Coolie (2025) Movie Review: Rajinikanth’s Style Outshines the Story
Coolie promised style, action, and Rajinikanth’s mass presence, but did it deliver on substance? Here’s my full review on whether Lokesh Kanagaraj’s film lives up to the hype.

USSR. Cold War. Early 1960s. In a secret research institute where Kurchatov (a famous scientist, the father of the Soviet atomic bomb) works, radiation counters stop registering the background radiation. First one meter fails, then another, until absolutely everything in the whole building fails. Kurchatov begins to suspect that this is a conspiracy of Western spies.
Coolie promised style, action, and Rajinikanth’s mass presence, but did it deliver on substance? Here’s my full review on whether Lokesh Kanagaraj’s film lives up to the hype.
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For one widowed father and his five kids, an extraordinary gift will change their lives forever.
This short film was an overall creative success.