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Pagal Kanavu

2025 Indian film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ136908284 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pagal Kanavu (transl. Daydream) is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language horror film written, directed, and produced by Faisal Raj under the banner Jasmine Films International. The film features Faisal Raj, Athira Santhosh, Karate Raja, Cool Suresh, Shakeela, and Vimal Raj in prominent roles.

Cast

Faisal Raj

Athira Santhosh

Karate Raja

Cool Suresh

Shakeela

Vimal Raj

Production

The film written, directed, and produced by Faisal Raj under the banner Jasmine Films International. The cinematography is handled by Joy Antony, editing by Krishnajith, and music composed by Suresh Nandan.

Reception

Maalai Malar critic stated that " Faisalraj, who plays the lead role, has directed the film.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Pagal, Kanavu and Indian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2025 Indian film” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q136908284. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pagal Kanavu” 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.