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A young man fights to overcome violence plaguing his village while striving to succeed as a professional Kabaddi player.

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Sucharita Tyagi Sucharita Tyagi (YouTube) Mari Selvaraj tries to take his film where the audience is. He wants to show people a side of life in India that moviegoers don’t usually see in flashy cinema. So he presents it in a visual language most people understand. Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Saibal Chatterjee NDTV Mari Selvaraj blends two dimensions of his film - sport and life as reflections of each other - and brings them alive in fascinating unison. Rated: 3/5 Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Bhuvanesh Chandar The Hindu It’s not every Friday that multiple genres blend this seamlessly, and Bison fuses elements of a sports drama, a biopic, a social actioner, and a gangster saga into a singular experience. Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Arjun Menon The Indian Express Bison is a quintessential Mari Selvaraj film, albeit one slightly softened for the masses. Here, the filmmaker seeks to bridge his distinct political voice with his growing interest in accessible storytelling. Rated: 3.5/5 Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Naren S Bison: Kaalamaadan is a powerful return to form—a sports-drama that uses the backdrop of kabaddi not just as show-game, but as a metaphor for struggle, survival and the raw fight for dignity.Dhruv Vikram's finest work till date.Pasupathy is a revelation and deserves a National Award for his performance. Technically, the film shines: cinematographer Ezhil Arasu K captures the landscape of the Thoothukudi belt with both beauty and grit, while music composer Nivas K. Prasanna gave a banger of an album. Bison- Kaalamaadan stakes claim as one of Mari Selvaraj's finest works till date at par with Pariyerum Perumal. Rating: 4.5/5 Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/20/25 Full Review A K This goes into my list of the greatest films I have watched in my life, there a lot of things to specifically mention and say in this movie, each and every scene was goated, Mari Selvaraj you are a gem to this Kollywood fim industry, nobody has the guts to do movies based on villagers and caste films but this man has done it again and again, whatever people may say about this movie this is the best film you have done in your career, and Dhruv my god this guy's acting was out of this world bro you have a very great potential in acting top notch, Mari Selvaraj has given 2 best beautiful messages in this movie one is that you can't judge a person without knowing their perspective which we can see clearly in the Lal's and ameers character, it was so fascinating to see how Mari handled both the characters perfectly just wow, AND ONE MORE WHICH AMAZED ME IN THIS MOVIE WAS THAT WHERVER YOU ARE, WHOEVER YOU MAY BE, IF YOU HAVE THE DETERMINATION TO GET SOMETHING AND IF YOU PUT YOUR MIND TO IT YOU WILL GET IT. This is clearly evident from dhruvs character people said he begged people and got place in the teams he played but he showed them that only by his talent he reached the top and the songs were too good hats off to the composer, If I have to talk about this film I can pick up each and every scene and talk about the fantastic work by the director and the actors. One thing which gave me a little disappointed was showing that he went into the Indian team at the start of the movie itself, the director could have not shown it so that the people watching it will be in doubt that will he go or not, because in someplaces in the film as the director showed that he is going to go to the Indian team it made me feel like he is anyways going to be alive and going to go to the Indian team so.. and this is just a small thing overall this movie was the best movie by Mari Selvaraj bro you are the best, Please Don't miss this in theatre just blindly book the tickets and feel the goosebumps in every scene of this movie. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/19/25 Full Review Stephen C Success in 2.5 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dubbed and subtitled in worldwide studios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/17/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A young man fights to overcome violence plaguing his village while striving to succeed as a professional Kabaddi player.
Director
Mari Selvaraj
Producer
Sameer Nair, Deepak Segal, Pa. Ranjith, Aditi Anand
Screenwriter
Mari Selvaraj, Karnan Helmer
Distributor
Applause Entertainment
Production Co
Applause Entertainment, Neelam Studios
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Tamil
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 17, 2025, Limited
Runtime
2h 30m