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2011 · Tamil · 2h 32m · Drama, Family, Romance
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Filmi Score
Good
4 reviews · provisional
64
3 very good1 weak
What the critics say
Critics mostly welcome Vijay's return to easygoing romantic comedy, praising his comic timing and dance, though they call the screenplay thin and loose, the Vijay-Asin chemistry flat, and the pacing slack, landing as just about average.
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Summary
Kaavalan (2011, Tamil) has a Filmi Score of 64 from 4 critic reviews, and streams on Sun NXT in the US.
Bhoominathan aka Bhoomi is introduced to us as a person who gets into many local fights. Worried about his future, his family sends him to Muthuramalingam , a much respected personality in his place Semmanur, to put Bhoomi's life on the right track. But things don't go as planned. Muthuramalingam's adversary threatens to kill his daughter Meera as a revenge against his own daughter's fate. So Bhoomi is given the job of Meera's bodyguard at college. Meera goes to college with her friend Madhu but is irritated by Bhoomi's presence everywhere. So she devises a plan.
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Bhoominathan aka Bhoomi is introduced to us as a person who gets into many local fights. Worried about his future, his family sends him to Muthuramalingam , a much respected personality in his place Semmanur, to put Bhoomi's life on the right track. But things don't go as planned. Muthuramalingam's adversary threatens to kill his daughter Meera as a revenge against his own daughter's fate. So Bhoomi is given the job of Meera's bodyguard at college. Meera goes to college with her friend Madhu but is irritated by Bhoomi's presence everywhere. So she devises a plan.
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Availability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.
Pavithra Srinivasan calls Kaavalan a nostalgic, low-key comeback letting Vijay play a restrained comic romantic again, undercut by a loose,… Read it there →
Upperstall finds Kaavalan slow and slack next to its Malayalam source, with Vijay lackluster outside the fight and dance scenes and Asin repeating… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
35
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Kaavalan: quick answers
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Where can I watch Kaavalan?
Kaavalan is streaming on OTT: Sun NXT (India, the US, the UK and Canada), Vi Movies and TV (India), MX Player (India) and Amazon Prime Video Free (India). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Kaavalan?
Kaavalan has a Filmi Score of 64 (Good), 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 35 (Upperstall.com) to 78 (Times of India). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
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