Jagame Thandhiram Review: Dhanush is a one-man army in new Netflix gangster thriller

Director Karthik Subbaraj’s Jagame Thandhiram starring Dhanush, James Cosmo and Joju George starts as a quirky gangster thriller. But, it takes a serious route towards the second half with a message on racism.

Jagame Thandhiram is undoubtedly one of the most exciting films in recent times, thanks to the first collaboration of Dhanush and Karthik Subbaraj. Though the film took its own sweet time to hit the theatres for reasons quite known to people, it finally hit the web (read: Netflix) today amid huge expectations. Did Jagame Thandhiram live up to the expectation? Suruli (Dhanush) is a notorious gangster in Madurai, who knows how to make country bombs and has a knack for killing his enemies. Peter (James Cosmo) is a white supremacist and a racist in London, who hates immigrants. He aims to help the politician implement a law against immigrants. Sivadoss (Joju George) is a Sri Lankan immigrant who is Peter’s arch-nemesis. Peter hires Suruli as a contract gangster to kill Sivadoss. Suruli accepts the offer and jumps into it without much thought. But there is more to Sivadoss than what Suruli thinks. What is Sivadoss’s background and what is he fighting for? Will Suruli do what he's hired to do or will he take a different path? What happens to Sivadoss and Peter? These are some of the questions the film weaves its story around.