Buffoon is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language crime film written and directed by Ashok Veerappan, in his directorial debut. Be The film stars Vaibhav, Anagha, Adukalam Naren. The film has songs and score composed by Santhosh Narayanan. The cinematography and editing were handled by Dinesh Purushothaman and Vetre Krishnan, respectively. It was produced by Karthik Subbaraj, Kaarthekeyen Santhanam, Sudhan Sundaram and Jayaram under, Stone Bench Films and Passion Studios.^[1] The film was released theatrically on 23 September 2022.

Two street theatre performers (koothu artists) become pawns in a political power game and are falsely implicated in a drug smuggling case.

The music was composed by Santhosh Narayanan. The audio rights were acquired by Maajja.^[2][3][4]

M. Suganth of The Times of India who gave 3 stars out of 5 stars after reviewing the film stated that,"Santhosh Narayanan adds to the tense nature of the scenes with his score".^[8] Avinash Ravichandran of Cinema Express who gave 2.5 stars out of 5 stars after reviewing the film stated that "Although Buffoon definitely has a lot of heart and even more potential, there is only so much that intent can do when it has to contend with lackadaisical execution bogged further down by nonchalant writing".^[9] Bharath Vijayakumar of Moviecrow rated the film 2.75 out of 5 and stated that "For now, Buffoon is a film that remains watchable".^[10] Harshini S V of Film Companion wrote that "Buffoon is not tempted to take the predictable route and does justice to its story with a convincing climax.^[11]