| Jigarthanda DoubleX | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Karthik Subbaraj |
| Written by | Karthik Subbaraj |
| Produced by | Karthik Subbaraj Kaarthekeyen Santhanam S. Kathiresan Alankar Pandian |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Tirru |
| Edited by | Shafique Mohamed Ali |
| Music by | Santhosh Narayanan |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Red Giant Movies |
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Running time | 172 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
In 1973, DSP Rathna Kumar is assigned to nab the notorious elephant poacher Shettani in Kombai Kaanai forest. The police torture the local tribals about Shettani's whereabouts, even though they themselves are his victims.
In Madras, Kirubakaran "Kiruban" is chosen as a SI in the Tamil Nadu Police. He visits his fiancée Lourde's college to share the news and witness her performance at an event. Later, Lourde persuades Kiruban to intervene in a brawl among students nearby. After some time, it appears that Kiruban has killed four of the students, despite his apparent aversion to blood as he faints upon seeing it. Surprisingly, he is found holding the murder weapon and subsequently sentenced to prison.
In 1975, the incumbent Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (CM) Sindhanai Rani has recently announced her move to National politics in a few months, necessitating election of a new Chief minister. Rathna's elder brother Jeyakodi is a famous film star and rising politician in the ruling SMDK party who desires to be the next CM. Jeyakodi is distressed about his film screenings being halted in Coimbatore, Ramnad, Madurai and Tirunelveli by supporters of his rival and Minister of Finance Karmegam. Karmegam, who is the frontrunner to become the next Chief minister, is supported by four criminal gangs across Tamil Nadu, and promotes a younger actor Chinna to replace Jeyakodi. Jeyakodi requests Rathna to kill four gangsters who support Karmegam. This will make Karmegam less influential within the party. Selecting Kiruban and three other ex-cop prisoners, Rathna offers them a full pardon and immediate recruitment into the police force, in exchange for them performing covert murders. He assigns each of them a single target, with Kiruban's target being Alliyus Caesar, the head of the "Jigarthanda Sambhavam Fans Club" and Karmegam's principal supporter at Madurai. Wanting to marry Lourde and get back his job, Kiruban accepts the assignment.
On a suggestion from Chinna, Caesar decides to conduct an audition for a director who can make a pan-Indian film with him as the lead and introduce him as the first dark-complexioned actor in Tamil cinema. Kiruban assumes the alias of "Ray Dasan", a student and assistant director of Satyajit Ray and gets through the audition. Kiruban offers to make a film based on Caesar's life titled Pandyaa. Being an ardent fan of Clint Eastwood, Caesar agrees to Ray's plan. For the film shooting, Kiruban live-shoots Caesar' real life using a camera that Eastwood supposedly gifted to Caesar when he came for a shoot near their village. Kiruban learns that Caesar belongs to the same tribe that is being haunted by Shettani.
Caesar invites the other three gangsters and Karmegam for his wife Malaiyarasi's baby shower and start of the movie shoot. One of the targets in the police' hitlist is killed by one of the moles. Caesar eventually finds and kills all of the moles, except Kiruban. Kiruban learns that Caesar was the one who led the hit on the four students in 1973, for which Kiruban was made a scapegoat. Wanting revenge, Kiruban convinces Caesar to visit his Kombai Kaanai village and nab Shettani with the pretext that this addition will make a better biopic. At the village, Caesar promises to nab Shettani in exchange to Rathna releasing the tribespeople. The villagers reveal the importance of elephants in their culture and how they are vanishing from the forests due to poachers. Caesar and the tribals subvert Shettani gang's raid and kill them.
Surviving members are captured and reveal Shettani's whereabouts. Caesar confronts Shettani, who is hunting elephants, and almost gets killed. Kiruban has a change of heart and saves Caesar by taking his body to the village for treatment. Upon recuperation, Caesar fights Shettani again and captures him. The tribe demands the presence of the Chief minister Sindhanai Rani, who promptly comes for the media publicity. Caeser hands Shettani over to the police in the presence of Sindhanai Rani, who visits upon his insistence that Shettani will be delivered. The villagers celebrate once the inmates are released and Kiruban marries local tribeswoman Paingili.
Now that the long-awaited peace has arrived, Caesar and Kiruban are shocked to see Shettani still hunting elephants the next day. Shettani reveals that it is the CM-led government that has nurtured him over the years so that he can smuggle ivories on behalf of two business tycoons. They promised Sindhanai Rani to eventually elevate her to the post of Prime Minister through lobbying. Shettani also reveals that the authorities have planned to label Caesar as the real Shettani and eventually wipe out the tribe in a police operation. The tribal members agree to lay their lives peacefully and confront the police firing.
The firing kills all the villagers, including Caesar and Malaiyarasi. Kiruban, who films the massacre, tries to escape with Paingili and Caesar' newborn child, but they get shot in the firing. None of these incidents reach the common people. Within weeks, Jeyakodi is touted to be the next CM candidate and Karmegam is dropped from the cabinet. Karmegam, who had managed to secure tapes of Kiruban's footage, plays it in a packed theatre where Jeyakodi's film was supposed to play, as a tribute to Caesar. The audience learn about Caesar' life and also the government-led massacre of the tribals and start protesting against the government. The massacre of the tribals reaches the higher-ups in the central government. As a final resort, the CM sends Rathna and his men to kill Karmegam in the theatre, but Rathna gets shocked to see Kiruban, who is actually alive, along with Paingili and Caesar' newborn son. Kiruban kills Rathna, while Karmegam and his aides eliminate his men.
In the mid-credits scene, Kiruban returns home to be with Malaiyarasi and Caesar's son, where Paingili and Kiruban name him as Sethu, as per Malaiyarasi's vow to Goddess Sethukaali Amman. An anonymous man secretly follows Paingili and Sethu, where he mentions to another man sitting in a car that they will eliminate the last remaining members of Caesar' family.
- Raghava Lawrence as Alliyus "Alliyan" Caesar
- Ganesh as young Alliyan (uncredited)
- S. J. Suryah as Kirubakaran "Kiruban" / Ray Dasan
- Nimisha Sajayan as Malaiarasi
- Ilavarasu as Minister Karmegam
- Naveen Chandra as DSP Rathna Kumar
- Sathyan as Durai Pandi
- Sanchana Natarajan as Paingili
- Shine Tom Chacko as Jeyakodi
- Aravind Akash as Chinna
- Ashraf Mallissery as Kariyan
- Vidhu as Shettani
- Kapila Venu as Tamilnadu CM Chinthamani aka Sindhanai Rani
- Tamizh as Jothi
- Theni Murugan as Sangaiyan
- Bava Chelladurai as SB Chandar, a film director (cameo appearance)
- Sheela Rajkumar as Lourde (cameo appearance)
- Vishnu Govind as Murugan
- Aadhitya Baaskar as Govindhan
- Sujatha Babu as Lakshmi
- Sananth as a man in the audience (uncredited)
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