96-406: Jil Jung Juk ( transl. The Good, The Average, The Unworthy ) is a 2016 Indian Tamil -language neo-Western post-apocalyptic black comedy film directed by Deeraj Vaidy, in his directorial debut. It is produced by Siddharth under Etaki Entertainment, who also enacts with Avinash Raghudevan and Sananth Reddy in the titular role. The film follows Jil, Jung and Juk who are assigned by
192-502: A Gyrojet to kill the men, but it was stopped by a marble and eventually backfired, leading Albert to collapse. Jil, Jung and Juk escape the place and lead a happy life. The Chinese gang, who had been waiting for the delivery, feels dejected that Jil didn't arrive, and they cancel the deal midway leaving empty-handed. I was having a conversation with my friend Mohan Ramakrishnan one day, with whom I had studied engineering. We were discussing how interesting it would be if we could incorporate
288-455: A Tamira Samghatta ( Tamil confederacy ) The Samavayanga Sutra dated to the 3rd century BCE contains a reference to a Tamil script named 'Damili'. Southworth suggests that the name comes from tam-miḻ > tam-iḻ "self-speak", or "our own speech". Kamil Zvelebil suggests an etymology of tam-iḻ , with tam meaning "self" or "one's self", and " -iḻ " having the connotation of "unfolding sound". Alternatively, he suggests
384-621: A cameo appearance . The film did not have a female lead opposite the lead actors; the only female actor present in the film was Jasmin Bhasin , who appeared in a short role as actress Sonu Sawant. Filming of Jil Jung Juk began in late May 2015, with portions of the film being shot in Tiruvallur , Chennai and Kanchipuram . The interior shoots were held in specially designed sets in Chennai, as per Deeraj's insistence to be shot in sets, and Siddharth (also
480-474: A dystopian era , a concept which is first-of-a-kind in Tamil cinema . Being set in a futuristic world, the film explores the three dimensions of physics — mass , time and length — as human characters, describing Jil, Jung and Juk. This concept was evolved during Dheeraj's conversation with his collegemate Mohan Ramakrishnan, during their final years of graduation. Vishal Menon of Film Companion wrote about how
576-468: A lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes . Tamil suffixes can be derivational suffixes, which either change the part of speech of the word or its meaning, or inflectional suffixes, which mark categories such as person , number , mood , tense , etc. There is no absolute limit on the length and extent of agglutination , which can lead to long words with many suffixes, which would require several words or
672-456: A software engineer , he chose his interest in filmmaking and had made two short films before approaching Siddharth in late-2014. He did a pilot film of this film, which impressed Siddharth and asked him to conceptualise the script to make it into a feature film format. When he narrated the final draft of this project in January 2015, Siddharth was impressed by the narration and storytelling, which
768-480: A , as with other Indic scripts . This inherent vowel is removed by adding a tittle called a puḷḷi , to the consonantal sign. For example, ன is ṉa (with the inherent a ) and ன் is ṉ (without a vowel). Many Indic scripts have a similar sign, generically called virama , but the Tamil script is somewhat different in that it nearly always uses a visible puḷḷi to indicate a 'dead consonant' (a consonant without
864-740: A 2001 survey, there were 1,863 newspapers published in Tamil, of which 353 were dailies. Tamil is the primary language of the majority of the people residing in Tamil Nadu , Puducherry , (in India) and in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka . The language is spoken among small minority groups in other states of India which include Karnataka , Telangana , Andhra Pradesh , Kerala , Maharashtra , Gujarat , Delhi , Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India and in certain regions of Sri Lanka such as Colombo and
960-570: A classical language by the Indian government and holds official status in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Singapore. The earliest extant Tamil literary works and their commentaries celebrate the Pandiyan Kings for the organization of long-termed Tamil Sangams , which researched, developed and made amendments in Tamil language. Even though the name of the language which was developed by these Tamil Sangams
1056-409: A derivation of tamiḻ < tam-iḻ < * tav-iḻ < * tak-iḻ , meaning in origin "the proper process (of speaking)". However, this is deemed unlikely by Southworth due to the contemporary use of the compound 'centamiḻ', which means refined speech in the earliest literature. The Tamil Lexicon of University of Madras defines the word "Tamil" as "sweetness". S. V. Subramanian suggests
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#17328907465311152-421: A dreadful drug lord to transport drugs, where they faces struggles during their journey. Deeraj Vaidy initially produced a pilot film with two of the lead actors in 2014. Impressed by the draft, Siddharth asked Vaidy to pen down the script on the lines of a similar theme; the draft was completed in January 2015. It is touted to be the first Tamil film to be set in a dystopian world , where events were happening in
1248-406: A lot of work on visual effects , the post-production work went progressed nearly four months. Siddharth being a producer, agreed to offer huge costs on post-production so that they can come up with the manageable output, since the film is huge in the aspects of technology, gloss and style. The film's sound mixing done by Vishnu Govind and Sree Sankar, with Suren G. handled re-recording works for
1344-591: A number of apparent Tamil loanwords in Biblical Hebrew dating to before 500 BCE, the oldest attestation of the language. Old Tamil is the period of the Tamil language spanning the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE. The earliest records in Old Tamil are short inscriptions from 300 BCE to 700 CE. These inscriptions are written in a variant of the Brahmi script called Tamil-Brahmi . The earliest long text in Old Tamil
1440-512: A number of sound changes, in particular, a tendency to lower high vowels in initial and medial positions, and the disappearance of vowels between plosives and between a plosive and rhotic. Contact with European languages affected written and spoken Tamil. Changes in written Tamil include the use of European-style punctuation and the use of consonant clusters that were not permitted in Middle Tamil. The syntax of written Tamil has also changed, with
1536-451: A part of the film's cast, had recorded two tracks respectively. On 10 November 2015, coinciding with Diwali , the music video of the promotional track "Shoot the Kuruvi" was launched by actor Salman Khan through YouTube . The rest of the songs and the full album released by prominent celebrities on the same day. A critic from Behindwoods praised the composer for delivering all the songs in
1632-482: A producer after Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi (2012) and his first solo project as a producer. The title was officially announced in May 2015, which was derived from a dialogue spoken by Vadivelu from Kaadhalan (1994). Deeraj Vaidy co-wrote the script with Mohan Ramakrishnan, his college friend, which is touted to be the first Tamil film set in a dystopian era and being set in a post-apocalyptic world. He said that
1728-465: A producer) supported Dheeraj's decision to be shot in sets. Eventually, the team used dummy clapboards while shooting the film portions. The film's shooting silently progressed during May and June, and the team managed to complete the entire film within 38 days. The film's post-production progressed within September 2015, and the team first revealed the film to the media on September 9. As the film required
1824-419: A quirky and unconventional western genre; he called the album as "truly international" and rated 3.25 out of five. Writing for BollywoodLife.com , H Shivakumar called the liberal mixture of EDM , jazz , contemporary R&B , rock , dubstep and Western folk as "fantastic" but criticised the lyrical similarities in the songs; he gave verdict saying "the album is quirky and catchy and does not deviate from
1920-523: A relative parallel to Tamil, even as Tamil has undergone some changes in modern ways of speaking. According to Hindu legend, Tamil or in personification form Tamil Thāi (Mother Tamil) was created by Lord Shiva . Murugan , revered as the Tamil God, along with sage Agastya , brought it to the people. Tamil, like other Dravidian languages, ultimately descends from the Proto-Dravidian language , which
2016-419: A scene where Sananth reveals the backstory of his father, a former bus driver, who joined Deiva's gang, and had stole a pink-colour 1960 Chevrolet Impala belonging to 'Rolex' Rowther, along with the cash, and a heroine whom Rowther kidnapped. Siddharth, mockingly asked that his father had kept Soppanasundari , the previous owner of that car, according to Karakattakkaran plot. Vishal Chandrashekhar composed
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#17328907465312112-532: A sentence in English. To give an example, the word pōkamuṭiyātavarkaḷukkāka (போகமுடியாதவர்களுக்காக) means "for the sake of those who cannot go" and consists of the following morphemes : போக pōka go முடி muṭi accomplish Pre-production Pre-production is the process of planning some of the elements involved in a film , television show , play , or other performance , as distinct from production and post-production . Pre-production ends when
2208-620: A small number speak the language. In Reunion where the Tamil language was forbidden to be learnt and used in public space by France it is now being relearnt by students and adults. Tamil is also spoken by migrants from Sri Lanka and India in Canada , the United States , the United Arab Emirates , the United Kingdom , South Africa , and Australia . Tamil is the official language of
2304-475: A style statement making cast to their fullest standing. Indiaglitz gave 3.75 out of 5 stars and wrote "It is commendable that Dheeraj has infused elements of humor in every bit of voiceover, comic strip, title card and subtitle and for extracting neat performances from every cast member. The director also sets the right expectation to his audience in the very beginning and hence the question of logic never arises." Behindwoods gave 2.75 out of 5 stars and wrote "JJJ
2400-595: A subject of study in schools in the French overseas department of Réunion . In addition, with the creation in October 2004 of a legal status for classical languages by the Government of India and following a political campaign supported by several Tamil associations, Tamil became the first legally recognised Classical language of India. The recognition was announced by the contemporaneous President of India , Abdul Kalam , who
2496-458: A variety of dialects that are all collectively known as Brahmin Tamil . These dialects tend to have softer consonants (with consonant deletion also common). These dialects also tend to have many Sanskrit loanwords. Tamil in Sri Lanka incorporates loan words from Portuguese , Dutch , and English. In addition to its dialects, Tamil exhibits different forms: a classical literary style modelled on
2592-438: A vowel). In other Indic scripts, it is generally preferred to use a ligature or a half form to write a syllable or a cluster containing a dead consonant, although writing it with a visible virama is also possible. The Tamil script does not differentiate voiced and unvoiced plosives . Instead, plosives are articulated with voice depending on their position in a word, in accordance with the rules of Tamil phonology . In addition to
2688-412: Is Malayalam ; the two began diverging around the 9th century CE. Although many of the differences between Tamil and Malayalam demonstrate a pre-historic divergence of the western dialect, the process of separation into a distinct language, Malayalam, was not completed until sometime in the 13th or 14th century. Additionally Kannada is also relatively close to the Tamil language and shares the format of
2784-457: Is based on the dialect of Jaffna . After Tamil Brahmi fell out of use, Tamil was written using a script called vaṭṭeḻuttu amongst others such as Grantha and Pallava . The current Tamil script consists of 12 vowels , 18 consonants and one special character, the āytam . The vowels and consonants combine to form 216 compound characters, giving a total of 247 characters (12 + 18 + 1 + (12 × 18)). All consonants have an inherent vowel
2880-563: Is extensively described in the oldest known grammar book for Tamil, the Tolkāppiyam . Modern Tamil writing is largely based on the 13th-century grammar Naṉṉūl which restated and clarified the rules of the Tolkāppiyam , with some modifications. Traditional Tamil grammar consists of five parts, namely eḻuttu , col , poruḷ , yāppu , aṇi . Of these, the last two are mostly applied in poetry. Tamil words consist of
2976-405: Is generally taken to have been completed by the 8th century, was characterised by a number of phonological and grammatical changes. In phonological terms, the most important shifts were the virtual disappearance of the aytam (ஃ), an old phoneme, the coalescence of the alveolar and dental nasals, and the transformation of the alveolar plosive into a rhotic . In grammar, the most important change
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3072-409: Is generally used in formal writing and speech. For instance, it is the language of textbooks, of much of Tamil literature and of public speaking and debate. In recent times, however, koṭuntamiḻ has been making inroads into areas that have traditionally been considered the province of centamiḻ . Most contemporary cinema, theatre and popular entertainment on television and radio, for example,
3168-410: Is in koṭuntamiḻ , and many politicians use it to bring themselves closer to their audience. The increasing use of koṭuntamiḻ in modern times has led to the emergence of unofficial 'standard' spoken dialects. In India, the 'standard' koṭuntamiḻ , rather than on any one dialect, but has been significantly influenced by the dialects of Thanjavur and Madurai . In Sri Lanka, the standard
3264-501: Is mentioned as Tamil, the period when the name "Tamil" came to be applied to the language is unclear, as is the precise etymology of the name. The earliest attested use of the name is found in Tholkappiyam , which is dated as early as late 2nd century BCE. The Hathigumpha inscription , inscribed around a similar time period (150 BCE), by Kharavela , the Jain king of Kalinga , also refers to
3360-771: Is not always consistently applied. ISO 15919 is an international standard for the transliteration of Tamil and other Indic scripts into Latin characters. It uses diacritics to map the much larger set of Brahmic consonants and vowels to Latin script , and thus the alphabets of various languages, including English. Apart from the usual numerals, Tamil has numerals for 10, 100 and 1000. Symbols for day, month, year, debit, credit, as above, rupee, and numeral are present as well. Tamil also uses several historical fractional signs. /f/ , /z/ , /ʂ/ and /ɕ/ are only found in loanwords and may be considered marginal phonemes, though they are traditionally not seen as fully phonemic. Tamil has two diphthongs : /aɪ̯/ ஐ and /aʊ̯/ ஔ ,
3456-430: Is not that usual route you take to attain entertainment. It is quite unpredictable and intimidating, but giving it a chance, it will grow on you for it could become a cult film one fine day and can give you an unsullied experience." In contrast, Gauthaman Bhaskaran of Hindustan Times gave 1.5 out of 5 stars and said "Siddharth, Avinash Raghudevan and Sananth Reddy produce enough laughs through some great one-liners in
3552-421: Is produced and arrangements are made for the necessary elements to be available to the film-makers at the appropriate times. Sets are constructed, the crew is hired, financial arrangements are put in place and a start date for the beginning of principal photography is set. At some point in pre-production, there will be a read-through of the script which is usually attended by all cast members with speaking parts,
3648-409: Is the Tolkāppiyam , an early work on Tamil grammar and poetics, whose oldest layers could be as old as the late 2nd century BCE. Many literary works in Old Tamil have also survived. These include a corpus of 2,381 poems collectively known as Sangam literature . These poems are usually dated to between the 1st century BCE and 5th century CE. The evolution of Old Tamil into Middle Tamil , which
3744-484: Is to enter into the major recording phase of production with the basic and most promising ideas having been already established. Notable producers who preferred this process have included Bruce Fairbairn and Bob Rock . They have both produced successful albums such as Bon Jovi 's Slippery When Wet , Mötley Crüe 's Dr. Feelgood , Metallica 's The Black Album , and Aerosmith 's Permanent Vacation . This article related to film or motion picture terminology
3840-822: Is used as one of the languages of education in Malaysia , along with English, Malay and Mandarin. A large community of Pakistani Tamils speakers exists in Karachi , Pakistan , which includes Tamil-speaking Hindus as well as Christians and Muslims – including some Tamil-speaking Muslim refugees from Sri Lanka. There are about 100 Tamil Hindu families in Madrasi Para colony in Karachi. They speak impeccable Tamil along with Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi. Many in Réunion , Guyana , Fiji , Suriname , and Trinidad and Tobago have Tamil origins, but only
3936-480: The Rolex watch he gave to Rowther was fake, leaving Rowther deceived. A gang-war takes place between Deiva and Rowther's men until Albert arrives and kills the two gangsters so that he could be a powerful drug lord. Albert kidnaps Jil, Jung and Juk to murder them, taking them to a far-away place. They see Juk's father, a bus driver, who rescues the trio. Both of them fight hard with Albert's men. However, Albert arrives with
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4032-584: The University of Madras , was one of the earliest dictionaries published in Indian languages. A strong strain of linguistic purism emerged in the early 20th century, culminating in the Pure Tamil Movement which called for removal of all Sanskritic elements from Tamil. It received some support from Dravidian parties . This led to the replacement of a significant number of Sanskrit loanwords by Tamil equivalents, though many others remain. According to
4128-411: The cinematography , whilset Kurtz Schneider was the editor . Siddharth starred in the titular character Nanjil Sivaji (Jil). Deeraj chose him as the protagonist in the first place, because he wanted someone who never hesitates to experiment. When he came to Siddharth's house for narrating the story, he saw a CD wall in his room, for which he believed that Siddharth was the right person to experiment. As
4224-515: The soundtrack for Jil Jung Juk , which had five songs written by Vivek , Deeraj Vaidy and Siddharth . The initial script of the film had no songs, and Dheeraj approached Vishal only for composing the background score ; a promotional song was eventually made, but in the process, Vishal had recorded five tracks for the album. The soundtrack featured vocals by Anirudh Ravichander , Santhosh Narayanan , Sean Roldan , Anthony Daasan , Andrea Jeremiah , Kavita Thomas. Siddharth and Radha Ravi , who were
4320-486: The 11th century, retain many features of the Vaishnava paribasai , a special form of Tamil developed in the 9th and 10th centuries that reflect Vaishnavite religious and spiritual values. Several castes have their own sociolects which most members of that caste traditionally used regardless of where they come from. It is often possible to identify a person's caste by their speech. For example, Tamil Brahmins tend to speak
4416-503: The Decade' by Film Companion . In the 2020 post-apocalyptic Chennai , amidst the huge demand for petrol and money, Deivanayagam, an erstwhile powerful gangster gets a chance to smuggle cocaine to defeat his nemesis Rolex Rowther. Deivanayagam hires three guys: Nanjil Sivaji (Jil), Jambulingam (Jung), and Jaguar Jagan (Juk), to safely deliver the cocaine to a Chinese gang in Hyderabad . With
4512-476: The Indian state of Haryana , purportedly as a rebuff to Punjab , though there was no attested Tamil-speaking population in the state, and was later replaced by Punjabi , in 2010. In Malaysia, 543 primary education government schools are available fully in Tamil as the medium of instruction . The establishment of Tamil-medium schools has been in process in Myanmar to provide education completely in Tamil language by
4608-469: The Indian state of Tamil Nadu and one of the 22 languages under schedule 8 of the constitution of India . It is one of the official languages of the union territories of Puducherry and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands . Tamil is also one of the official languages of Singapore . Tamil is one of the official and national languages of Sri Lanka, along with Sinhala . It was once given nominal official status in
4704-673: The Tamils who settled there 200 years ago. Tamil language is available as a course in some local school boards and major universities in Canada and the month of January has been declared "Tamil Heritage Month" by the Parliament of Canada . Tamil enjoys a special status of protection under Article 6(b), Chapter 1 of the Constitution of South Africa and is taught as a subject in schools in KwaZulu-Natal province. Recently, it has been rolled out as
4800-442: The ancient language ( sankattamiḻ ), a modern literary and formal style ( centamiḻ ), and a modern colloquial form ( koṭuntamiḻ ). These styles shade into each other, forming a stylistic continuum. For example, it is possible to write centamiḻ with a vocabulary drawn from caṅkattamiḻ , or to use forms associated with one of the other variants while speaking koṭuntamiḻ . In modern times, centamiḻ
4896-912: The approximately 100,000 inscriptions found by the Archaeological Survey of India in India are in Tamil Nadu. Of them, most are in Tamil, with only about 5 percent in other languages. In 2004, a number of skeletons were found buried in earthenware urns dating from at least 696 BCE in Adichanallur . Some of these urns contained writing in Tamil Brahmi script, and some contained skeletons of Tamil origin. Between 2017 and 2018, 5,820 artifacts have been found in Keezhadi . These were sent to Beta Analytic in Miami , Florida , for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) dating. One sample containing Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions
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#17328907465314992-452: The chaos, excitement and crazy fun that would have made the film more enjoyable. The wacky entertainment that was promised in the intriguing trailer is missing. Despite its faults, Jil Jung Juk does make a decent entertainer." Latha Srinivasan of Daily News and Analysis criticised the script as "it falls short of expectations, particularly in the second half", however praised the major technical aspects and other novel elements featured in
5088-983: The dialect of Madurai , and iṅkaṭe in some northern dialects. Even now, in the Coimbatore area, it is common to hear " akkaṭṭa " meaning "that place". Although Tamil dialects do not differ significantly in their vocabulary, there are a few exceptions. The dialects spoken in Sri Lanka retain many words and grammatical forms that are not in everyday use in India, and use many other words slightly differently. Tamil dialects include Central Tamil dialect , Kongu Tamil , Madras Bashai , Madurai Tamil , Nellai Tamil , Kumari Tamil in India ; Batticaloa Tamil dialect , Jaffna Tamil dialect , Negombo Tamil dialect in Sri Lanka; and Malaysian Tamil in Malaysia. Sankethi dialect in Karnataka has been heavily influenced by Kannada . The dialect of
5184-411: The director uses several references for a black comedy film, which had been inspired from the works of Guy Ritchie and Wes Anderson , probably on the subject of a dark comedy. Eventually, the references of a futuristic western action film was noted by several critics and the use of colour in the themes of the films had been referenced to some of Guy Ritchie's works. As per the narrative, the pink color
5280-408: The director, all heads of departments, financiers, producers , and publicists . In the music industry , pre-production is a process whereby a recording artist spends time creating and refining their musical ideas. The artist thus produces a song's demo recording , or rough draft, in order to establish the song's creative premise. This reduces the time and money spent in expensive studios. The goal
5376-634: The district of Palakkad in Kerala has many Malayalam loanwords, has been influenced by Malayalam's syntax, and has a distinctive Malayalam accent. Similarly, Tamil spoken in Kanyakumari District has more unique words and phonetic style than Tamil spoken at other parts of Tamil Nadu. The words and phonetics are so different that a person from Kanyakumari district is easily identifiable by their spoken Tamil. Hebbar and Mandyam dialects, spoken by groups of Tamil Vaishnavites who migrated to Karnataka in
5472-493: The film is "an offbeat film which do not require a conventional hero. We needed a space to get creative. My films were zero-budget and I took care of everything. I learnt something new with every film; each one was more progress. I was clear even that someone could find a fault for being technically poor, but that could not be excuse for bad content". The film's technical crew consists of relatively newcomers: except for composer Vishal Chandrashekhar , debutant Shreyaas Krishna handled
5568-433: The film is set in a fictional world, Siddharth wore a blue hair in this film, which is considered to be an "unusual and uncommon look". Avinash Raghudevan and Sananth Reddy were cast in other leading roles as Jambulingam (Jung) and Jaguar Jagan (Juk). The former was described as a "scary" and "logical guy" while the latter was seen as a "constant troublemaker in the film". Avinash practised various mannerisms for his role in
5664-416: The film saying, "Whenever Jung speaks, his cheek starts twitching. It was interesting to practise this, and I had full freedom on the set to come up with suggestions". Both Avinash and Sananth had appeared in the pilot version of this film that was shot in 2014, with Kanna Ravi played Siddharth's role in that film. Veteran actors Radha Ravi and Nassar appeared in pivotal roles and RJ Balaji also starred in
5760-434: The film's release. The video titled 10 Elements of a Commercial Film , which sarcastically mocks at the current trend in the Tamil commercial films had the cast making a parody of themselves and their film. The video garnered attention from film buffs and had garnered more than a million views on YouTube . A Coimbatore-based start-up company named Creative Monkey Games & Technologies, had designed an android game based on
5856-513: The film's theme" with a rating of three-and-a-half out of five. Vipin Nair of Music Aloud said the soundtrack is "wacky, but highly imaginative and engaging", assigned a score of 8.5 (out of 10) while Karthik Srinivasan of Milliblog stated the soundtrack as "impressive". Jil Jung Juk was first revealed to the public by launching the first look and teaser in November 2015. Following the wide response for
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#17328907465315952-399: The film, calling it as a "must watch for those who would love to attempt for something different in Tamil cinema". Arathi Kannan of Manorama Online gave 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "Jil Jung Juk a dark comedy could only be justified to some extent, for it doesn't employ the noir elements (popularised by Korean and Hollywood masters) like the brilliance of violence, satirical narrative or even
6048-458: The film, that had released before the film's release date (11 February 2016) and was downloaded by 8,000 users within 5 days of the launch. Deeraj Vaidy planned to launch the director's cut version of this film through YouTube on 1 April 2020. However, the video was taken down due to copyright violation. Jil Jung Juk received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics with praise towards its offbeat themes, characterisations and technical aspects, but
6144-473: The film, while Suresh Ravi worked on digital intermediate and color grading . Work on the project has been delayed eventually due to the South Indian floods , and eventually the team worked day-and-night, so that they can complete the post-production within the end of the year. The film's first look was released by director Karthik Subbaraj in late October 2015. Jil Jung Juk is the first film to be set in
6240-459: The first half of the film; but this becomes a serious flaw post intermission, when Vaidy, who also wrote the script, runs out of ideas and begins to stretch scenes till they appear irritatingly repetitive. And the performances are passe as well, and do not add up either." Anupama Subramanian of Deccan Chronicle gave 2 out of 5 stars and wrote "The major drawback is its ordinary screenplay. What ideas looked great on paper, lose steam in execution and
6336-490: The flood. The trailer of the film was released by S. S. Rajamouli , on the eve of Pongal (14 January 2016), further adding that the film will be released worldwide on 12 February 2016, which also coincided with the eve of Valentine's Day . To make the promotional activities more unique, the cast of Jil Jung Juk — Siddharth, Sananth and Avinash appeared in a special video made by the YouTube channel Put Chutney, released before
6432-466: The formal ancient Tamil language. While there are some variations from the Tamil language, Kannada still preserves a lot from its roots. As part of the southern family of Indian languages and situated relatively close to the northern parts of India, Kannada also shares some Sanskrit words, similar to Malayalam. Many of the formerly used words in Tamil have been preserved with little change in Kannada. This shows
6528-443: The future and principal shooting for the film was completed within 38 days, where the film was shot in Tiruvallur , Chennai and Kanchipuram . The film was officially announced in September 2015, and a four-month long post-production process began the same month. Vishal Chandrasekhar composed the soundtrack and musical score, while Shreyaas Krishna handled the cinematography . Editing was done by Kurtz Schneider. Jil Jung Juk
6624-523: The help of a scientist Marundhu, Deivanayagam sells the drugs by coating them in Ambassador car painted pink so that it would not be detected by the police. Along the way, Jil, Jung and Juk encounter Narasimhan, who has an almost identical car. Narasimhan eventually befriends the trio and takes them into a pub. After a drink at night, the trio escapes the pub without his knowledge but later realize that they have taken Narasimhan's car in their drunken state. It
6720-699: The hill country . Tamil or dialects of it were used widely in the state of Kerala as the major language of administration, literature and common usage until the 12th century CE. Tamil was also used widely in inscriptions found in southern Andhra Pradesh districts of Chittoor and Nellore until the 12th century CE. Tamil was used for inscriptions from the 10th through 14th centuries in southern Karnataka districts such as Kolar , Mysore , Mandya and Bengaluru . There are currently sizeable Tamil-speaking populations descended from colonial-era migrants in Malaysia , Singapore , Philippines , Mauritius , South Africa , Indonesia, Thailand, Burma , and Vietnam . Tamil
6816-432: The introduction of new aspectual auxiliaries and more complex sentence structures, and with the emergence of a more rigid word order that resembles the syntactic argument structure of English. In 1578, Portuguese Christian missionaries published a Tamil prayer book in old Tamil script named Thambiran Vanakkam , thus making Tamil the first Indian language to be printed and published. The Tamil Lexicon , published by
6912-482: The jokes fall flat many times, especially during the latter half." Sify gave 2 out of 5 stars and wrote "the film is occasionally Jil (Good) mostly Jung (Average) and largely Juk (Worst)" and further added "Just like any other dark comedies in Tamil cinema (most of them are inspired by Guy Ritchie flicks), here too each and every character has got interesting back stories and to be honest, they initially create good impression but over indulgence and repetitive gags spoils
7008-477: The key elements such as principal cast members , director , and cinematographer are set. By the end of pre-production, the screenplay is usually finalized and satisfactory to all the financiers and other stakeholders. During pre-production, the script is broken down into individual scenes with storyboards and all the locations, props , cast members, costumes , special effects , and visual effects are identified. An extremely detailed shooting schedule
7104-456: The latter of which is restricted to a few lexical items. Tamil employs agglutinative grammar, where suffixes are used to mark noun class , number , and case , verb tense and other grammatical categories. Tamil's standard metalinguistic terminology and scholarly vocabulary is itself Tamil, as opposed to the Sanskrit that is standard for most Indo-Aryan languages . Much of Tamil grammar
7200-619: The meaning "sweet sound", from tam – "sweet" and il – "sound". Tamil belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian languages , a family of around 26 languages native to the Indian subcontinent . It is also classified as being part of a Tamil language family that, alongside Tamil proper, includes the languages of about 35 ethno-linguistic groups such as the Irula and Yerukula languages (see SIL Ethnologue ). The closest major relative of Tamil
7296-531: The old aspect and time markers. The Nannūl remains the standard normative grammar for modern literary Tamil, which therefore continues to be based on Middle Tamil of the 13th century rather than on Modern Tamil. Colloquial spoken Tamil, in contrast, shows a number of changes. The negative conjugation of verbs, for example, has fallen out of use in Modern Tamil – instead, negation is expressed either morphologically or syntactically. Modern spoken Tamil also shows
7392-402: The planning ends and the content starts being produced. Pre-production formally begins once a project has been greenlit . It involves finalizing the script, hiring the actors and crew , finding locations, determining what equipment is needed, and figuring out the budget . At this stage, finalizing preparations for production go into effect. Financing will generally be confirmed and many of
7488-522: The quirky ideas used in the film, but criticised the team for "encouraging mainstream and discomfiting ideas". He further went on to say "it’s all rather queer, but fails necessarily equate to enjoyability". Malini Mannath of The New Indian Express wrote "Jil Jung Juk seems more a case where the actors seem to have had more fun enacting their scenes, than what the viewers experience watching them." S. Saraswathi of Rediff gave 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "The film does have its share of laughs, but it lacks
7584-428: The role of Sonu Sawant, a Mumbai -based actress who offered a role in a Tamil film , despite being not familiar in Tamil . This eventually takes a dig at the stereotypical portrayal of women in Tamil cinema , where directors include North Indian actresses in Tamil films as heroines, eventually wanted the female lead to be fair and dumb ( loosu ponnu ). The film also had a connection with Karakattakkaran (1989). In
7680-425: The show." Tamil language Sri Lanka Singapore Malaysia Canada and United States Tamil ( தமிழ் , Tamiḻ , pronounced [t̪amiɻ] ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia . It is one of the two longest-surviving classical languages in India , along with Sanskrit , attested since c. 300 BCE. The language belongs to
7776-539: The southern branch of the Dravidian language family and shares close ties with Malayalam and Kannada . Despite external influences, Tamil has retained a sense of linguistic purism, especially in formal and literary contexts. Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders, with inscriptions found in places like Sri Lanka , Thailand , and Egypt . The language has a well-documented history with literary works like Sangam literature , consisting of over 2,000 poems. Tamil script evolved from Tamil Brahmi, and later,
7872-465: The standard characters, six characters taken from the Grantha script , which was used in the Tamil region to write Sanskrit, are sometimes used to represent sounds not native to Tamil, that is, words adopted from Sanskrit, Prakrit , and other languages. The traditional system prescribed by classical grammars for writing loan-words, which involves respelling them in accordance with Tamil phonology, remains, but
7968-416: The teaser, in mid-November 2015, Siddharth announced that the film will have a theatrical release worldwide on 25 December 2015, coinciding with Christmas . However, following the 2015 South Indian floods that occurred during early-December, Siddharth announced that the theatrical release of the film will be postponed to 2016, as he and his team had to work on relief measures for the people who were affected by
8064-439: The three dimensions of physics, namely mass, time, and length, into human characters, and that is when we struck upon this new dimension of hit men and the title of Jil, Jung and Juk, which fit the characters beautifully. — Dheeraj Vaidy, on the pre-production and writing of Jil Jung Juk in an interview with The New Indian Express Jil Jung Juk marked the debut directorial venture of Deeraj Vaidy. During his career as
8160-510: The trio confronts Narasimhan about his plans and takes them with his car so that they can paint the car in pink and coat the stuff, but as they do not have cocaine, they decide to approach Attack Albert. Albert kidnaps the trio and eventually manages to escape the location with the stuff Albert has. Rowther reveals Deivanayagam's plans and decides to have a meeting with Deivanayagam. The trio is caught by Rowther's men and kept under their custody. During their business dealing, Deivanayagam reveals that
8256-437: The vatteluttu script was used until the current script was standardized. The language has a distinct grammatical structure, with agglutinative morphology that allows for complex word formations. Tamil is predominantly spoken in Tamil Nadu , India, and the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka . It has significant speaking populations in Malaysia , Singapore , and among diaspora communities . Tamil has been recognized as
8352-517: The word for "here"— iṅku in Centamil (the classic variety)—has evolved into iṅkū in the Kongu dialect of Coimbatore , inga in the dialects of Thanjavur and Palakkad , and iṅkai in some dialects of Sri Lanka . Old Tamil's iṅkaṇ (where kaṇ means place) is the source of iṅkane in the dialect of Tirunelveli , Old Tamil iṅkiṭṭu is the source of iṅkuṭṭu in
8448-526: Was a Tamilian himself, in a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament on 6 June 2004. The socio-linguistic situation of Tamil is characterised by diglossia : there are two separate registers varying by socioeconomic status , a high register and a low one. Tamil dialects are primarily differentiated from each other by the fact that they have undergone different phonological changes and sound shifts in evolving from Old Tamil. For example,
8544-586: Was claimed to be dated to around 580 BCE. John Guy states that Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders from India. Tamil language inscriptions written in Brahmi script have been discovered in Sri Lanka and on trade goods in Thailand and Egypt. In November 2007, an excavation at Quseir-al-Qadim revealed Egyptian pottery dating back to first century BCE with ancient Tamil Brahmi inscriptions. There are
8640-407: Was criticised for its pace and screenwriting. M. Suganth of The Times of India gave 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "To some extent, the director offsets such disappointments by providing us with a steady stream of quirkiness, but the climax, which is over-stretched and cliched, leaves us with a film that we admire but cannot wholeheartedly fall in love with." Sudhir Srinivasan of The Hindu praised
8736-476: Was eventually used in many important sequences. The film also explored the concept of butterfly effect (an idea about how a small incident causes larger effects), where in a scene that Jil ( Siddharth ) had this idea referring to a song "Oh Butterfly" from Meera (1992). However, there was a scene which had a flap of a butterfly's wing sets off a series of events, and some sequences referred this concept. The film's only female cast member, Jasmin Bhasin , played
8832-604: Was most likely spoken around the third millennium BCE, possibly in the region around the lower Godavari river basin. The material evidence suggests that the speakers of Proto-Dravidian were of the culture associated with the Neolithic complexes of South India, but it has also been related to the Harappan civilization . Scholars categorise the attested history of the language into three periods: Old Tamil (300 BCE–700 CE), Middle Tamil (700–1600) and Modern Tamil (1600–present). About of
8928-475: Was revealed that Narasimhan was assigned by Deivanayagam's assistant Pai and Marundhu, to steal the car and sell it to a gangster named Attack Albert. Confused, the trio went to a shooting spot where they see a car being used in an action sequence, left damaged after the shoot. It was later revealed that the car was considered to be the Ambassador car, that was Deivanayagam assigned to deliver. Shocked and dismayed,
9024-451: Was the emergence of the present tense. The present tense evolved out of the verb kil ( கில் ), meaning "to be possible" or "to befall". In Old Tamil, this verb was used as an aspect marker to indicate that an action was micro-durative, non-sustained or non-lasting, usually in combination with a time marker such as ṉ ( ன் ). In Middle Tamil, this usage evolved into a present tense marker – kiṉṟa ( கின்ற ) – which combined
9120-399: Was theatrically released worldwide on 12 February 2016, where it generally received mixed-to-positive reviews. Critics praised its offbeat elements, concept, cast performances, technical aspects, and the use of color palettes , but criticized for its pace and screenwriting. Despite the average performance at the box office, Jil Jung Juk was considered as one of the '25 Greatest Tamil Films of
9216-463: Was turned to be "off-beat and conventional" and had an "innovative scope" in the script. Likely, Siddharth had planned to take a break from acting commitments after his films Kaaviya Thalaivan (2014) and Enakkul Oruvan (2015) underperformed at the box-office despite getting good reviews, had reconsidered his plans to act in the film. Apart from acting, Siddharth agreed to produce the venture under Etaki Entertainment, thus becoming his second film as
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