Jigarthanda Double X (2023) on Netflix
In 1970s Tamil Nadu, the jailed ex-policeman Kiruban is offered a pardon to kill the Madurai gangster Alliyus Caesar. Posing as a filmmaker, he auditions to direct a film about Caesar's life.
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Plot summary
In 1973, the policeman Rathna Kumar is sent to the Kombai Kaanai forest to catch Shettani, an elephant poacher, and the police torture the local tribals for news of him. In Madras, the sub-inspector Kiruban is sentenced to prison after a student brawl leaves four dead and he is found holding the weapon. By 1975, the film star Jeyakodi wants to be chief minister ahead of his rival Karmegam, who has four criminal gangs behind him. Rathna offers Kiruban and three other prisoners a pardon to kill those gangsters, and Kiruban accepts to win back his post and marry his fiancée Lourde. His target is Alliyus Caesar of Madurai, who stages auditions for a director to star him in a film; Kiruban goes as Ray Dasan, assistant to Satyajit Ray, proposing to film Caesar's life.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jigarthanda Double X (2023)
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- S. J. Suryah was initially reluctant to act in Jigarthanda DoubleX because he had already played a filmmaker in Karthik Subbaraj's Iraivi (2016), but accepted after the director told him he wanted a "good performer" for the role.
- While filming his fight sequences, actor Vidhu, who portrayed the antagonist Shettani, was told to fight like an animal, so he practised gymnastics and Silambam for the role.
