karthik's mother
 Gajaraj as Karthik's uncle, journalist
 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, Sounder's wife
 Kaalaiyan as Senthil
 Tiger Garden Thangadurai
 Nassar as Mukil (guest appearance)
 Anthony Daasan as Vettu Kumar, Sethu's henchman (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")
 Dileep as Dileepan

References

Other websites

Category:2010s Indian movies
Category:2014 action movies
Category:2014 crime movies
Category:Action comedy movies
Category:2014 comedy movies
Category:Indian gangster movies