Jarugandi

<p>Annoyed with the struggles of living as a lower-middle-class person, Sathya ( ) decides to go to any extent to make money for his family. With his friend Paari ( ), he meets Samuel ( ), who promises to provide him with money if he can forge documents. Sathya and Paari start a travel company and dream of a happy life. However, police officer Appadurai ( ), aware of the forged documents, threatens to jail them unless they arrange ₹10 lakh in two days. Sathya sends his family away and starts searching for money with Paari. A rich man Gajendran ( ) who is in love with Keerthy ( ), offers to give them the money if they help him win over his love inter- However, circumstances force Sathya to kidnap Keerthy, which earns him the wrath of a human trafficking group led by a gangster ( ). announced the production number one titled , a Tamil feature family from Shvedh. He teamed up with Badri Kasthuri from Shraddha Entertainment in the production of the film. The film is written and directed by A. N. Pitchumani, a former assistant to director . , , and Remiyan were selected as the composer, cinematographer, film editor and art director respectively. plays the lead role in this movie. Nithin’s association with Jai dates back to the film (2007) and (2016), where they appeared together on screen. This “comfortable equation” between them was the reason behind his interest to cast Jai for the film. The film also marked the Tamil debut of Malayalam actress , who played the female lead of the movie. is the . The film also features , , and . The motion poster of the movie was released in November 2017. It reveals a heist plot and exciting car chases, which piqued the expectations for the movie. Following the announcement of the film’s title in November 2017, 50% of the film was completed within a 20-day shooting schedule, thereby bringing justice to the title “Jarugandi” which translates to “Move on”. As the dates of the shoot were changed, the original cinematographer Arvi (the cinematographer of ) had to leave the project soon after the first schedule. Subsequently, ace cinematographer was taken onboard to continue the camera work. The second schedule shoot was expected to start in December 2017, with promises of the rest of the film to be completed by the end of it. In January 2017, following the , Badri Kasthuri publicly backed Jai and his commitment to this work on All of the film’s songs were composed by , while the film’s audio rights were secured by . Jai made his playback singing debut with this film.</p>