Tamil Movie Review Jigarthanda - Cast & Crew

Ambika is an Indian actress. Ambika is known for her works in Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada films. She was born in Kerala. Her parents are Kunjan Nair and Sarasamma. Currently, Ambika lives in Chennai. 
Ambika started acting when she was just 16 years old and was a popular child artist. She continued acting and was a leading actress of her times. She did more than 200 films in the south. She first did a Malayalam film named Seetha. Neelathaamara and Lejjavathi were a part of her early career. She acted in AnthaEzhuNaatkal directed by K. Bhagyaraj. 

Films came to Lakshmi Menon at an age when she hadn’t started thinking about her career. Impressed by her dance show on TV, Malayalam director Vinayan offered her a role in his film. She got her break in Raghuvinte Swantham Raziya when she was in her eighth class. Soon, she played a lead role with Vineeth in Ideal Couple, directed by Ali Akbar. It was a year later when she got her first break in Tamil movie Kumki (2012) that made her lucky mascot in Kollywod. When she was running high on a success wave with Kumki, her next film, Naan Sigappu Manithan (2012) with Vishal made her as the rising star in Kollywood.  

Today, she is known as the girl with the Midas touch, whose very presence in any film guarantees a hit. At age of 19, she has attained the dizzy heights of stardom as her successful films Sundarapandian, Pandiya Naadu, Naan Sigappu Manithan, Manjapai and Jigarthanda proves it so. She is also acting with Ajith as his sister in Thala 56 which is due for release in Diwali. It is reported that she has sung a song in an upcoming film 'Filter Coffee' directed by Raghav with debutant Rama Subramanian as the music director. This star was born to a Dubai-based artist Ramakrishnan and dance teacher Usha Menon. She started dance at her age of 3 and learnt Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi and Kathakali. As a teenage girl, she also took her modeling career seriously and appeared in TV advertisements (Fair and Lovely& Josco jeweler). She has passed her plus two exam and she has joined a popular institute in Bengaluru to learn Fashion design technology where she will have to attend 100 days of regular classes. 

She had taken this decision so that she can concentrate even in acting seriously.

The transformation of Bobby Jayasimha of remote Kodaikanal to Bobby Simha of the Chennai film industry has not been without the inevitable twists and turns that normally affect those striving to enter films from humbler backgrounds.

Santhosh Narayanan was born on 15 May 1983 in Tamil Nadu. He is a musician and a movie composer by profession in Tamil movie industry. Santhosh attended school at RSK Higher Secondary School and did his college from J. J. College of Engineering and Technology. Initially, Santhosh started his career as a recording engineer, and one of his first works includes working as an assistant with A. R. Rahman. He was also a member of a folk music band ‘La Pongal.’

Aadukalam Naren was born in Chennai the heartland of Tamil cinema, in a family which took keen interest in movies. He was interested in acting and was also encouraged by his family members, and so he decided to go through formal training before he could enter the industry.

Nassar is one of the multi talented actors in the Indian cinema industry. He has achieved various awards for his acting performance. He is not only an actor, but a producer and a good director too. Mehaboob Nassar is his full name and Nassar remained as his stage name. He is married to Kameela and has three children. His debut was through Kalyana Agathigal, a Balachander movie. He has acted in various films with different roles. Most of his roles depict him as a villain. After few years of his successful villain roles, he jumped to character roles that yielded him fame. He did a good role in Roja as a good Police Officer. His role in Thevar Magan made him to get a good name. He made his debut as a director through Avatharam in the year 1995. He acted in a lead role in the film alongside Revathi. Revathi acted as Blind women in this film. Nassar performed as a blind singer in the film Minsara Kanavu. He did a dual role in Jeans. He did a different role in Saivam, in which he acted as a village grandpa of Baby Sarah. From his debut in 1985, till now in Kamal's Uttama Villain, he has earned good name and lots of fans too. He has been awarded as Kalaimamani by Government of Tamilnadu.

Karthik Subbaraj is a Tamil director. He lives in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Karthik has completed his matriculation and higher education from SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Madurai. He was a very discipline student during his school days with excellent academic records. Karthik has also attended Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai-15 to complete his engineering degree. He has specialised in mechatronics. He started his career with Infosys Bangalore working as a software engineer. His tenure of working in Infosys was five years out of which he has spent two years in the US. While he was working in Bangalore, his interest in film making developed. During weekends, he used to make short films. He attended a one day workshop called as Film Camp of Sanjay Nambiar. In this workshop, he learned the basics of film making. Later he enhanced his film making skills in the US.

S. Kathiresan is an Indian-Tamil Film Producer and Director. He was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He started his career as a producer with the movie “Polladhavan” in 2007, directed by Vetrimaaran. The film features actors like Dhanush and Divya Spandana. It was the debut film of both Kathiresan as a producer and Vetrimaaran as a director. The film received mixed reviews from critics. Kathiresan made his second collaboration again with Vetrimaaran in 2011 for the movie “Aadukalam,” which starred Dhanush and Taapsee Pannu in lead roles.

Gavemic is a very well-known cinematographer in Indian cinema. Thanjavur is his birthplace. He was, however, brought up in Pondicherry. His father is an ex-police officer, his mom is a homemaker and his sister, who is younger than him, is a fashion designer. His granddad was his influence and the reason that he fell in love with cinematography. He was eleven when he got his first camera and immediately started taking pictures of whatever he came across. He, later on, borrowed his grandfather’s SLR camera to click pictures. His religion at birth was Hariharan, but he converted to Buddhism later on. When he converted religions, he also underwent a name change and kept it as Gavemic U Ary. The reason he changed his name was because of his ‘guru’ who introduced him to Buddhism. His career in the Indian film industry began in the early 2000’s. In the year 2007, he shot documentaries and commercials independently. However, this work was not creatively satisfying for him.

Karunakaran is an Indian movie actor and writer who has worked in Tamil film Industry. He has appeared in various roles. He debuted in the cinema industry in 2012 with Kalakalappu as Kumar. He is known for Soodhu Kavvum (played the role of Arumai Pragasam) which got released in 2013. Other films credited to him are Jigarthanda and Yaamirukka Bayamey. He lived and grew up in New Delhi, India. His father was a RAW agent. After residing in Delhi, he moved to Trichy with his family. He met Nalan Kumarasamy, a friend, who is a short filmmaker. He did his schooling from Sri Akilandeswari Vidyalaya Tiruchirappalli. He did his graduation from Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology& Research Academy (SASTRA) University in chemical engineering.

The business management graduate Siddharth has done movies in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. In Bollywood, he was seeing in movies like Rang de Basanti, Chashme Baddoor and Striker, where he played significant roles. He won the best debutant SCREEN Award for Rang de Basanti. Siddharth has 14 award nominations and a total of 4 awards (including Filmfare and ITFA) The guy made his debut in acting in a Tamil Film in 2002. Mani Ratnam was the man behind the exploration of such a great diamond. He has done a total of 28 movies till today. The talented actor has already tried his hands successfully in playback singing. Siddharth has sung in 12 films out of which, one includes a Bollywood movie, Striker, in which he sang two songs.