Sanjana Pulugurtha
Times Of India
Mahendragiri Varahi
2026 · Times Of India
Watch this film for the mythology and Sumanth's measured performance, but the slow-paced storytelling holds it back. The royal legend thrills, but the script needed divine intervention.
Anumana Pakshi
2026 · Times Of India
The film could have been a clever comedy about paranoia, trust and the stories people create in their own heads. Instead, it becomes increasingly cluttered as it tries to accommodate too many genres. What starts as an offbeat idea eventually becomes a tiring exercise in suspicion, leaving the comedy and mystery both short of their potential.
Garividi Lakshmi
2026 · Times Of India
Yet a story as layered as Lakshmi's calls for more than a chronological account of struggle and perseverance. Greater attention to the turning points in her life, the relationships that shaped her and the consequences of betrayal could have made the emotional journey considerably more powerful.
The Paradise
2026 · Times Of India
What begins as an intriguing, atmospheric period action drama eventually becomes an overextended succession of violent confrontations, leaving much of the promise of its opening half unrealised. The sharp drop in writing quality after the interval is difficult to overlook.