Tamil Movie Review Peigal Jaakkirathai - Cast & Crew

Eshanya Maheshwari is an Indian actress who is a newbie in the Indian cinema. She started her career by acting in TV advertisements. Some of her well-known ads include Hiraj Fashion, Nalli Silks, Pothys in which she is portrayed beautifully wearing all kinds of saris and other accessories. She appeared in so many good looking advertisements that it earned her an entry ticket into the Cine field.

Kanmani is an Indian film director for both Tamil and Telugu language films. He first started his directing career in Tamil films and later gained more success and popularity with his direction of Tamil language films. Kanmani was born on 19 June 1980 and is 38 years of age as of 2018. Kanmani completed his educational degree at Presidency College, Chennai.

Mallikarjun, born on 5th March 1976 in Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh is an Indian music composer and playback singer who mostly works in Tamil, Telegu, and Kannada film industry. His father works as an engineer in the Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Department whereas his mother is a housewife. He also has a sister.

He is a multitalented writer belonging to the Southern India. He had given a new word to the English language ‘Lifotainment’ which means the entertainment through short stories or novels. He firmly believes that anything that is written should either influence oneself or the others in the society. He firmly believes that writings have the capability to bring about a change in one’s life or even the other’s life. He had different kinds of writings. He had written novels, dialogues and also poems. After completing his graduation, he went to Australia to study in the School of Journalism. He had served for three long years in the Tamil TV industry, and he is now involved completely in writing the stories for the Tamil movies. He had written the dialogues for the India’s foremost talkie-motion poster. He was born on 29th of May in the year 1982 in Chennai and is now 33 years old.

Viveka is a lyricist, who works in the Tamil film industry of South India. Viveka started as a lyricist in the year 2015. Viveka was born in 1985, and currently resides in Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu. Before venturing into the film industry, Viveka studied engineering and then law. Inspired by the work of Vairamuthu, a famous lyricist of the Tamil industry, he also began penning down poems. In the year 2015, he received his first breakthrough movie, “Enakkul Oruvan”, for which he wrote the lyrics of the songs “Poo Avizhum Pozhudhil”, and “Yaar”. After that, there was no looking back for this star lyricist. In the same year, he wrote lyrics for movies like “36 Vayadhinile”, "Indru Netru Naalai", “Maalai Naerathu Mayakkam”, and “144”. These included songs such as “Happy”, “Pogiren”, “Vaadi Raasathi”, “Kadhale Kadhale”, “Ennodu”, ” Mokka Piece”, “Mora Saiyyo”, and “Sarakka”. In the year of 2016, he has worked on four films, namely: “Kathakali”, “Irudhi Suttru”, “Aranmanai 2”, and “Jil Jung Juk”. He is working on the upcoming film, “Oru Naal Koothu”. These five in total include around ten songs that are being written by Viveka.

It's no secret that most celebrities use stunt doubles when filming particularly challenging scenes, but it's not something we always remember when caught up in the energy of an action-packed movie. In Indian film industry, particularly in Kollywood and Bollywood, stunt actors are indeed a must. 

Suresh Urs is an Indian movie editor, who works mainly in the South Indian cinema. He has worked in over 700 movies and 40 documentaries and TV shows. Suresh is mostly known for his collaboration with directors like Mani Ratnam, Girish Ratnad, Shankar Nag, T. S. Nagabharana, P. Vasu, Bala, Girish Kasarvalli, Saran and Baraguru Ramachandrappa. Suresh got the National Film Award for Best Editing work in movie Bombay (1995).

John Vijay was born in 1976. John is a Tamil film actor, who has contributed on playing many brace roles. He has mostly attempted the role as a comedian and villain in Tamil films. John did his Master of Science in Visual Communication from Loyola College.

Comedy is the forte of Manobala (Manobala Mahadevan), who is also a director. He was born on 4th June 1953 and acts in supporting roles too. His primary region of interest is Tamil. He has over 40 movies and 16 television serials to his credit. Having worked in 3 telefilms too, he has over 200 movies to his credit. He has worked under director Bharathiraja. 

Hailing from Sulur, Manobala forayed into the Tamil industry with the 1994 flick Thaaimaaman. Doing trivial roles initially, he switched to comedy later. He was appreciated for his comedy, and his skinny appearance added to the laughter of the audience. His rapport with Kamal Haasan, though commendable in the initial stages, was not good after some problems with the Directors Union. But later Manobala confessed that, he doesn’t hold any grudges with Kamal Haasan. The Sun TV program Asathapovathu Yaaru has Manobala’s presence frequently. He had a brief stint with production through the film Sathuranga Vettai. 

Oor Kavalan, Aagaya Gangai, Sirai Paravai, Moodu Manthiram, Pillai Nila, Moondrezhuthil En Moochirukkum, Karuppu Vellai and Nandini are a few flicks of his direction. As an actor his works are Natpukkaga, Taj Mahal, Annai, Minsara Kanna, Perazhagan, Priyasakhi, Samudhiram, Ghajini, Varalaaru, Thambi, Azhagiya Thamizh Magan, Santhosh Subramaniam, Polladhavan, Dindigul Sarathy, Abhiyum Naanum etc. Manobala is active in the industry from 1982 to till date. Manobala is credited to have done projects with three generations. He is a simple person and doesn’t like publicity. 

On his personal front Manobala is wedded to Usha. 

Manobala stated that people asked him to direct films like Pillai Nila. KS Ravikumar tapped his comical streak and his life changed a lot due to him. Manobala is grateful to K S Ravikumar for that. He feels that directing 40 films is indeed a commendable one.  

On 3rd May 2023, Manobala died in Chennai. He was suffering from illness related to pancreas. His sudden death saddened the film industry and fans.

Thambi Ramaiah, an Indian film actor, and director is considered as the busiest actors in Kollywod appearing in maximum movies that released in 2014. Once upon a time, he did not even how to make a foray into Kollywood. Anticipating for someone to give a chance in films, he had to wait till his luck could get him a status of an actor. 

V.I.S. Jayapalan is a writer of Indian origin. He is also a well-known political commentator and an actor who has acted in Tamil films. Born in Uduvil district of Jaffna in Sri Lanka, he gained a degree in Economics from the University of Jaffna and also was the leader of the student union there. His first anthology was published in 1986. After that he went on to publish 12 anthologies of poetry and short fiction.

Pandi, commonly known as 'Black Pandi,' is a comedy artist from Tamil Nadu. His original name is Lingeswaran. He is famous for his role in his debut television show 'Kana Kaanum Kaalangal’. He is in the field of cinema since the year 2000 and he has appeared in almost twenty-three movies. Some of the movies that he worked were Ghilli, Autograph, Angaadi Theru, Deiva Thirumagal, Velayutham, Saattai, Poojai, Jilla, etc. He belongs to a family of artists, where his ancestors were stage actors for many generations.

Jeeva Rathnam is a film actor from India who has primarily worked in the Kollywood Film Industry. He was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on May 11th, 1988. Jeeva is especially famous for his role as Saravanan in the movie Peigal Jaakkirathai, which was released on January 1st, 2016. Peigal Jaakkirathai is an Indian Tamil horror comedy written and directed by Kanmani, with Escape Artists Motion Pictures as the Distributing Company.