Through Jigarthanda,
the quality of Indian cinema just got richer. After innumerable reviews and of
course, loads of appreciation for Jigarthanda
already, I still couldn’t stop
myself writing about this epic classic. Karthik Subbaraj has taken the world
into the historic city of Madurai in its contemporary style and delivered a
world-class cinema that will be remembered for ages.
When people
argue about whether Jigarthanda showcases the crime imitating art or the art
imitating crime, I see the movie depicting a crime which felicitates art and the
art which suppresses that crime. It is quite unusual for cinema to come across
a film like Jigarthanda which is
nothing less than a humongous milestone for the entire industry. It is arguably
the finest kind of film-making the industry could have seen in a decade or so. Such
was the effort of the entire team that every frame is sculpted to a divine
grace. The sculpture was built off a single rock and the final product was however
having beauty all around. Truly, Indian cinema could have never witnessed a
film that conveyed the power of cinema as a medium to influence people so much
than what Jigarthanda did.
Jigarthanda Trailer . The movie
as an experience is unparallel to anything I have seen of late. Enthralling performances,
quintessential music, parallel-quoted maverick screenplay, violent-patient
fantasising cinematography and to top it all a commanding direction, Jigarthanda brings out the best from
every resource to make it an epic composition. It takes the courage of
Siddharth’s calibre to play the character allowing the demon to rock from other
end. Many times, missions fail without a balanced launch-pad and Siddharth as a
talented young director chasing his first film fills the role as perfect as anything
to be that launch-pad for ‘Bobby’ Simha. After all the result is eventually to make
Jigarthanda the sweeter it is meant
to be. Simha’s lifetime performance as A.Sethu will remain longer in the hearts
of filmgoers and there cannot be surprises if he wins as many awards as applicable,
since every bit of them, he deserves it thoroughly. The characters Oorni,
Raasu, Palani, Senthil, Soundar, Kayal, Muthu (the acting teacher, wow!) will
be immortal just because of the fact that every character is uniquely sketched
for a masterpiece.
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| Jigarthanda Poster |
Jigarthanda easily falls in the league of Mani Ratnam’s Kannathil Muththamittaal, Bala’s Nandha, Ameer’s Paruthiveeran, M.Sasi Kumar’s Subramaniyapuram and to a great extent Gautham Vasudev Menon’s romantic classic Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya for adopting meticulous, passionate film-making and inducing life in every frame remaining in our lives and as part of them forever. Very rarely such films occur in Indian cinema and Jigarthanda (rightly chosen as Forbes’s Top 5 Indian movies to watch in 2014) delivers a master-class attaining this cult-status. Films like these bring pride and joy together and cast away all the benchmark and blue-print for its legacy of films to come. It is fortunate as well as amusing to quote, the genius Karthik Subbaraj has just arrived. Therefore, it will be pleasing to know, there are lot of archery up his castle and the battlefields are getting ready to be made.
The film is
a monumental production in terms of uncompromising imagination and quality,
special thanks to producer Kathiresan for allowing the director to bring his
story to life. Santosh Narayan’s music is one of the greatest value-additions
in the film; unbelievable music composition right from the beginning to end.
The theme music for the don, the gibberish interlude, the Jigar and the Thanda
montages, Kannamma song’s orchestration and RR, everything from Santosh is just
mesmerizing and elevates the film to an altogether different level. Jigarthanda, I believe has also
showcased how tearing apart the ‘image’ of a person could be an unbearable
factor and that the cinema medium has every power on Earth to make or break
anyone; everyone!
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| Karthik Subbaraj, Siddharth and Karunakaran during the making of Jigarthanda |
Karthik Subbaraj’s Jigarthanda is an immortal classic which will pave way for more similar ideologies to arise as movies in the years to come. The director’s vision has rightly given the confidence, pride and joy to the people at the right time which itself is the biggest achievement for the film. This is great for the entire team and particularly the director as the mastermind for bringing Quentin Tarantino kind of absolute film-making in Indian cinema. There are still secrets to identify even after watching the film multiple times and that is even more special for the film. Never before realized the value of tears and just by seeing the one drop of tear in Simha’s eyes, Jigarthanda says it all!
Jigarthanda: Epic Feast!
