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Filmi Score
Very good
9 reviews
78
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Critics widely praise Writer as a realistic, humanising police drama built around a standout Samuthirakani performance, though several note it piles on too many themes and loses focus in the back half.
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Summary
Writer (2021, Tamil) has a Filmi Score of 78 from 9 critic reviews, is rated 12+ by Filmi (CBFC: U/A), and streams on Aha in the US.
A writer at a police station gets trapped in an illegal custody case involving an innocent PHD student. With his guilt and regret looming large, can he save the young man?
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Cast
Directed and written by Franklin Jacob · music Govindh Vasantha
Franklin JacobWriter · Director
Govindh VasanthaMusic
Pratheep KalirajaCinematography
Manigandan SivakumarEditing
SamuthirakaniLead
Hari Krishnan
Kavin Jay Babu
Subramaniam Siva
Iniya
Dhileban
G. M. Sundar
Maheswari Chanakyan
Lizzie Antony
Bose Venkat
Kavitha Bharathi
Muthu Raman
Full crew
SoundG. Suren · S. Alagia Koothan
Production designA. Raja
CostumeM. Mohammed Subier
ChoreographySathish Krishnan
LyricsJ. Muthuvel · Yugabharathi
ActionSudesh
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Summary
A writer at a police station gets trapped in an illegal custody case involving an innocent PHD student. With his guilt and regret looming large, can he save the young man?
Writer (2021, Tamil) has a Filmi Score of 78 from 9 critic reviews, is rated 12+ by Filmi (CBFC: U/A), and streams on Aha 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.Not streaming yet
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What the critics said
9 reviews · the critic’s own number where they gave one
Five of 9 · the critic’s own number where they gave one
Bharathy Singaravel · 24 Dec 2021
Singaravel calls Writer a courageous, politically grounded rebuke of hero-cop cinema, praising its unflinching look at caste and police violence… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
90
Haricharan Pudipeddi · 24 Dec 2021
Pudipeddi calls Writer one of Tamil cinema's most important films, praising its humanising, anti-heroic take on policing and standout performances… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
86
Siddarth Srinivas · 25 Dec 2021
The critic calls Writer a realistic, engrossing procedural drama anchored by a towering Samuthirakani performance, naming it among the year's best… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
83
Ashameera Aiyappan · 24 Dec 2021
Writer movie review: An insightful, unvarnished peek into the police force Read it there →
Published · 3.5/5
Filmi’s reading 78
70
Srinivasa Ramanujam · 24 Dec 2021
Ramanujam finds Writer engaging and true-to-life, praising Samuthirakani's understated performance and the film's realistic police-station… Read it there →
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76
Logesh Balachandran · 24 Dec 2021
Writer Movie Review: An honest attempt that could have been made better Read it there →
Published · 3.0/5
Filmi’s reading 63
60
Sudhir Srinivasan · 24 Dec 2021
Srinivasan admires Writer's characterisation of its weary protagonist and its unusual perspective but finds the film overstuffed with themes and… Read it there →
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58
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; 4 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 Writer?
Writer is streaming on OTT: Aha (India, the US and Canada) and Prime Video (the UK). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Writer?
Writer has a Filmi Score of 78 (Very good), the mean of 9 readings of critic reviews, one per review. Readings run from 58 (Cinema Express) to 90 (The News Minute). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
What readers say
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