R ARIVANANTHAM
With its powerful narrative and Superstar Rajinikanth’s charismatic portrayal, Jailer is the ultimate showcase of the superstar’s one-man brilliance. Amidst a wave of excitement and jubilation, Rajinikanth’s much-awaited film Jailer has finally graced cinema halls. The grand premiere saw an enthusiastic turnout of devoted fans, all eager to witness the cinematic magic of the beloved superstar once again.
- In a history of sorts, many corporates in Chennai have granted either special leaves or declared holiday for the staff to see the first day, first show of the evergreen ‘Thalaivar’ in action
- ‘Superstar yarunnu ketta chinnakkulandhaiyum sollum’ turns out to be true as ‘Jailer’ was released amid huge expectations and getting good response
- Film can be seen with whole family only for Superstar’s comedy
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— Girish Mathrubootham (@mrgirish) August 9, 2023
In a history of sorts, many corporates in Chennai have granted either special leaves or declared holiday for the staff to see the first day, first show of the evergreen ‘Thalaivar’ in action.
‘Jailer,’ written and directed by Nelson Dilipkumar, stars Rajinikanth as its lead. The film was released across India in theatres in multiple languages on Thursday. Sun Pictures produced the film on a budget of Rs 200 crore.
‘Superstar yarunnu ketta chinnakkulandhaiyum sollum’ turns out to be true as ‘Jailer’ was released amid huge expectations and getting good response. Nelson targeted a blockbuster with ‘Jailer’ which was set in the action comedy genre, for which Nelson is well-known. Also, Nelson repeated his introverted and innocent kind of lead character in this film too. These are the two elements repeated by the director from his previous films.
Trailer:
‘Jailer’ is the story of Muthu, a retired jailer of the Tihar jail. Muthu’s son, Arjun, the ACP of the city, goes against a robbery gang and gets kidnapped by them later. Muthu stays calm for a while and waits for his son’s return to the home. But he changes his path to action and violence against the gang when he comes to know that his son is no more. How Muthu takes revenge for his son’s murder is the rest of the film’s narrative.
The first half of Jailer completely has Nelson’s touch. There are parallel layers of comedy and action throughout the screenplay of the first half. Nelson gave all the fan moments to Rajini’s fans in between the middle-class family emotions and the rest of the elements. Rajini was fantastic in the action episodes.
The interval block was so alluring and engaging. It is one of the best episodes of the entire film.
The second half of the film misses its original path to entertain the audience for a while with a lag episode of Sunil and Tamannah. It is very disappointing to see Nelson choose such a senseless comedy. But he was on the line soon, with the action episodes.
The ending could be much better in terms of action. But as Nelson chose to run the film on family emotions from the beginning, he ended the film in the same way.
There is one special mention in Nelson’s screenplay, and that is the flashback episode of Muthu in the Tihar Jail.
Rajinikanth nailed the action episodes with the ultimate style. He is super energetic in the flashback episode in particular. The rest of his performance is a superstar dose for the audience.
Ramya Krishnan and Mirnaa Menon do justice to their roles.
Yogi Babu and Ganesh Janardhan made their presence necessary for the comedy blocks.
The special appearances of Mohanlal and Shiva Rajkumar as Mathews and Narasimha, respectively, are icing on the cake.
Film can be seen with whole family for Superstar’s comedy.
CAST
‘Superstar’ Rajinikanth
Mohan Lal
Jackie Shroff
Shiva Rajkumar
Sunil
Ramya Krishnan
Vinayakan
Mirnaa Menon
Tamannaah
Vasanth Ravi
Naga Babu
Yogi Babu
Jaffer Sadiq
Kishore
Billy Muralee
Sugunthan
Karate Karthi, Mithun
Arshad
Marimuthu
Master Rithvik
Saravanan
Aranthaangi Nisha
Mahanadi Shankar
CREW
Produced by Sun Pictures
Writer- Director: Nelson
Music: Anirudh
DOP: Vijay Kartik Kannan
Editor: R.Nirmal
Art: DRK Kiran
Action: Stun Siva
Costume Designers: Pallavi Singh, Muthul Hafeez
Sound Mix: Suren.G
Sound Design: Suren.G – S.Alagiakoothan
Colorist: Andreas Brueckl
DI Lab: Prime Focus Ltd
VFX: Supervisor Ajay
Makeup: C.Harinath
Stills: V.Sittrarasu
Publicity Design: Kabilan Chelliah
Production Controller: D Ramesh Kuchirayar
Executive Producer: Raja Sridhar
PRO: Riaz K Ahmed
Score: 4.5/5
