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2025 · Tamil · 4h 19m · Drama, Family
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Filmi Score
Very good
4 reviews · provisional
71
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Critics call this autobiographical debut visually assured and unflinchingly honest about a cruel father, though the trimmed cut feels jerky and the second half repeats with no clear ending.
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Summary
Naangal (2025, Tamil) has a Filmi Score of 71 from 4 critic reviews, and streams on Sun NXT in the US.
It's the 1990s, in a sleepy hillside town in Southern India there is a cavernous mansion surrounded by plantations, inside three preadolescent brothers live with their German shepherd. They buy the groceries, lug water up the slopes in plastic cans, get each other ready for school and lend a hand to workers on the estate. The boys may practically run the house, but the lord of this forsaken domain is their father, a ruthless martinet whose mere sight frightens them to the core.
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It's the 1990s, in a sleepy hillside town in Southern India there is a cavernous mansion surrounded by plantations, inside three preadolescent brothers live with their German shepherd. They buy the groceries, lug water up the slopes in plastic cans, get each other ready for school and lend a hand to workers on the estate. The boys may practically run the house, but the lord of this forsaken domain is their father, a ruthless martinet whose mere sight frightens them to the core.
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.
Rangan calls this autobiographical debut deeply personal and visually assured, praising its unsentimental portrait of a loving but cruel father… Read it there →
Cinema Express praises Naangal's disciplined black-and-white/colour visual language, its young cast, and Ved Shankar Sugavanam's score, calling… Read it there →
THR India calls Naangal an unnerving, unflinchingly honest portrait of parental abuse, admiring its long-take craft. It closes noting the… Read it there →
Ananda Vikatan praises the performances, cinematography and restrained first-half writing, but says the second half repeats itself, leaves the… Read it there →
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48
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Where can I watch Naangal?
Naangal is streaming on OTT: Sun NXT (India, the US, the UK and Canada). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Naangal?
Naangal has a Filmi Score of 71 (Very 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 48 (Ananda Vikatan) to 90 (Galatta Plus). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
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