Keep your shortlist together and see where it’s streaming
2021 · Telugu · 2h 27m · Romance, Drama · BBFC 12
Keep your shortlist together and see where it’s streaming
Filmi Score
Good
9 reviews
63
4 very good4 good1 mixed
What the critics say
Critics praise Vijay Sethupathi's performance, Krithi Shetty's debut, the music and an emotional climax, but most call the romance predictable and borrowed from Sairat, with a slow, repetitive second half.
Audience Score · not yet · appears once three readers have written a review
Your rating
Rate it
Drag or tap the slider. Not rated yet.
–
Say why · optional, public under your name
StoryPerformancesMusicWatched
Posting as
Public, beside your review. Needed once you write words; a verdict or aspect numbers alone needs none.
Filmi reads what you write under the same rubric it uses for critics.
Praises Uppena as a visually rich, thoughtful romance that unusually interrogates masculinity, with standout performances, but faults a shallow… Read it there →
Finds Uppena's romance juvenile and its pacing boring, leaning on one extremely violent, disturbing twist to compensate, while crediting striking… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
48
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 9 readings; 7 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.
PublishedStated in videoDerived by FilmiNo score
One email on Fridays: the five films worth your time, read from every review. See the latest issue
Uppena: quick answers
Box office, where to watch and what critics said — from the same data as the page.
Where can I watch Uppena?
Uppena is streaming on OTT: Netflix (India, the US and Canada) and Goldmines Play (India). It can also be rented or bought on Apple TV (India, the US, the UK and Canada), YouTube (India, the US, the UK and Canada) and Google Play Movies (the US). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Uppena?
Uppena has a Filmi Score of 63 (Good), the mean of 9 readings of critic reviews, one per review. Readings run from 48 (The News Minute) to 78 (Telugu360). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
What readers say
The Audience Score appears once three readers’ reviews have been read under the rubric — built from what people write, never from the rating numbers.
Panja Vaisshnav TejLead
Krithi ShettyCast
Vijay SethupathiCast
Gayatri JayaramanCast
Rajsekhar AningiCast
