Rudhran is a good vengeance action film with some fine stunt work and tough themes that would have worked if it had been released a few decades earlier. It's actually unbelievable that we have a movie that does what hundreds of movies have done for aeons now in today's Tamil cinema, where getting even for the death of every relative out there has been done and dusted, and at a time when John Wick is killing a town's worth of people avenging the murder of his dog. It is true that the cause of the deaths that our hero must avenge is original, but the question of whether that little innovation merits a movie is one that the movie attempts to answer positively but falls short of.

 However, who is Rudhran? Why is he picking on Bhoomi's (Sarathkumar) men? Why is he fleeing? Why would he nearly kill a man who only arrives at the house to deliver water cans? The "Jorthaale" dance sequence appears in the movie while we anxiously await the answers. The solutions do appear in the second half of the movie, at around the time the movie makes you feel like you've been in a duel with Rudhran. The first half of the film follows a non-linear plot and simultaneously bombards us with flashes of needless sentiment in the form of flashback scenes and physics-defying action from the present. Rudhran is shown to be the adorable child of a contented couple (played by Poornima Bhagyaraj and Nassar), and the two of them together, They are a family straight out of a Vikraman movie, brought to life. Rudhran eventually falls in love and marries Ananya (Priya Bhavani Shankar) thanks to fate and a cleverly structured storyline. It's obviously too good to be true, and how can a family be joyful when it isn't the final frame of the movie? Rudhran loses everything as a result of a minor quarrel, and I'm not exaggerating when I say this.

Although Sarathkumar, an experienced actor, plays the adversary, the writing of the character is lacklustre, which is my greatest complaint about Rudhran. The last time he worked with Lawrence, we got Muni 2: Kanchana, which, despite not receiving any kind of critical acclaim, was a big hit and gave the Muni franchise new life as the Kanchana series. But in this case, Sarath is only allowed to play a one-dimensional figure who, with his sharp clothes and Rolls-Royce, looks like he just stepped off the sets of Varisu. He spends the whole first half visiting the locations that Rudhran converted become crime scenes in an effort to respond to the mayhem our hero has caused. Rudhran is actually just another Kanchana movie with ghosts added Then there's the effervescent hero, a content family, a ruthless antagonist, a showdown at a temple, and a message about people who are taken advantage of by society.