On Anirudh's work in the film, Sivakarthikeyan wrote, "And my dearmost Rockstar, my Nanban Anirudh. I'm proud maxxxxx! You've become truly incomparable, creating your own thrown and ruling it from style! Love you loads!"

DC is an adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Devadas. CE's review of the film reads, "Be it Rocky, Saani Kaayidham, Captain Miller, or DC, director Arun Matheswaran is clear about the stories he wants to tell. These are not stories of the people Tamil cinema always loves to tell. These people are, let’s call them, Arun Matheswaran’s Irregulars. They are the people whose lives are forever on the fringe. People whose lives are never important enough for the majority. However, these stories didn’t always translate into convincing cinema since the sum of the parts didn’t do much for the whole. But the fourth time is the charm for Arun, and almost everything fell into place in DC, and it all started when he signed this one person called Anirudh Ravichander."

A screenshot of Sivakarthikeyan's Instagram story praising DC