So after that I had to shift it to the actual genre that I wanted to do. The idea was to make a comedy about the murderer wanting to be in the film being made by the filmmaker, but the lead up to it turned out to be a proper gangster film. In the process it became a gangster film. So we had to build a history, an opponent and a story for him. In the scenes prior to that we had to build up his character. So when we get to that scene even the audience needed to feel the panic of him getting busted. In my mind, the scene where the filmmaker gets caught by the gangster was the interval block. I needed to build up the gangster to a point so that the drama became interesting. But when I started writing the screenplay, I could not start the movie from that point. The idea began with a clash between a filmmaker and a gangster/murderer.

So when we went to talk to him, I got the idea of making Jigarthanda since he was more interested in being a part of the film we were making than actually explaining his story to us. So we wanted to understand what happens psychologically in that second. He gets insulted and in that second he spontaneously kills a person. If you see the short film, the cop kills a person momentarily. We decided to go about it psychologically. We thought we could speak to him and understand the psychology. It was then that he said that he knew someone in Alapakkam who was a bike mechanic and another friend of his had just come out from jail for murder. Manikandan (DoP) and I were talking regarding the scene and we did not want to make it the usual shooting scene. For Jigarthanda, we had done a short film here in Chennai, called Ravanan which involved a murder. My writing process is this – the starting point is the core idea. After that you can continue to make small changes, but the first draft is the spine and to create that it takes me a maximum of one month.ĪLSO READ: 6 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TAMIL DIRECTOR KARTHIK SUBBARAJ’S FILMS On His Writing Process And Where The Inspiration For Jigarthanda Came From Only that takes times, after that I enter the process. In my mind, to be satisfied that the screenplay is ready to be shot, it takes until I finish my first draft. I started pre-production on it and within a month I went for the shoot. There are some films, for example Mercury, for which I got the idea as a story and I wrote it in less than 10 days. You have time until you go for the shoot. I searched for producers but I didn’t find any. For example, I wrote Jigarthanda thinking it would be my first film. The remaining drafts depend upon when I am going to shoot.

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