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Dexter (film)

2025 Indian film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ133449011 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dexter is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language suspense thriller film directed by Suriyan G. The film stars Rajeev Govinda Pillai and Abishek Joseph George in the lead roles, alongside Yukta Pervi, Sithara Vijayan and Hareesh Peradi. The film was produced by Prakash SV under the banner of Ram Entertainers.

Dexter was released in theatres on 14 March 2025.

Cast

Rajeev Pillai

Abishek Joseph George

Yukta Pervi

Sithara Vijayan

Hareesh Peradi

Shobha Priya

Ashraff Gurukkul

Janvi Muralidharan

Fehmin Femi

Production

The film was directed by Suriyan G. Cinematography was by Aathitya Govindraj, while editing was handled by Srinivas P. Babu. Srinath Vijay composed the soundtrack of the film.

Reception

Dinakaran critic stated that "Aditya Govindaraj's different camera angles have traveled in line with the psycho crime suspense thriller.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dexter (film)” is 2025 Indian film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dexter, film and Indian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2025-03-14. For this dossier, Dexter, film and Indian is the immediate research focus.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q133449011. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dexter (film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.