Dorothy

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Set against the backdrop of rural Tamil Nadu, Dorothy explores friendship, love, violence, caste, patriarchy, and the emotions men are taught to suppress. When Karthi and Subbu are brought back together on a road journey, buried secrets from their past begin to surface -- and Dorothy changes everything.

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Namrata Joshi

The New Indian Express

Oct 6, 2026

It’s flamboyantly mounted, has an expansive canvas with the rural Madurai landscape becoming a character itself.

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Anupama Chopra

The Hollywood Reporter India

Sep 28, 2026

Ambitious and Audacious

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Tatsam Mukherjee

The Wire (INDIA)

3 days ago

Dorothy is the work of a film-lover. That’s, perhaps, its biggest strength. But, by the end of the film, it also seems like its most glaring limitation.

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Sreeju Sudhakaran

Rediff.com

4 days ago

3/5

Dorothy is an audacious and tender exploration of masculinity and gender identity that becomes muddled just when its ideas matter most.

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Anna M.M. Vetticad

The Economic Times (India)

Oct 4, 2026

In treating a transgender person as a plot device and an element of suspense, while falling short on character development, Dorothy contributes in part to the very socio-cultural ‘othering’ that it purports to address... But it has its moments.

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Anandu Suresh

The Indian Express

Oct 3, 2026

3/5

While Dorothy is sure to irk transphobic, patriarchal, and casteist viewers, it will also frustrate LGBTQIA+ allies and intersectional feminists due to its reprehensible depictions.

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Art

Oct 7, 2026

Walked out of the theatre with a heavy heart.

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Vimoshiny Murugan

Sep 30, 2026

It was a great experience.

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Annamalai

Sep 26, 2026

Story is intense and excellent view of acceptance from the audience.. Screenplay should have been better in the second half is my opinion

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Sheeba

Sep 26, 2026

Such a beauty ♥️♥️ Best movie of 2026, must watch ♥️♥️

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arvind S

@Arvind100 5 days ago

The best thing about the theatre I went to was hearing the amount of cheering this movie received. Somewhere this neutralised all the negative talk it was getting on social media. Rishikanth, who is riding high on the success of Modha Rathri delivers yet again as Subbu's best friend, who adopts the title of 'sakth mard' & later struggles to come to terms with his friend's secret. Sananth is the beating heart of this film, his Subbu character's struggles of living a lie is accompanied with such pain and he brings that to life with such ease. His transformation requires a review of its own. The one character who truly terrified me was Muthukumar's Whistle Veeraiya. Beware his whistle & his goats 🐐🐐🐐. Dorothy is not a movie that just fits into that LGBTQIA+ tag, it is a movie that highlights the biggest (and maybe the oldest) problem with human society - gender discrimination. If a movie set in the 90s can still be this relevant, then we have not improved as a society.

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murugaraj R

@RT28143386 Oct 4, 2026

One can appreciate this movie if watched without having any preconceived idea about it. In the beginning, two young boys while watching a kissing scene in a movie, one tells the other to watch and learn so that they can kiss their wives after marriage. This will happen in the climax but not like the way they thought. (A dialogue in Karthik Subburaj's previous movie XX : what you expect to happen will happen but not like the way you thought.) That's destiny. The music of Raja has played a great role in convincing the audience to accept the end. Overall, it was a different experience watching this movie.

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Synopsis

Set against the backdrop of rural Tamil Nadu, Dorothy explores friendship, love, violence, caste, patriarchy, and the emotions men are taught to suppress. When Karthi and Subbu are brought back together on a road journey, buried secrets from their past begin to surface -- and Dorothy changes everything.

Director: Karthik Subbaraj
Producer: Jyoti Deshpande, Guneet Monga Kapoor, Achin Jain
Screenwriter: Karthik Subbaraj
Distributor: Jio Studios
Production Co: Sikhya Entertainment, Dhammam Films
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Original Language: Tamil
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 25, 2026, Limited
Runtime: 2h 26m

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