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5 reviews
32
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Summary
Laabam (2021, Tamil) has a Filmi Score of 32 from 5 critic reviews, is rated 13+ by Filmi (CBFC: U), and streams on Netflix in the US.
The president of a farmers' association wants to set up a community farming initiative and takes on a big shot, who wants to destroy his plans so that he can start a bio-diesel project on the land.
Where to watchAvailability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.
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Cast & crew
Cast
Directed by S. P. Jananathan · written by S. P. Jananathan & N. Kalyanakrishnan · music D. Imman
S. P. JananathanDirector · Writer
N. KalyanakrishnanWriter
D. ImmanMusic
RamjiCinematography
N Ganesh KumarEditing
Vijay SethupathiLead
Shruti Haasan
Jagapati Babu
Kalaiyarasan
Sai Dhanshika
Ramesh Thilak
Prithvi Pandiarajan
Daniel Annie Pope
G. Marimuthu
Vincent Asokan
Shanmugarajan
O. A. K. Sundar
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SoundT. Udayakumar
Production designV Selvakumar
ChoreographyKalyan Kumar · Nagendra Prasad · Cool Jayanth
LyricsYugabharathi
ActionDon Ashok
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Summary
The president of a farmers' association wants to set up a community farming initiative and takes on a big shot, who wants to destroy his plans so that he can start a bio-diesel project on the land.
Laabam (2021, Tamil) has a Filmi Score of 32 from 5 critic reviews, is rated 13+ by Filmi (CBFC: U), and streams on Netflix in the US.
Where to watch
Availability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.What the critics said
5 reviews · the critic’s own number where they gave one
The critic’s own number where they gave one
Karthik Keramalu · 9 Sep 2021
The Quint likens Laabam to a social-science class whose ideas land as dialogue 'bullet points' rather than drama, but credits it for handling… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
45
M Suganth · 9 Sep 2021
Laabam Movie Review: Laabam has good intentions but messy storytelling Read it there →
Published · 2.5/5
Filmi’s reading 35
50
Srinivasa Ramanujam · 9 Sep 2021
The critic finds the film's anti-capitalist intentions noble but the execution a barren, lecture-heavy slog with ludicrous plotting, closing by… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
28
Vivek M.V. · 9 Sep 2021
'Laabam' movie review: Vijay Sethupathi, the preachy professor Read it there →
Published · 2/5
Filmi’s reading 28
40
Sudhir Srinivasan · 10 Sep 2021
Cinema Express says Laabam prioritises anti-capitalist messaging over story, calling it lecture-like with a miscast Shruti Haasan, an unfocused… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
25
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 5 readings; 2 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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Where can I watch Laabam?
Laabam is streaming on OTT: Netflix (India, the US and Canada) and Sun NXT (India, the US, the UK and Canada). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Laabam?
Laabam has a Filmi Score of 32 (Weak), the mean of 5 readings of critic reviews, one per review. Readings run from 25 (Cinema Express) to 45 (The Quint). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
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