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Critics Review
3.00
A stellar Swasika anchors this sensitive social drama with a few rough edges
Swasika wonderfully encapsulates the crushing pain of being alone and holds together the film, which superficially questions the stigma around widow remarriage (more)
Source: Avinash , CinemaExpress.com
3.50
Sasi lets entertainment carry the message home
This is a small film by design, with no grand canvas to flaunt, and Sasi wrings close to the most from it without ever tipping into a sermon on a woman's freedom. The point lands with nobody mounting a soapbox. A couple of comic detours fall flat, and nothing here will rearrange your week. But there have been enough interchangeable village dramas this year to lose count, and this one sticks, largely because it stays entertaining and trusts you to feel its weight without being told to. (more)
Source: Abhinav Subramanian, Times Of India
3.00
Swasika elevates an uneven tale of widow remarriage
Nooru Sami, director Sasi�s latest film with Vijay Antony, wants to make a case for remarriage. The story centres around the life of Selvi, who is toiling away in the fields somewhere in interior Tamil Nadu. Having lost her husband, she is left to raise two young boys (Bhaskar and Vivek) on her own. Her parents and brother are unable to pitch in, and so, Selvi has to eke a living, educate her boys and at the same time, live with the perspective with which rural society views a widow.(more)
Source: Srinivasa Ramanujam, The Hindu