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05 Dec 2025, 2:51 am
Kuttram Purindhavan(3 / 5) Every character in Kuttram Purindhavan battles their own demons. Gautham (Vidaarth) is a recently demoted cop, who is struggling to win the trust of seniors and fully get back into the force. Esther (Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli) has an abusive husband and barely lives for herself, and Bhaskaran (Pasupathy) carries a mountain of secrets within himself, while battling his grandson’s serious brain illness. And what throws these people out of the frying pan and into the fire is Esther’s daughter Mercy’s disappearance. The case has more to do with exposing the psyche of each personality than the case itself. Think of it like a card game where each player’s power, trump and weakness cards are identified, assessed and used in various scenarios unbeknownst to them. Tricky spaces and dark alleyways—but debutant Selvamani Muniyappan doesn’t flinch before letting his viewers into this path where there is no way to return.
Cast: Pasupathy, Vidaarth, Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli and others
Director: Selvamani Muniyappan
Streaming on: SonyLiv
Perhaps, the series’ first drawback is that it gives away the central conflict in its first trailer and animation title card. While this does pull its engaging factor down a notch, it doesn’t stand as a major flaw. The filmmaker keeps enough pulsating points in each episode, not as a mere clickbait strategy, but makes it tight, tense and gripping in its screenplay even when audiences are aware of what will be thrown at them. It is an unlikely move, and a bold one at that, for the filmmaker to throw in all his dice in the first two episodes and build the story from there, betting it all on one powerhouse performer Pasupathy. Let’s just say that long stretches of him utilising a certain ‘cold equipment’ and the heaviness in its unavailability, sends a chill down the spine.
Set within a small village where everyone is a neighbour, and every character is a known person, there are not many turns one can take in a whodunnit to establish the key culprit, but Kuttram Purindhavan keeps the guesses aplenty, especially in the last two climactic episodes.
Guilt is a mighty emotion. An
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