Jana Nayagan

Sathyan Sooryan's cinematography gives the film scale, the action choreography is effective, and Anirudh Ravichander's background score consistently enhances the viewing experience.

The film’s biggest drawback is how it props up Himmler to be this unbeatable force who can take over countries, but is, of course, weak before Vetri.

Vijay’s farewell film is in equal parts a crowd-pleasing tribute and a political manifesto, wrapped within an uneven but engaging masala entertainer

Vijay shines but the film fails to catch up.

Its director H Vinoth largely stays faithful to the script of Bhagavantha Kesari in the first half and gives us a fairly engaging commercial narrative involving Thalapathy Vetri Kondan (Vijay), a fearless former cop, and his ward, Viji (Mamitha Baiju).