Film: OY
Cast: Siddardh, Shamili, and others
Dialogues: Rajasinha
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography: Vijay K Chakravarthy
Editing: Marthand K Venaktesh
Art: Rajeevan
Produced by: Danaiah DVV
Banner: Universal Media
Story, screenplay and directed by: Anand Ranga
Release Date: July 3, 2009
CBFC Rating: U
What’s it about!
Uday, a young rich kid, who believes in the adage of life is short and live it to the fullest. He falls in love with a docile girl Sandhya (Shamili) at a first sight when he catches her in writing dairy at a pub wearing chudidar. She lives alone at a beachside house, running a nursery. She is very traditional girl with her own ideals. He enters in her house as P.G to make her fall in love. On her birthday, he expresses his love and presents 12 beautiful birthday gifts. On the same day it is revealed that she is suffering from a terminal disease. The rest of the movie is how he makes her life beautiful before she dies.
Analysis
First things first,
OY is a love story with mushy scenes, mellifluous songs, great visuals, believable characters, and above all heart touching climax. It is well-made romantic drama with a tragic end. Although the film is copied from Korean film,
A Millionaire's First Love (2006), it is well structured in the first half. Only in the later part of the movie it drags on. Hero and heroine embarking on journey and the subsequent scenes are not etched very well. But the climax is makes you cry. Debutant director Anand Ranga has tried to work on the chemistry between lead pair and sentiment. If you are romantic and love sentiment, you may like this mushy movie but others it is just okay one.
Performances
Shedding the baggage of ‘family-drama’s,
Siddardh comes to romance heroine as in other love stories and as always he does it with ease. After NVNV, this is pure love story for him.
Shamili of
Anjali fame is made debut as heroine with this movie. She oozes the innocence that is required for her character and her lively nature is belieble. When you see her character, you would not think that she is not that conventially good-looking. Shamili’s performance brings beliebality to the film. She may not suit for glam roles in conventional setup but she is suited to this character. Napeolean has meaty role and he gives matured performance. Amongh others, Sunil, Surekha Vani and Krishnudu have better roles.
Strength of the movie lies in technical aspects. Cinematography by
Vijay Chakravarthy is topnotch. He has shot Vizag so beautifully by adding props in the frame. Good artwork also added to the great visuals.
Yuvan Shankar Raja’s music carries the mood of the movie - it is peppy at the same time very melodious. Editing is neat but second half should have been crispier. Production values by DVV Danayya are good.
Debutant director
Anand Ranga has shown his talent in handling the first half very well and bringing out neat performances. But he is letdown by his own writing in the second half. The entire journey of hero-heroine process lacks the punch. The tricky part is holding audience’s interest even after revealing that heroine is going to die in the end. That is the big success by director.
Bottom-line!
OY is very mushy at times but the beauty of the film lies in heart-touching moments. First half, good performances and climax are its strength, while dragging second half and dull dialogues mar the movie. On the whole it is okay.
Sourced from:
Basic plot is taken from
A Millionaire's First Love (2006) but has influences of Hollywood film
Love Story (1971)
and
Geetanjali (1989) of Telugu.
Rating: 3/5
Reviewed by
JP
