Jothi (2022 Film)
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''Jothi'' () is a 2022 Indian
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-language
crime thriller film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as drama or gangster film, but al ...
directed by AV Krishna Paramatma, starring Vetri,
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,
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, S P Rajasethupathi and
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. The film was released on 28 July 2022.


Plot

The movie begins with Aruljothi, a pregnant woman, who is due to give birth in four days. Her husband, Ashwin, a doctor, leaves for an emergency case, and Jothi is alone at home. When the scene cuts, Jothi's tummy is being stitched by an unknown person, and the baby has been stolen. The police, including Sakthi, Jothi's friend Janaki's husband, investigate the case. It is revealed that Jothi is adopted and has a sister, Nisha, who is envious of Jothi's wealth. When the police watch CCTV footage, they see Ranga, a former driver of Ashwin and Jothi, enter the house before the camera stops working. When questioned, Ranga confesses that he went to ask for money from Jothi as his mother needed a kidney transplant. He recalls Nisha arguing with Jothi and threatening to kill her. Nisha reveals that she has a suspicion about someone who stalked them when they went out. The police find out that Arun Kumar, a regular visitor to the hospital where Jothi is admitted, broke the hospital window and was struggling financially. However, they later discover that his wife and child died due to complications during delivery. The lab results from the blood collected at Jothi's house reveal that two blood groups were found, one belonging to Jothi and the other belonging to the criminal, who is female, AB−, and under 30 years old with
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. The police suspect Janaki, who has been depressed due to her inability to conceive. They confront her, and she admits to seeing Ashwin with Kamini, the managing director of Kamini Hospitals, who is also Janaki's doctor and Ashwin's ex-lover. She also confesses that Ashwin had forced her to abort many times. The police later identify the criminal as Shanti, who works at Kamini hospital, and arrest her. When Shanti is beaten by a policewoman, she admits that Ranga took her to Jothi's house, but someone else told her to do it. Sakthi then confronts Jothi, Ashwin, Nisha, and Janaki at the hospital where Sakthi reveals that Jothi was the one who told Shanti to do it. Later Ranga reveals that Ashwin sells new born babies to rich couples. To get back at Ashwin, Jothi gives the baby to one of the victim's family.


Cast


Production

The film's plot was based on a real-life kidnapping incident that took place in
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, and it was shot during the relaxed COVID restrictions in 2021.


Reception

A critic from ''
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'' called the film "an amateurish investigative thriller", adding "rather than give us a plausible investigative thriller, director Krishna Paramathma goes for melodrama and amateurish police work that dashes our hopes". A reviewer from ''
Cinema Express ''Cinema Express'' was an Indian Tamil language, Tamil-language entertainment fortnightly magazine published from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was a part of The New Indian Express, The New Indian Express Group, which also publishes ''Samakalika Mal ...
'' noted it was "a shoddy, forgettable film" and "one of those true-incidents-inspired-films that never raises above mediocrity".


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* {{IMDb title, tt21345936 2022 films 2020s Tamil-language films 2020s Indian films Indian crime thriller films 2022 crime thriller films