Lubber Pandhu (U)
20/Sep/2024 Sports, Drama 2hrs 26mins

3.25

A Wholesome Entertainer Powered With Solid Drama

The screenplay is engaging throughout, packed with neatly built emotions, laughable comedy moments plus cricket. The minor flaws thankfully don�t affect the totality of the output(more)

Source: Ashwin Ram, MovieCrow

4.00

Sports, spice, and everything nice perfectly come together in this riveting family drama

alent can come from anywhere, and you can�t stop it from bursting out through closed doors, veiled grounds, or tall walls. Talent will find a way, just like how Tamizharasan has found a way to enter mainstream cinema and tell a story that he truly believed in. Lubber Pandhu is the result of honesty,...(more)

Source: Avinesh , Indian Express

4.00

This sports-drama bowls you over with all-round excellence

. Now and then, the film registers the idea that Anbu is a �virundhaali player�, rejected by his environment and left to play for those he feels no attachment for. And yet, the film is quite careful not to make this issue the centrepiece, not to make an activist out of Anbu. It tries to quietly get ...(more)

Source: Sudhir Sreenivasan, CinemaExpress.com

4.00

The year's most wholesome entertainer

The director also deserves praise for the quiet dignity with which all the female characters are treated. In fact, this is that rare film where even the negative characters, like Venkatesh (TSK), a player in Jolly Friends, aren't villains, but flesh-and-blood people who behave the way they do becaus...(more)

Source: Suganth, Times Of India

3.50

Harish Kalyan, Attakathi Dinesh hit it out of the park with this wholesome entertainer

As with every Tamil film on cricket, there�s ample scope for humour thanks to the colloquial game commentary, but Lubber Pandhu takes it up a notch with the characters played by Bala Saravanan and Jenson Dhivakar. The film also does a wonderful job when it comes to managing its secondary characters ...(more)

Source: GOPINATH RAJENDRAN, The Hindu

3.50

A cricket film that celebrates girl power, calls out caste system

Throughout Lubber Pandhu, we get subplots about caste discrimination in cricket. The 2014 film Jeeva, starring Vishnu Vishal, is a sports film that talked about the discrimination in the cricketing world and exposed the faulty system. 10 years later, Lubber Pandhu effectively portrays this issue and...(more)

Source: Janani, India Today

3.50

This sports-drama bowls you over with all-round excellence

Lubber Pandhu may have been conceived as an entertainer meant to appeal to everyone, but its understanding of everyday life is unusually sharp. See how director Tamizharasan builds up tension with just a simple scene of Anbu and his friend gossipping about Gethu, unaware that he�s nearby. The tensio...(more)

Source: Sudhir Sreenivasan, The New Indian Express