Jarugandi

Jarugandi (2018)

ஜருகண்டி

An ambitious youngster lands in trouble after making forged documents to earn money. A cop promises to let him go if he coughs up a huge sum, but the guy ends up kidnapping a girl, which makes things worse.

Date of release
2018-10-26
TMDB
4.5 / 10 (6)
Runtime
2h 16m
Genres
Romance, Comedy, Action
Director
Pitchumani

Casting

Interesting facts

Jarugandi is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language action film written and directed by A. N. Pitchumani and co-produced by Nithin Sathya and Badri Kasthuri. The film features Jai and Reba Monica John, while Amit Tiwari, Daniel Annie Pope, Robo Shankar, Ilavarasu, and Bose Venkat play supporting roles. The music was composed by Bobo Shashi with editing by Praveen K. L. and cinematography by R. D. Rajasekhar. The production of this film started in late 2017. The film was released on 26 October 2018 to negative reviews and was a flop at the box office.

Production

Nithin Sathya announced the production number one titled Jarugandi, a Tamil feature family from Shvedh. He teamed up with Badri Kasthuri from Shraddha Entertainment in the production of the film. The film is written and directed by A. N. Pitchumani, a former assistant to director Venkat Prabhu. Bobo Shashi, R. D. Rajasekhar, Praveen K. L. and Remiyan were selected as the composer, cinematographer, film editor and art director respectively.

Jai plays the lead role in this movie. Nithin's association with Jai dates back to the film Chennai 600028 (2007) and Chennai 600028 2 (2016), where they appeared together on screen. This "comfortable equation" between them was the reason behind his interest to cast Jai for the film. The film also marked the Tamil debut of Malayalam actress Reba Monica John, who played the female lead of the movie. Amit Tiwari is the antagonist.

Following the announcement of the film's title in November 2017, 50% of the film was completed within a 20-day shooting schedule, thereby bringing justice to the title "Jarugandi" which translates to "Move on". As the dates of the shoot were changed, the original cinematographer Arvi (the cinematographer of Pandigai) had to leave the project soon after the first schedule. Subsequently, ace cinematographer R. D.

In January 2017, following the allegations of non-cooperation by the producer of the film Balloon, Badri Kasthuri publicly backed Jai and his commitment to this work on Jarugandi

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