Michael gives up his dream of becoming a footballer after his father's murder. However, a friend convinces him to coach a women's football team and turn his life around.Michael gives up his dream of becoming a footballer after his father's murder. However, a friend convinces him to coach a women's football team and turn his life around.Michael gives up his dream of becoming a footballer after his father's murder. However, a friend convinces him to coach a women's football team and turn his life around.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 6 nominations total
- Vembu
- (as Indhuja)
Featured reviews
Director Atlee presents a decent entertainer which mines the charisma of the star to a large extent.
Bigil also benefits from the fact that the entire movie and the semblance of a story is not entirely buried under the build-up for the star.
In Bigil, Atlee places his star Vijay shining bright at the center of the universe with the plot itself and the subplots merrily orbiting him as minor satellites.
Rahman delivers a rousing anthem and a good score. There is nothing - including the music or performances - that could be counted as superlative in any sense. Still, the entire movie works and doesn't feel like a tedium despite having a runtime of almost three hours.
The fact that this movie remains largely coherent on a whole does not make you cringe despite its runtime is no minor blessing.
The latter half was dominated by the girls, which actually made the film happening, apart from the comic relief by Yogi and Vivek. ARR delivered one of the finest BGM for a non-Maniratnam movie, after a long time
The way this man carries the movie, Thalapathy Vijay is surely in his pinnacle of his career.
Witnessing a man making mockery of how unbearable the movie was, and yet staying through till the end credits, summarises the result!
Bottomline - a fantasy commercial film backed up by high production value.
Go for it. Have fun. But, don't forget to switch off your critic sense, especially if you are a football fanatic.
Did you know
- TriviaIt is the 3rd movie of Vijay and Nayanthara combo.
- GoofsDuring the interval scene, when Michael (Vijay) climbs on to the moving train, he leaps with his left-leg in front, but ends up landing with his right-leg in front.
- Quotes
Michael Rayappan (Bigil): When you played only for yourself, you couldn't do it. But when you played for the team, you were able to do it. That is the team spirit you idiot! Don't play for the name on the back of your t-shirt! Play for the homeland etched in your heart. Every goal you score is not your individual glory but your team's effort. Goal of your audience who is supporting you and goal of your state!
- Alternate versionsA.R. Rahman and Atlee's cameo is deleted from the Hindi dubbed version.
- ConnectionsFeatures Panathottam (1963)
- SoundtracksSingappenney (Tamil)
Music by A.R. Rahman
Lyrics by Vivek
Performed by A.R. Rahman, Shashaa Tirupati
Additional Vocals by Arjun Chandy, Nakul Abhyankar, Veena Murali, Deepthi Suresh, Deepak, Soundarya, Niranjana, Swagatha, Sowmya, Aravind Srinivas, Jithin, Shenbagaraj
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Details
Box office
- Budget
- ₹1,400,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $2,441,136
- Runtime2 hours 59 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1