Interview | Cinematographer Tirru on breaking the norms in ‘Jigarthanda Double X’
The HinduIt’s not every Friday we get films that not only impress with their writing and direction but also leave you spellbound with the visuals. A spiritual sequel to 2014 film Jigarthanda, Karthik Subbaraj’s Jigarthanda Double X brings together two contrasting worlds — the streets of Madurai and the forests of Kombai Sambala — and the visual storytelling adds gunpowder to Karthik’s writing. Excerpts from the conversation: The script of ‘Jigarthanda Double X’ is dense and a lot happens till the last frame. I thought it would look like a spin-off of Jigarthanda, but that film revolved only around a gangster’s locale; here, a filmmaker and a gangster are coming together for a bigger cause. Your debut was in ‘Magalir Mattum,’ a film by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao who famously pulled off some mind-blowing graphics in films like ‘Michael Madana Kama Rajan’.