 Prior to its release, the film was awarded an A certificate by the Indian Censor Board with 22 cuts, while the UAE censors objected to the film's content and asked for deletion of footage amounting to 32 minutes, not following which the film got banned.The satellite rights of the film were sold to Jaya TV

"The Hindu" wrote "Producer, writer and director S. A. Chandrasekaran returns after a hiatus, youthful in imagination and agile in execution — at times too much so [..] Chandrasekaran's yen for courtroom drama, make "Sukran" a cocktail of sorts.