2022 Thriller, Crime

Critics Review

3.00

A twist-filled investigative thriller

Paappan is a good suspense thriller movie, if you are ready to face some high voltage melodrama and many twists, but for Suresh Gopi, you can take this.(more)

Source: TOI, Times Of India

2.00

There isn't a phase in the screenplay where the trajectory taken by the proceedings will excite you.

The rendering style of the movie is slightly on the dated side from veteran director Joshiy. But the major slack of the blame here has to be given to the writing. The screenplay by RJ Shaan is excessive. When you backtrack the whole movie, it takes too much time to establish the past of Paappan, and the core story is happening in the later half of the movie. And the lack of novelty in approaching the concept makes the whole movie an unexciting mold the audiences are familiar. The frames have that level of black one would expect in a thriller of this sort. I liked the score by Jakes Bejoy for the opening sequence and the interval block.(more)

Source: Ashwin Bharadwaj, Lenmenreviews

2.50

Suresh Gopi and Neeta Pillai shine in Joshiy�s crime thriller

Paappan is an entertainer that does not deviate from the main plot, and an interesting movie for those who enjoy crime thrillers with a few differences.(more)

Source: Saraswathy Nagarajan, The Hindu

2.00

Few neat touches in largely exhausting film

We don�t get to see anything inventive in terms of the storytelling/filmmaking approach either. Once again, we get the much-familiar zooms and frame rate manipulations we have seen numerous times before. The familiarity is also a problem with respect to the visuals (teal-and-orange lighting) and Jakes Bejoy�s repetitively deja vu-inducing score. At a time when we have seen superior investigative thrillers from all over the world, Paappan feels quite outdated.(more)