Bagheera (2023 film)

Bagheera is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language romantic psychological thriller film written and directed by Adhik Ravichandran.

Inspector Sai Kumar is assigned to investigate one of Bagheera's victims, where the cops find the dead bodies turned into statues.

Bagheera receives a complaint about Ramya cheating on his boyfriend Ranjith, where he begins to make her love him and disguises himself with another name.

Bagheera brings them to a house located in Sri Lanka, where he killed those girls and made them statues.

Prabhu learns that Murali is in love with a girl and tells him to call her parents to solve the issue between the lovers.

Prabhu secretly gets a knife and kills Reshma by slashing her throat, thus avenging his friend Murali's death.

[6] The film's production was halted due to the pandemic, but it resumed after the government granted permission.

[15] Prashanth Vallavan of Cinema Express gave 2/5 stars and wrote "While there are moments in Bagheera that massively benefit from such lighthearted treatment, there are sections of the film that are too deliberately filled with logical loopholes and careless writing.

"[12] Gopinath Rajendran of The Hindu wrote "What comes as probably the only silver lining is Prabhu Deva for whom Bagheera offers ample scope to perform".

[16] Logesh Balachandran of The Times of India gave 1.5/5 stars and wrote "Bagheera might have worked if it had been released decades ago, but even then, it's absurd to propagate these kinds of ideas".