The Dhanush-starrer Tamil crime thriller “Kara” is gearing up for its OTT release nearly a month after its theatrical release. Netflix has made it official that the Vignesh Raja directorial, which follows the director’s hit debut “Por Thozhil”, will release on the platform on Thursday, May 28, 2026.
The movie will premiere exclusively on Netflix in its original Tamil language, along with dubbed versions in Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada.
With a predominantly gritty tone, the film, which revolves around a survival-driven heist drama, is set against a 1990s rural backdrop. The plot follows a reformed thief who is dragged back into a world of crime after predatory banks trap his family and seize their ancestral land.
Alongside Dhanush, the movie features an ensemble cast including Mamitha Baiju, K.S. Ravikumar, and Suraj Venjaramoodu. The musical score is composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar.
In its review of the film, THE WEEK wrote that “despite aiming for a more emotional storytelling this time around, the film doesn’t quite succeed at pulling it off. Besides, the nearly three-hour runtime also begins to wear us out after a certain point. However, it gives Vignesh enough opportunities to stage some of the most elaborate and suspenseful heist sequences ever put to film. And to his credit, they are not ‘lifted’ from any Hollywood movie.”
That said, the review also added that “the film suffers a bit from presenting an all-too-familiar protagonist, someone quite similar to Dhanush from ‘Idli Kadai’ (which the actor also directed). The repetitive melodramatic beats, with the urge to accompany them with dated musical choices, occasionally weaken the film in its pre-interval portions.”
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