2025 Comedy, Drama 2hrs 29mins

Critics Review

2.75

An Adequate Drama on Alcohol De-Addiction!

Typical outline where the hero does something throughout the movie and conveys a message against it at the end. Yet a noble content taken decently, the first hour is a safe-bet, essential arc but a crisper later half would have made it a better outing. (more)

Source: Ashwin Ram, MovieCrow

3.00

Guru Somasundaram, Sanchana Natarajan shoulder a message-heavy but pertinent film

But that�s the reason why a movie like Bottle Radha should exist. It reminds people of how easy it is to allow the drink to drink you. Radhamani didn�t start off as an alcoholic. Like many others, he started off as someone who would just have a �cutting�� and that is why it wasn�t Ashokan or Anjalam, or even Radhamani�s kids who made him change over a new leaf, and get over his addiction. It was his decision, and that�s why in many of our quests to be free of our vices, there is no point searching for a moral compass outside of the self. It is safely lodged inside us waiting for us to say yes to accepting the change� and what Shawshank Redemption and Bottle Radha teach us is that� hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.(more)

Source: Avinash , Indian Express

2.75

Guru Somasundaram powers a scathing drama that goes for heart over intellect

The film is so focused on taking us through the highs and lows of Radha�s alcoholism that it forgets to make him whole. This is disappointing because in a scene he tells Anjalam about how despite starting his days with a lot of resoluteness to not drink, �something� pulls him back to the bottle. This something sometimes is external � like his friend Shake (Pari Elavazhagan) whose idea of a grand death is to die drinking � but except for a detail about his childhood, we don�t get much to understand the internal struggle of Radha. The film repeatedly tells us that every time he feels low, he goes on a bender and that he hasn�t seen all that lies beyond the bottle.(more)

Source: BHUVANESH CHANDAR, The Hindu

2.50

This message in a bottle drowns in didacticism

Bottle Radha is a sincere effort to dissect the mechanism and destructive force of addiction, built through several impressive elements brought together by the director. However, we don�t connect with Radha Mani as much as we pity or empathise with him. His slow and arduous climb out of depression after his phenomenal fall is captivating to watch but we don�t hope for his redemption with zeal. Radha Mani lacks the captivating appeal of a protagonist(more)