Ashwath Marimuthu’s superbly written ‘Dragon’, starring Pradeep Ranganathan, is the most wholesome mainstream entertainer since ‘Lubber Pandhu’

This is a morality tale about the price of success, told with tons of humour and emotion. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll leave on a high. The rest of this review contains spoilers.

And the award for the most misleading trailer of 2025 goes to… DRAGON! You look at the trailer and see a girl saying bad boys are cool. You see a guy thinking it’s cool to have 48 arrears. You see this guy being cool with a cigarette, as though he’s invented a move to rival Rajinikanth’s style with cigarettes. Even when the movie begins, we seem to be in that zone. Pradeep Ranganathan and Anupama Parameswaran play Ragavan and Keerthi, two college-goers in love, and in their first scene together, she is exposing her hip to him. She wants him to see a tattoo, but he’s awestruck by that expanse of flesh. You really begin to think that writer-director Ashwath Marimuthu has become a “bad boy” like our hero. And then, he begins to systematically dismantle everything we thought this movie was going to be.

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