Jolly O Gymkhana

Comedy Tamil

Set in Tenkasi, Bhavani and her family navigate unexpected challenges, after their dream venture is thwarted, comes into contact with a corpse and forced to take an adventure trip to Kodaikanal.

Cast:	Prabhu Deva, Madonna Sebastian, Yogi Babu, Abhirami, Pujita Ponnada, M. S. Bhaskar, John Vijay, Boxer Dheena, Redin Kingsley, TSR, Madhusudhan Rao
Director:	Sakthi Chidambaram
Writer:	Sakthi Chidambaram
Editor:	M. Niranjan Antony, R. Ramar
Camera:	M. C. Ganesh Chandra

All Guild Reviews of Jolly O Gymkhana

Image of scene from the film Jolly O Gymkhana

Prabhudeva, Abhirami-lead ensemble shoulder this slightly funny but sloppy comedy

Avinash Ramachandran | The New Indian Express

Sun, December 1 2024

While director Sakthi Chidambaram asks us to not question the logic, it would have been better if more time was spent in structuring the narrative instead of throwing one random scene after another.

There has been a legitimate paucity of quality comedy films this year in Tamil cinema. So, when Sakthi Chidambaram, a veteran of this genre, even if his recent films were just a shadow of his form in the mid 2000s, closes the year with Jolly O Gymkhana, a comedy, it is okay to have your hopes up. But the filmmaker starts off by introducing Yogi Babu as Father Martin Luther King, and makes him walk out of the toilet and say lines like “Unakku life problem, enakku piles problem.” You think that is bad? It gets worse with him telling Madonna Sebastian’s Bhavani that he can’t help her sleeping problem because he is suffering from a sitting problem. You think that is worse? Bhavani, who narrates her backstory, says, “Kadhaiyoda moolathulerndhu kelunga (Listen to the story from the core)” and of course, Yogi Babu replies, “Already moolam dhaan ma prachana (My you-know-what is already sore).” And we are just five minutes into Jolly O Gymkhana.