Anusha Sundar of OTTPlay gave 1.5/5 stars and wrote "Tharunam wants to become a genre-shifting film which makes you can get invested in romance from the very first half, as well as a thriller of sorts in the 2nd. But hardly may be the Kishen Das and Smruthi Venkat-starrer able to make it happen. With its shallow producing and far from truth storyte