The Good, The Average, The Unworthy) is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language neo-Western post-apocalyptic black comedy film directed by Deeraj Vaidy, in his directorial debut.

[1] In the 2020 post-apocalyptic Chennai, amidst the huge demand for petrol and money, Deivanayagam, an erstwhile powerful gangster gets a chance to smuggle cocaine to defeat his nemesis Rolex Rowther.

Deivanayagam hires three guys: Nanjil Sivaji (Jil), Jambulingam (Jung), and Jaguar Jagan (Juk), to safely deliver the cocaine to a Chinese gang in Hyderabad.

With the help of a scientist Marundhu, Deivanayagam sells the drugs by coating them in Ambassador car painted pink so that it would not be detected by the police.

It was revealed that Narasimhan was assigned by Deivanayagam's assistant Pai and Marundhu, to steal the car and sell it to a gangster named Attack Albert.

A gang-war takes place between Deiva and Rowther's men until Albert arrives and kills the two gangsters so that he could be a powerful drug lord.

The Chinese gang, who had been waiting for the delivery, feels dejected that Jil didn't arrive, and they cancel the deal midway leaving empty-handed.

[8] The film's technical crew consists of relatively newcomers: except for composer Vishal Chandrashekhar, debutant Shreyaas Krishna handled the cinematography, whilset Kurtz Schneider was the editor.

[5] Avinash Raghudevan and Sananth Reddy were cast in other leading roles as Jambulingam (Jung) and Jaguar Jagan (Juk).

[10][20] Being set in a futuristic world, the film explores the three dimensions of physics — mass, time and length — as human characters, describing Jil, Jung and Juk.

[26][22] Vishal Chandrashekhar composed the soundtrack for Jil Jung Juk, which had five songs written by Vivek, Deeraj Vaidy and Siddharth.

[29] The soundtrack featured vocals by Anirudh Ravichander, Santhosh Narayanan, Sean Roldan, Anthony Daasan, Andrea Jeremiah, Kavita Thomas.

On 10 November 2015, coinciding with Diwali, the music video of the promotional track "Shoot the Kuruvi" was launched by actor Salman Khan through YouTube.

A critic from Behindwoods praised the composer for delivering all the songs in a quirky and unconventional western genre; he called the album as "truly international" and rated 3.25 out of five.

[31] Writing for BollywoodLife.com, H Shivakumar called the liberal mixture of EDM, jazz, contemporary R&B, rock, dubstep and Western folk as "fantastic" but criticised the lyrical similarities in the songs; he gave verdict saying "the album is quirky and catchy and does not deviate from the film's theme" with a rating of three-and-a-half out of five.

[36][37] Following the wide response for the teaser, in mid-November 2015, Siddharth announced that the film will have a theatrical release worldwide on 25 December 2015,[38] coinciding with Christmas.

[51] Jil Jung Juk received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics with praise towards its offbeat themes, characterisations and technical aspects, but was criticised for its pace and screenwriting.

[52] M. Suganth of The Times of India gave 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "To some extent, the director offsets such disappointments by providing us with a steady stream of quirkiness, but the climax, which is over-stretched and cliched, leaves us with a film that we admire but cannot wholeheartedly fall in love with.

[26] Malini Mannath of The New Indian Express wrote "Jil Jung Juk seems more a case where the actors seem to have had more fun enacting their scenes, than what the viewers experience watching them.

"[55] Latha Srinivasan of Daily News and Analysis criticised the script as "it falls short of expectations, particularly in the second half", however praised the major technical aspects and other novel elements featured in the film, calling it as a "must watch for those who would love to attempt for something different in Tamil cinema".

[56] Arathi Kannan of Manorama Online gave 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "Jil Jung Juk a dark comedy could only be justified to some extent, for it doesn't employ the noir elements (popularised by Korean and Hollywood masters) like the brilliance of violence, satirical narrative or even a style statement making cast to their fullest standing.

[57] Indiaglitz gave 3.75 out of 5 stars and wrote "It is commendable that Dheeraj has infused elements of humor in every bit of voiceover, comic strip, title card and subtitle and for extracting neat performances from every cast member.

"[59] In contrast, Gauthaman Bhaskaran of Hindustan Times gave 1.5 out of 5 stars and said "Siddharth, Avinash Raghudevan and Sananth Reddy produce enough laughs through some great one-liners in the first half of the film; but this becomes a serious flaw post intermission, when Vaidy, who also wrote the script, runs out of ideas and begins to stretch scenes till they appear irritatingly repetitive.

"[61] Sify gave 2 out of 5 stars and wrote "the film is occasionally Jil (Good) mostly Jung (Average) and largely Juk (Worst)" and further added "Just like any other dark comedies in Tamil cinema (most of them are inspired by Guy Ritchie flicks), here too each and every character has got interesting back stories and to be honest, they initially create good impression but over indulgence and repetitive gags spoils the show.