Acting
Jiiva's trembling rage-veins deserve their own billing.
Direction
Gokul thinks he's making Nayakan. He's making something messier. More interesting?
Director
Gokul
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rowthiram arrived right as Tamil cinema was pivoting from Rajinikanth-style superheroics to more 'realistic' angry young men—Jiiva's Shiva is trapped awkwardly between both eras, too violent for one, too stylised for the other.
Ganesh Acharya, the Bollywood choreographer playing Kittu, reportedly learned Tamil phonetically for the role—his line delivery has a fascinating alien quality that accidentally makes his villainy more memorable.
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