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Telugu Movie review - Oy!

Credits
Jeevi rating: 3/5Punchline: Tragic 'love story'Genre: RomanceType: StraightBanner: Universal Media
Cast: Siddharth, Shamili, Krishnudu, Napoleon, Ali, Master Bharat, Tanikella Bharani, Pradeep Rawat, Surekha Vani
Music: Yuvan Shankar RajaDialogues: RajasimhaCinematography: Vijay K ChakravarthyEditing: Marthand K VenkateshArt: RajeevanStory - screenplay - direction: Anand RangaProducer: DVV DanayyaRelease date: 3 July 2009

Review
StoryUday (Siddharth) is a rich and spoilt brat who believes in short term pleasures. Sandhya (Shamili) is a loner who lives on her own. She is a responsible girl with long term plans and strict principles. Uday falls in love with Sandhya at the very first sight. And she joins her place as a paying guest. When everything is going well, Uday comes to know that Sandhya is suffering from cancer and her days are numbered. But Sandhya is not aware of it. The rest of the story is all about how Uday makes Sandhya realise all her unfulfilled wishes.
Artists Performance
Siddharth is excellent as Uday. His costumes and goggles are very nice. He made sure that he wore goggles for 80% of his screen appearance (including songs). His dances in songs are energetic. Shamili is pretty good with acting, though her looks are strictly average. They should have managed the dark circles around eyes with good make-up. It may be a sheer coincidence for Shamili to again act as a patient in her debut film as a heroine. She had earlier donned the role of a mentally challenged, ill girl when she was just three years old in Maniratnam's blockbuster Anjali and won the national award. Krishnudu is good. Sunil is not good in first half, but is nice in the second half. One doesn’t understand why they cast Napoleon for that role. Pradeep Rawat did his Chatrapati role in this movie. Surekha Vani got a nice role in this movie. Radha Kumari is hilarious in an episode with Ravi Kondala Rao. The comedy involving Ali and Master Bharat is completely irritating.
Technical departments
Story: We should appreciate Anand Ranga to letting out the references for this movie right in the beginning. This film is inspired by Erich Segal’s novel ‘Love Story’ which was made into a classic ‘Love Story’ (Jeevi Review). Johnny by Pawan Kalyan is also inspired by the same movie. However, there is no father/son conflict in this movie. We have another film titled ‘Amruta Varshini’ (Telugu dubbed version of Kannada blockbuster Amruthadhare) that speaks about husband fulfilling the wishes of wife before she dies. Films like Bucket List (jeevi review) and Sweet November also sports the similar themes.
Screenplay - direction: The first half of the movie is dedicated for introducing the characteristics of the two main leads and the way they fall in love. The illness of heroine is revealed to hero much before the interval. The entire second half is dedicated to the boy fulfilling the wishes of the girl. The director succeeded in establishing the characters well and knit a proper and sensible love between them. He could deal with sensible humour well. But he fails when it comes to the comedy meant for front benchers (Sunil, Ali and Bharat). Screenplay of the movie is adequate. A film of this type works only if the tragic part of the movie is narrated in a heart-touching way. But you don’t feel for the characters by the time movie ends. Director could have made to genuinely heart touching with a better handling of second half. However, there are three things i liked in this movie
1. The 12th birthday gift (girl’s version and boy’s version) 2. Getting the Pradeep Rawat’s character out of Chatrapati film to continue it in this movie. It is very creative and of Woody Allen style. 3. Radha Kumari and Ravi Kondala Rao’s train episode.
Other departments: Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja is superb. The picturization of songs is also good. Cinematography by Vijay Chakravarthy is another asset. Locations are very good. The vast geographies of Bihar, Kolkota are Varanasi are explored well. The house set erected in Rushi Valley, Vizag is of class taste. The color grading and postproduction activities are done with proper care. Editing is fine. Dialogues are neat. Production values by Universal Media are grand.
Analysis: First half of the movie is decent. Second half is lengthy and is dragging at times. The climax is predictable and is not heart-touching. The plus points of the movie are Siddharth, music and cinematography. One should have guts to make such a film in Telugu where heroine dies at the end. These kinds of endings carry enormous risk quotient. I wish that the director could’ve made the climax in more effective way. We have to wait and see how it performs at box office.


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ilm: OYCast: Siddardh, Shamili, and othersDialogues: RajasinhaMusic: Yuvan Shankar RajaCinematography: Vijay K ChakravarthyEditing: Marthand K VenakteshArt: RajeevanProduced by: Danaiah DVVBanner: Universal MediaStory, screenplay and directed by: Anand RangaRelease Date: July 3, 2009CBFC Rating: UWhat’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, Siddardhcomes 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.
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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

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Oy Review - Good Concept, Lackluster Treatment
July 04, 2009 Anjali
Rating - **.75

Cast : Siddharth, Shamili, Napolean, Suneel, Ali, Pradeep Rawat, MS Narayana, Tanikella Bharani, Krishnudu, Surekhavani, Master Bharat and others.Banner: Universal Media.Cinematography: Vijay K. Chakravarthy.Dialogues: T. Rajasimha.Editing: Marthand K. Venkatesh.Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja.Producer: Danayya DVV.Story, Screenplay and Director: Anand Ranga.Release Date: July 03, 2009.The concept is good. A serious-minded orphaned girl, who always thinks long-term, wears specs to keep out dust, runs a nursery at her beach-house and is writing her dairy on New Year's eve sitting in a pub which she graces because of her friend's insistence. A fun loving happy-go-lucky rich kid who lives for the moment and spots her in a chudidar writing in the pub and falls for her..really, the concept is workable. And you almost expect her to get a terminal illness (cancer, what else?) and live life to the fullest, in one week. See the contradiction in characters, the idea of forever and now and the irony of their respective fates? And names-Sandhya (sunset) and Uday (sunrise).It could have worked. Beautifully. But it doesn't, because of the flawed writing/direction/editing. The writing-at key moments, the screenplay falls flat. Example: the title is 'His first love called him..Oy'. Cool. But she calls him Oy for the first time, and asks for napkins. Aww come on! Napkins?? When she decides to go to Kasi with him, she lets her hair down and suddenly has a good time and there is no real explanation for that change. You keep thinking, maybe she knows of her illness. But it isn't so, because she learns of it later, and even that key moment just is written without leaving an impact.There could have been so many touching, subtle moments with the same idea but neah, it just doesn't go to that level. Some comedy, some crying, some 'fun' and a whole lot of gags in the second half, but it never takes off from there. It's just gliding along at one level.Both the protagonists are well-written characters, but the movie is not entirely well-executed. Suneel and his life insurance comedy track, his Chatrapati ringtone and the introduction of Pradeep Rawat as Chatrapati movie's villain Ras Bihari (this time in a comic role) and the gags that surround that whole track is..okay. Makes you grin a bit.Siddharth as Uday does a good job and is pretty convincing. And he brings the intensity in the second half-if only the treatment was as consistent as his performance. Shamili as Sandhya doesn't exactly show the spark that she displayed as a 3-year old so just view her a newcomer; she picks up where she left off not from her brilliant portrayal as a spastic child in Mani Ratnam's Anjali, but from her sidey role as the third sister in Kandukondein Kandukondein (Priyuralu Pilichindi). It will take a couple more movies to really judge her as a performer.The music is an asset to the movie, and Yuvan Shankar Raja's compositions really hit the right note. The background score is fine and Vijay K. Chakravarthy's cinematography is top notch.The editing lacks finesse, and with scenes ending abruptly the dubbing also is not perfect. The movie does have some entertainment value in the first half, especially when Uday lies to Sandhya about his background and ends up as her paying guest. The second half with the whole Kasi trip should have been entertaining, but simply doesn't work magic. It's just okay, and nothing beyond that although a few gags are funny. The sensitivity and the fragility of their relationship is not captured, which is the real minus of the movie along with lackluster treatment.Overall, it could have been an interesting movie but never really takes off. Not bad (and good music), but that's about it
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Oy' Review: Not Up To The Mark
Film: OyBanner: Universal MediaRating: 2.5/5Cast: Siddartha, Shamili, Surekha Vani, Napolean, Sunil, PradeepRawat, Tanikella Bharani etcMusic: Yuvan Shankar RajaEditing: Marthand K VenkateshDirector: Anand RangaProducer: DVV DanayyaReleased On: 3rd July 2009
The much awaited debut of Baby Shamili as heroine has arrived today. The film will be remembered only as ‘heroine debut of Shamili’. Let us see how far that appealed for audiences.
Story:Uday (Siddartha) is the son of a big business magnate and Sandhya (Shamili) is a simple girl who is religious, disciplined and perfectionist. Like their names, their attitudes are on two extremes- like dawn and dusk. But Uday falls in attraction with Sandhya. He tries to pull her towards him. But all his habits and interests are away from her. He strives hard to impress her by enacting as if his tastes suit that of hers. And slowly Sandhya inclines towards Uday.
But a startling fact comes out. What’s that fact? How that influences the love of Uday and Sandhya? That forms rest of the story.
Performances:Hero-Siddartha:His energy levels are shown in first half and he is all pervasive. But his character goes sidelined in second half without his mark. On a whole, as a performer he proved once again. He is impressive all the way.
Heroine- Shamili:Baby Shamili has now turned heroine. Proper costumes and make up are not given for her and hence she looked like a side artiste than a heroine. Although the attempt to show her as ‘girl next door’ is appreciated, little care would have taken in her appearance. And she is too heavy to her age. She needs to cut down weight to look better and have future in film industry.
Others:Surekha Vani looked glamorous enough with slim personality and neat gait. Tanikella appears for sometime as ‘Telugu Pundit’ throwing some comedy. Sunil’s comedy episode is good in first half but goes eccentric in second half.
Music and Lyrics:They are good. Yuvan has given the best of tunes and the lyrics are also rightly grooved in the tracks with new sense of poetry. The song ‘176 beach houselo….’ is impressive and catchy. And the expressions like ‘kannu veedi choopu poyenaa…’ are interesting and marvelous.
Technical Departments:Cinematography is good. Editing is up to the mark. Dialogues are also up to the requirement. Direction has suffered ups and downs and the production values deserve a very good mention.
Crowd Pulling Aspects:Baby Shamili (as it’s her debut as heroine)Music (lyrically also good)Siddhartha
Disappointments:Shamili has no grace or glamour that’s required for the heroines of this era Second half killed the momentum with ‘extras’ Lack of grip on characters and characterization
Highlights:CinematographyMusicSubtle comedy in first half
Analysis:The movie promises very big with the conclusion of first half. But the expectations fall down mercilessly. Audiences find it difficult to sit on seats when the second half starts. The characterization of heroine goes berserk with second half. How can she ask for a cigarette when she was projected as idealistic lady in first half? How can she comment on mangalasootram and mattelu of married women to a pet dog’s belt when she was shown as a pious religious lady in first half?
Connectionless scenes, eerie characters come on to screen to kill time but they killed the interest levels of audiences. The journey from Vizag to Kaashi via Kolkata on ship, on road to some extent …blah ..blah is the way chosen by director to kill time and narrate how the hero can make his heroine happier by fulfilling all her fantasies and desires. He has gone to certain unwanted extensions by showing ‘Annavaram’ movie in a Kolkata theatre with huge hoopla by fans!!! The director might have expected some patronage from the fans of that matinee icon, Pawan Kalyan. All is ok till then. But he has overlooked the vehicle of ‘Hyderabad City Police’ moving fast in Kolkata!!!
While first half resembles a kind of ‘Chukkallo Chandrudu’, the second half recalls something on the lines of ‘Jab We Met’ and ‘Geetanjali’. This mixed concoction leaves no pleasant freshness in the film.
Choice of the subject is not bad but the implementation part is mishandled. Director failed to maintain momentum in narration. He has shown his slapdash execution in second half.
On a whole, the movie cannot please all sets of audiences. High expectations on this movie would certainly disappoint.
Bottom Line: Watch it if you have no other choice


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