Gangers is a recently launched Tamil film that went on release on 24 April 2025. It is a movie written by Sundar C and Venkat Raghavan and directed by Sundar C. The film has Sundar C, Vadivelu, Catherine Tresa, Vani Bhojan and Bagavathi Perumal as the protagonists of the film with other supporting cast of the film include Hareesh Peradi and Mime Gopi. The movie is produced by Khushbu Sundar, A. C. Shanmugam, and A. C. S. Arun Kumar under the banner of Avni Cinemax and Benzz Media Private Limited and the distribution of the movie is done through Dream Big Films.
The film has cinematography, editing and the score music by E. Krishnasamy, Praveen Antony and C. Sathya respectively. This movie has a reported length of 2 hours and 30 minutes which is a usual length of a Tamil film. There are reports that the movie was estimated at Rs. 16 crore budget and the reported first day box office collection of the movie can be estimated as Rs. 58 lakhs, which is not encouraging to the profitability of the movie.
Review
Gangers is the kind of film that one would want Sundar C to produce since he is an expert in giving commercial cinema, a potboiler that is an amalgamation of action, comedy, and masala factors that are loosely woven together with energy, or lack thereof. The film relies greatly on nostalgia and cliché plotlines, yet with an interesting second half and the reappearance of the Vadivelu comic act that no one can imitate it is floating.
It begins with a school girl trying to find a lost girl (Catherine Tresa) and a teacher who is a supervisor. Enter, Saravanan (Sundar C), the undercover policeman portraying PT master in a scene, and Singaram (Vadivelu), the most bizarre PT master of the school who falls in love with the heroine. The initial half is bloated and stuffy with hoary platitudes and old-fashioned sight gags that never really get off the ground which give the proceedings an anemic quality until the anticlimax of assuring a heist way down the road.
Luckily, Gangers recovered their form after the break. A heist to steal Rs 100 crore of three wicked brothers who control the town becomes the center of the main heist. Herein the narrative and screenplay by Sundar C become tighter and more fun. In as many get-ups as he can get, and space in the traditional slapstick school, Vadivelu gives the narrative its necessary impetus. Although his comedy never goes as high as that of his days, one can find enough light-hearted moments to keep the audience entertained.
Sundar C hides behind his reliable screen character, stoic, sharp, and somewhat impersonal, and Catherine Tresa is limited to a glam part. There are two delightfully self-referencing surprises to Madha Gaja Raja and to the Sundar C old movies, which are pleasant Easter eggs to the audience. However, they might have done with a bit of more artistic engine and the emotional steering and the story would have been anything better than slightly entertaining.
Stylistically, Gangers revels in the background music that is energized and its glamorous cinematography of the same commercial atmosphere as it promotes. The editing was an area where the edits might have been more precise especially in the first half which was too long. There is the dated humor and clumsy way of how some characters, especially those related to gender relations are treated which can be noticed in the modern cinema scene.
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Ultimately, Gangers is good as dumb, bare-boned fun. It is anarchy, noisy, as original as fried chicken, but to Sundar C adherents and those who feel hungry enough to see Vadivelu back on screen, it is full of laughs and larks to be worth a relaxing viewing.
Cast
In Gangers, Sundar C keeps it simple with duplicate Saravanan IPS where his poker-faced character impresses very well. His character is not new, but Sundar C does it with a certain sort of a casual flair, and he is very good at his action scenes and heist orchestrating scenes. His reserved performance is an ideal complement to the attitude of the movie of craziness without the sense of being too dominant.
Vadivelu as PT master Singaram has done all the comic relief in the movie, the backbone of the movie. Vadivelu, after a long time in the sidelines, comes back to mainstream and capitalizes on his old comic timing, body language and exaggerated expressions. Despite some amateurish comic situations, he does bring out robust laughs, particularly in the disguises and confusion of the heist.
The dignified touch is given by Catherine Tresa who plays Sujitha, the no-nonsense, true-to-herself teacher who loves her students and whose love motivates the plot. Her character clumsyly explores the glam area and Catherine plays her role quite well and performs her part with enthusiasm and sincerity.
Vani Bhojan as Madhavi performs more based performance, yet with a lesser scope. She is the Heart of the narrative, and even equalizes the male-dominated narrative. The fearful village boss Malaiyarasan, played by Mime Gopi, stands his ground, but the character development would have been more subtle. Hareesh Peradi and Bagavathi Perumal are the supporters as well as members of the opposite camp and create a conflict level in the story.
Munishkanth, Redin Kingsley, Deepa Shankar, even Ilavarasu and Singampoli all play in the anarchic comedy (and the multiple subplots of the gay couple, the old typist seeking nookie, etc) all running parallel to the central heist narrative. Special mention to the cameo that Vimal gives as the Original Saravanan IPS. It is a nice inclusive, though a short one, that brings about the larger Sundar C universe and provides an added element to those that are listening.
Overall, Gangers is the movie that works on the power of the cast, but the screenplay suffers in certain areas with nice performances by Sundar C, Vadivelu, and the comic support cast.
Songs
The Gangers soundtrack contains only two songs, which give the masala-coated script even the verve and the style. The first song “Kuppan” composed by Pa. Vijay and sung by Meenakshi Elayaraja and Gunasundari is a folk-flavored dance song. The song was published on 11 April 2025 on Saregama Tamil and it became viral on the Internet, where it was viewed 3.5 million times. With the 4 minutes and 11 seconds length, the song features the high-octane visual, featuring actress Catherine Tresa, which the audience found to be a huge hit track due to its most peppy beats and the colourful dance routine. It is a typical throwback to a glam song of Sundar C in his earlier film, “Oru Kuchi Oru Kulfi” that was a glam song as well.
The second and final track is a melodious tune, which is the song En Vanmathiye, a song written by Lavarathan and well sang by Madhushree and Aswath Ajith. It was published on April 21, 2025, and has already received over 1.2 million views and is three minutes and thirty-nine seconds long. It gives the romance within the madness of the heist that is so prevalent in the movie. With a total of 7 minutes and 50 seconds these two songs combine to add a taste of the musical elements to an otherwise high-paced slapstick action film. They are not numerous, but the songs perform miracles to the enhance the commercial potential and emotional appeals of the movie.
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Critical Reviews
T Maruthi Acharya of India Today gave the movie two and a half stars out of five stars and observed Gangers resembles Sundar C still adhering to the same formula, and that he had attempted so much to please everybody that he never came up with anything new. It begins with the first half being trite and slapdash and relying excessively on the aged comedy of Vadivelu. The movie does not have a rhythm until the second part, when the robbery begins. Eventually, it is full of cliches, and it lacks any actual emotion, and novelty.
Latha Srinivasan of the Hindustan Times, gave the film two stars out of five and said that Gangers appeared to start off as a vigilante movie with a bit of comedy and it took too long to allow the relationship to be established. The second half is faster as the [?]100 crore heist becomes more pleasant. Vadivelu offers a bit of laughter, but most of the jokes are of an outdated nature. An entertainer of Sundar C-type, not much more than a light laugh, but a decent timepass.
Anusha Sundar of OTTplay gave the film two and a half out of five stars and wrote that the film is a rattletrap conglomeration of comedy and heist, the prototypical Sundar C type, haphazard, and fun. The initial half is plodding, although in the second half it is better rhythmically endowed. Vadivelu returns but this time in glimpses of his previous personality and some of their jokes are outdated. It is bad, and yet it is kindly good-natured when you do not reflect too much on it.
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From The Times of India, M Suganth gave the film two and a half stars out of five stars and said that Gangers acted like a commercial potboiler in the first half and was not able to perform the laughs expected. It does not find its footing until slightly past the midway point, when the heist begins, the movie gets some laughs. Sundar C and Vadivelu have traces of ancient magic, but the arrangement is too long and solemn. Something bolder and smarter would have been much more welcome.
Audiences Reviews
The movie of the Gangers received good reviews among the audience members and at present 748 individuals, evaluated the film as 5.8 stars of 10 stars on IMDb, which is very low to consider the extensive opinions. When I checked a few of the user reviews, I found that even the majority of the people enjoyed Gangers as a light comedic relief in the modern world of the dark movies being overtly violent! Loved by many of bringing back the golden era of Tamil old masala entertainment and the comeback of Vadivelu in overwhelming numbers. Vadivelu was at his old self, and Sundar C had a good lead too, but what also favoured the audience was the pleasant procession of supporting actors.
Other users reported that Gangers is not going to leave anyone impressed by its exciting surprises or logic that cannot be refuted, yet it might offer people certain kind of low-level fun with no complexities. The first half was average according to most people, but they all agreed that the latter half was more fast and there was more laughter, heist excitement and fun, chaotic scenes. To those who were fond of Sundar C previous films, the film had the typical Sundar C elements, humor, action, flashbacks, catchy songs, and a noisy climax.
It did have a certain criticism. Other users believed that the villains were depicted as being too dumb and weak and did not present any kind of threat. Others said that, although Vadivelu introduced some laughs, modern characters of comedy, such as Senthil, Vivek, or Goundamani, are not being made and the comedy is at times a bit old fashioned.
But these were largely small scratches and, on the whole, the mood of users was favorable. They had described Gangers as a “Roller coaster ride” and had also referred to it as a good timepass entertainer in summer. Song sequences of Catherine Tresa also was quite popular. Others had to say that not all of the jokes were politically correct to everyone but emphasized that when people can push aside and relax and watch it, not think too hard the film is a good one. Others even told that it is worth watching again.
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To be more precise, most of the audience agreed that Gangers is a hilarious, weighty and nostalgic film which is to be watched without reason and with the purpose to watch something light and cheerful.
How to Watch the Gangers Movie
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