| Movie Name | LIK – Love Insurance Kompany |
| Rating | |
| Cast | Pradeep Ranganathan, S.J. Suryah, Krithi Shetty |
| Director | Vignesh Shivan |
| Produced By | Lalit Kumar |
| Release Date | 10th Apr, 2026 |
After scoring a hat-trick of successes with Love Today, Dragon and Dude, Pradeep Ranganathan has come to the audience once again with the movie LIK directed by Vignesh Shivan. The film faced several delays before finally arriving in theatres today. Here’s our LIK review.
Story
Set in 2040, the film has Surya (SJ Suryah), who starts a company called LIK (Love Insurance Kompany) with an app which analyzes relationships and tells what is real love and what is not. Dheema (Krithi Shetty) is a girl who is fully addicted to mobile phones and the LIK app, and Vasu (Pradeep Ranganathan) comes from a place where social media or mobile phones are strictly prohibited.
Vasu falls in love with Dheema at first sight, and the rest of the story is how Surya and the LIK app affect his love journey with Dheema.
Performances
Pradeep Ranganathan and SJ Suryah perform decently, and they could have done better with more effective characterization or writing. Krithi Shetty looks cute, but her character does not have much scope to perform. Seeman, Shah Ra, Gowri G Kishan, Yogi Babu, and others are alright.
LIK Review: Analysis
Director Vignesh Shivan took an interesting setup of a futuristic story set in 2040. The idea is interesting, and the satires on modern-day relationships, lifestyles, social media overuse, and dependence work well for a while in the first half. But things ended there.
To make an engaging love story, the film needed two opposite characters falling in love or getting attracted to each other. Here, the character of Vasu, played by Pradeep Ranganathan, is a regular guy who goes to any lengths to win his love. It is like a regular character without any special quality. Coming to the female lead, Dheema, played by Krithi Shetty appears as dumb and shallow rather than cute or a misguided girl who lost herself in the company of gadgets or apps.
The main villain character played by SJ Suryah appears feeble, as there is no entertainment factor, nor does it deliver any threat value to the proceedings. Because of his performance, a few fun moments work, including a dance bit near the climax, but his acting prowess is underutilized in this character.
The first half manages to produce some fun parts, and the Dheema Dheema song arrives as the best part of the film. Though nothing much happens in this phase, the interval scene raises hopes for the second half. But except for a few comedy scenes here and there, the proceedings in the latter half appear as boring or stretched.
There is an effort to bring some emotion near the climax, but even that does not work fully, as the fight starts well but gets dragged out and ends with a message.
Positives
- Main Plot
- Comedy Scenes in the First Half
- Anirudh’s Music
Negatives
- Zero Emotional Impact
- Second Half Goes Downhill
- Preachy Scenes
- Love Track Lacks the Spark
Final Verdict
Vignesh Shivan tries to present an entertaining love story in a futuristic setup with LIK, but except for some genuinely hilarious moments, Pradeep Ranganathan’s efforts, and Anirudh’s decent music, the film becomes a boring outing.