Driver Jamuna

<p>Jamuna (Aishwarya Rajesh) is a cab driver, who happens to take a shared ride with a musician (Abishek Kumar) and three other men travelling to a wedding. But as it turns out, the three passengers are contract killers en route to take down an ex-MLA. Caught between the goons and police, Jamuna tries to survive and also save the killers’ target. Social media star and comedian Abhishek Kumar plays the ambitious musician. The film was officially announced in January 2021, coinciding with ‘s birthday. Touted to be a “crime thriller”, production began by March 2021 with Kinslin of (2013) fame, making his return as director. To incorporate their body language into her character, Aishwarya Rajesh met many taxi drivers during her research for the film. The film was theatrically released on 30 December 2022 across Tamil Nadu, alongside a dubbed version. The film started streaming on from 20 January 2023 while the film’s satellite rights were brought by . The film opened to mixed reviews; while Aishwarya Rajesh’s performance received positive reviews, the film received criticism for its writing. A reviewer from noted “Aishwarya Rajesh tries her best to save this hastily written road thriller” adding that ” has engaging moments, but it’s definitely not the road movie one would willingly opt for”. A reviewer from noted “the Aishwarya Rajesh-starrer is all over the place all at once” adding that “the earnestness of the filmmaker’s vision probably withered away due to a lack of focused writing and prosaic filmmaking techniques”. The wrote “for a thriller, it reserves most of its thrills for the last 10 minutes, and that’s a move that may not appeal to everybody”, while noted the “lacklustre film that suffers from logical loopholes”. This article about a Tamil-language film of the 2020s is a . You can help Wikipedia by .</p>