R. P. R. of Kalki wrote Even though the story is familiar till the first half, the director hides the boredom with a comedy thread, but in later half he shouldn't have messed up with unnecessary fights, Bombay villain gangs and godown climax but called Ilayaraja's music as only relief and concluded except for the title and the song in the beginning there is anything special about religious unity in the film, it could have been even titled as Kuppusamy Munusamy. Namma Ooru Velan wrote for Indolink, "Having started out quite interestingly, Balu just didn't manage to keep up with the tempo, and just plots along [..] Raman Abdullah ends up as a movie among the hundreds of masalas Madras churns out every year. There is the usual dosage of love songs, fight sequences good-hero, best-friend, nasty-villain trio, and the grand finale — when after a huge fight, everything is sorted out. Come to think of it, it's not even a good masala [..] as the story-telling is tedious and the movie, slow-moving. Definitely not one of Balu's better movies", however he called Ilaiyaraaja's music "the high point of the movie and saves it from utter disgrace". The film was a commercial failure.
