Karuppu Honest Review: Where Suriya's Hit Wins and Wobbles

Karuppu released 15 May 2026, runs 152 minutes, and is Suriya's first ₹300-crore grosser at roughly ₹304 crore worldwide.

Critics and fans broadly agree Suriya is in commanding form; the courtroom stretch is the film's strongest material.

The main complaint: the divine-fantasy turn overpowers the human story, and opinion on the second half is genuinely split.

Audiences treated it as a full mass theatrical event, with viral celebration clips from screenings.

Verdict is a clear commercial 'hit'; critically it lands as mixed-to-positive rather than a clean winner.