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2023 · Tamil · 2h 35m · Thriller, Drama · IMDA PG13
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Weak
4 reviews · provisional
34
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Summary

Bakasuran (2023, Tamil) has a Filmi Score of 34 from 4 critic reviews, is rated — by Filmi (IMDA: PG13), and streams on Prime Video in India.

A street performer is on a killing spree and a retired army man turned YouTuber tracks an online sex racket parallely. How do their lives connect and what is the street performer really seeking?

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Summary

A street performer is on a killing spree and a retired army man turned YouTuber tracks an online sex racket parallely. How do their lives connect and what is the street performer really seeking?

Bakasuran (2023, Tamil) has a Filmi Score of 34 from 4 critic reviews, is rated — by Filmi (IMDA: PG13), and streams on Prime Video in India.

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What the critics said

4 reviews · the critic’s own number where they gave one
The critic’s own number where they gave one
17 Feb 2023
The reviewer calls Bakasuran a socially-driven drama that engages and marks a technical leap for the director, but flags a predictable, flat… Read it there →
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65
The critic finds Bakasuran's handling of sexual-harassment storylines repeatedly problematic and victimising toward women, despite earnest lead… Read it there →
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35
Sudhir Srinivasan · 17 Feb 2023
The critic calls out the film's palpable misogyny and gratuitous, lingeringly-shot violence toward women, and though he credits Selvaraghavan and… Read it there →
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20
Sowmya Rajendran · 17 Feb 2023
The critic finds Bakasuran both regressive in its gender politics and inert as a thriller, offering nothing new despite the violence and… Read it there →
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15
How this number was made. We read every review and derive a 0–100 reading from each — including where the critic printed a number, which stays first on its row, because it’s theirs. The Filmi Score is the mean of 4 readings; 0 of those rows also carry the critic’s own rating, shown beside ours. Rubric v2.1, computed 26 Oct 2026. Any critic can ask us to remove a derived reading.
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Bakasuran is streaming on OTT: Prime Video (India). It can also be rented or bought on Amazon Video (the US and the UK). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.

What did critics say about Bakasuran?

Bakasuran has a Filmi Score of 34 (Weak), the mean of 4 readings of critic reviews, one per review. The score is provisional until at least five reviews are read. Readings run from 15 (The News Minute) to 65 (OnlyKollywood). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.

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