 IANS gave 3.5 stars out of 5 and wrote, "Despite some tonal and length issues, Gautham impresses mostly in "Yennai Arindhaal", and gives this tale of a police officer a much need emotional tug".Karthik Subramanian of "The Hindu" wrote, "Performances lift an otherwise predicatable fare from Gautam Vasudev Menon".Another reviewer from The Hindu, Sudhir Srinivasan, wrote, "A rushed climax, a problematic organ trafficking angle, a repeated plot device, a predictable ending… and yet "Yennai Arindhaal" comes as a breath of fresh air...There's just that one melisaana kodu (thin line) that stops it from being terrific".