timesofindia - 8/10

For Mithran (Jayam Ravi), the protagonist of Thani Oruvan, a person's friend shows his character while his adversary shows his capacity. Mithran is a young IPS officer whose only goal in life is to find a worthy rival — a kingpin who is the root cause of all other crimes — and destroy him. He meets his match in Siddharth Abhimanyu (Arvind Swami, making a glorious return), an ambitious scientist-bu...

September 3, 2015

Reno - 8/10

> A cop vs an evil scientist! The ultimate clash! This is definitely your regular Indian style film, but the script was top notch, that's the vast difference you would find in this. It was a cop-thief clash theme something like the Korean film 'Veteran'. Initially I thought it might be a remake of some Korean film, because it looks like a Korean thriller, but after learning that it was an origi...

July 14, 2016

badelf - 8/10

There's good news and bad news. The good news is that this is an awesome, award-winning good-cop versus evil-villian action flick. The pacing is rapid, the script is great, the fight scenes are exciting, and the love-story subplot is mature and realistic. In spite of it being primarily a drama, Mohan Raja included the requisite Bollywood-style music interludes for the lovers, complete with seve...

August 11, 2023