2014 · crime · comedy · drama
Jigarthanda
Directed by Karthik Subbaraj2h 50m2014
A budding director endeavors to research a merciless gangster for making a film on gangsterism. But his secret attempts to conduct the research fail when he gets caught for snooping.
Our read: Jigarthanda (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive crime · comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured crime / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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