jigarthanda double x…

[ShruteSastry]

I loved the movie, Should have watched it in theater. Karthik Subbaraj is a very good Writer and Director. 

He became director from a talent hunt, he made Pizza, Jigarthanda.

I went to Madurai, and tried Jigarthanda (its a sweet drink like rose milk) after watching the movie. 

[alpachinao]

24 minutes ago, ShruteSastry said:

I loved the movie, Should have watched it in theater. Karthik Subbaraj is a very good Writer and Director. 

He became director from a talent hunt, he made Pizza, Jigarthanda.

I went to Madurai, and tried Jigarthanda (its a sweet drink like rose milk) after watching the movie. 

chennai T-nagar lo dorukuthundi kada daniki madurai povadam enduku

[ShruteSastry]

1 hour ago, alpachinao said:

chennai T-nagar lo dorukuthundi kada daniki madurai povadam enduku

I actually went to the locations where that movie was shot, ( i think i went there in 2014 or 2015) 

also Karthik S is from Madurai. Most of the actors in that movie were local goons too.

Had time on a weekend, so just went there. Madura Meenaskhi temple is a must see place too.

 

[alpachinao]

47 minutes ago, ShruteSastry said:

I actually went to the locations where that movie was shot, ( i think i went there in 2014 or 2015) 

also Karthik S is from Madurai. Most of the actors in that movie were local goons too.

Had time on a weekend, so just went there. Madura Meenaskhi temple is a must see place too.

 

yes beautiful temple visited once

[Raven_Rayes]

On 12/13/2023 at 10:08 PM, venkappa said:

How exactly did film satire MGR and Jayalalitha high handed behaviour? Do you have any incidents IRL, mainly MGR? Amma is infamous for vengeance.

the entire movie is set in that period. there are plenty of scenes..

within the first 10mins you see Karmegam's son movie release in theatres in south TN in competition with Jeyakodi's movie.. here Jeyakodi is MGR, and Karmegam is karunanidhi.

aa thread patkoni choodu, cinema mothham real life TN political incidents ni satire chesindeh

[venkappa]

29 minutes ago, Raven_Rayes said:

the entire movie is set in that period. there are plenty of scenes..

within the first 10mins you see Karmegam's son movie release in theatres in south TN in competition with Jeyakodi's movie.. here Jeyakodi is MGR, and Karmegam is karunanidhi.

aa thread patkoni choodu, cinema mothham real life TN political incidents ni satire chesindeh

Don’t know too much about TN politics. I didn’t know MGR was known to be vengeful and criminal minded.

[Raven_Rayes]

6 minutes ago, venkappa said:

Don’t know too much about TN politics. I didn’t know MGR was known to be vengeful and criminal minded.

ofcourse he was. He was trying to one up karunanidhi all the time, because he has no ideology of his own. his overtures towards LTTE prabhakaran for instance, is purely to piss off Karunanidhi who was already forming a coalition of srilankan tamil revolutionaries to present a cogent agenda on sl tamils to the government of India.

MGR pulled TN back by a couple decades during his rule is the general consensus.  He did immeasurable damage to TN.

[TuesdayStories]

On 12/14/2023 at 12:10 PM, Paamu said:

Ah…. Ante enti. Vallu kooda edo eega doma ayyuntaraa?

Niku eyes undav kada appatlo me

 

[venkappa]

3 hours ago, Raven_Rayes said:

ofcourse he was. He was trying to one up karunanidhi all the time, because he has no ideology of his own. his overtures towards LTTE prabhakaran for instance, is purely to piss off Karunanidhi who was already forming a coalition of srilankan tamil revolutionaries to present a cogent agenda on sl tamils to the government of India.

MGR pulled TN back by a couple decades during his rule is the general consensus.  He did immeasurable damage to TN.

Any other incidents about MGR criminal minded nature affecting janalu.

How did he pull back TN? I thought he was already rich so he was not seen as corrupt like Karunanidhi family?

 

[Raven_Rayes]

8 hours ago, venkappa said:

Any other incidents about MGR criminal minded nature affecting janalu.

How did he pull back TN? I thought he was already rich so he was not seen as corrupt like Karunanidhi family?

 

by diluting dravidian agenda and sucking up to the central govt to keep his power.

he ran a one man show according to his whims and fancies and never held a cabinet meeting. He simply rode on the back of his popularity as an actor, and on his welfare schemes, which didn't even materialize because poverty in TN remained unchanged during his rule.

he sat on several water projects in a state that is generally water starved, until NTR generously offered Telugu ganga project to madras, and even in that he wasn't interested in seeing it to fruition.

the guy is more interested in building up his image than doing anything concrete. and he was extremely corrupt, just that media was not allowed to write about his corruption.

 Jigarthanda is the first movie I saw that had a character based on MGR, which showed him as a villain. And Karunanidhi as slightly just a little bit heroic.. which is nice. MGR is a name, along with Jayalalitha, that should be viewed as tyrant by the Tamil people.

compared to MGR, Karunanidhi is an angel. a scholar. a true politician. not a tyrant.

[Raven_Rayes]

inspite of my reservations about how tribals are portrayed as good hearted human beings, (which they are not) Jigarthanda made me a little bit emotional..

such a fun movie to watch, until it got very heavy and emotional towards the end.

fine movie. the best mass masala movie I've watched in a long time.

[Raven_Rayes]

9 hours ago, venkappa said:

Any other incidents about MGR criminal minded nature affecting janalu.

How did he pull back TN? I thought he was already rich so he was not seen as corrupt like Karunanidhi family?

 

It was MGR who relaxed a prohibition on sale of liquor, and increased excise duty on it to such an extent that at the time around 15% of state's revenue came from liquor excise duty.. (for comparison, currently its about 5% of the state's income).. this affected the poor mostly because overwhelming majority of liquor sold was country liquor.

income from direct taxes like land revenue, urban land tax etc which used to account for 5% of the state's revenue fell to 1% during his rule. So much for his image of 'man of the poor'.. in reality, the rich class was the beneficiaries of his rule.

inka chaala cheppochhu. Him not revising minimum wage for farm labourers in the state throughout his rule. Not spending the money earmarked for rehabilitation of bonded labourers

overall throughout his rule, the poverty level remained unchanged, and he brought untold misery upon the poor.

[Raven_Rayes]

9 hours ago, venkappa said:

Any other incidents about MGR criminal minded nature affecting janalu.

How did he pull back TN? I thought he was already rich so he was not seen as corrupt like Karunanidhi family?

 

police oppression during MGR's rule.

hunting down activists of the CPI(m) and killing them in cold blood after branding them naxalbaris, because they were fighting for the cause of farm labourers in their region. later awarding medals to the policemen who killed them, even after court censured extra judicial killings in that instance.

Jayalalitha did such stuff too in the 90s and even in 00s when she was in power.

[Raven_Rayes]

9 hours ago, venkappa said:

Any other incidents about MGR criminal minded nature affecting janalu.

How did he pull back TN? I thought he was already rich so he was not seen as corrupt like Karunanidhi family?

 

MGR was so intent on silencing media, that he even passed a law to stop screening of films and plays critical of the govt, even films that were certified by CBFC.

thanneer, thanneer ani oka play ni dwamsam chesaru, that showed plight of rural poor wrt access to water and govts carelessness to their problems.

taravatha it was made into a movie by balachander (who was quite popular), and then the mgr govt tried to get it banned.. and when it didnt work, they pressurized theatres against screening the movie.

ee level repression of civil society TN lo jaragaley when DMK was in power. MGR was a monster. Jayalalitha another monster.

[vanga]

On 12/12/2023 at 9:31 PM, dasari4kntr said:

baane vundi movie…one time watch…

 

naaku akkadakka old classic movie references kanipinchayi…like villagers fight scene from seven samurai movie..etc

may be this is movie about movie…

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