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2025 · Tamil · 2h 05m · Comedy · CBFC A
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Filmi Score
Good
4 reviews · provisional
57
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Critics find real laughs in Ilango Ram's funeral farce, crediting Sunil's performance and a strong second half, but call the screenplay uneven and jumbled, dragging through stretches that flirt with monotony.
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Summary
Perusu (2025, Tamil) has a Filmi Score of 57 from 4 critic reviews, is rated 18+ by Filmi (CBFC: A), and streams on Netflix in the US.
After discovering their father dead, two estranged brothers are shocked to find something inside him is still alive. What should have been a day of somber mourning breaks Into a complete bedlam as the two sons try to conduct the funeral as discreetly as possible. Forced to navigate nosy relatives, hidden family secrets, and their own strained relationship with their father, the brothers must hold it all together—or risk letting everything unravel.
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After discovering their father dead, two estranged brothers are shocked to find something inside him is still alive. What should have been a day of somber mourning breaks Into a complete bedlam as the two sons try to conduct the funeral as discreetly as possible. Forced to navigate nosy relatives, hidden family secrets, and their own strained relationship with their father, the brothers must hold it all together—or risk letting everything unravel.
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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.
Cinema Express calls the supporting cast and second half 'terrific' and 'brilliant,' with Sunil singled out, though the screenplay is criticised… Read it there →
Scroll finds Ilango Ram's funeral farce genuinely funny in stretches, anchored by the Vaibhav-Sunil chemistry, though the father-son relationship… Read it there →
Unni Narayanan · YouTube, Malayalam · transcript read · 26 Mar 2025
Unni calls Perusu an average watch: the premise of a corpse's erection driving the comedy lands some laughs, especially in situational bits, but… Watch it there →
Ananda Vikatan credits Sunil's restrained performance and the cinematography-editing pairing, but faults the songs, an uneven tonal mix of comedy… Read it there →
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45
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Where can I watch Perusu?
Perusu is streaming on OTT: Netflix (India, the US, the UK and Canada). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Perusu?
Perusu has a Filmi Score of 57 (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 45 (Unni Vlogs Cinephile) to 75 (Cinema Express). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
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