Oye Telugu Movie
Release Date: 03 Jul 2009
Genre: Drama
Language: Telugu
Director: Anand
Producer: D.V.V.Danaiah
Music Director: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cast:
Siddharth Narayan
Shamili
Napoleon
Reviews
Oye is a romantic - comedy based movie in which, Siddhartha is playing a college boy who falls in love with Shamili. The story moves around how both reunite by fighting with the old traditions of the world.‘Oye’ starring Siddharth and Shamili is getting ready to hit screens this summer. Anand, an associate of Bhaskar in ‘Bommarillu’ and of few Bollywood projects, debuts as a director with ‘Oye’. The studious child who played in ‘Anjali’ won several accolades and awards for her performance, Shamili debuts as a heroine. DVV Danayya produces the film on Universal Media banner.
Based on one more love story, the film is the romantic love that blossoms between the youngsters and how they get together in the end past all hurdles. Siddharth is on track with a list of youthful love subjects with ‘Nuvvostanante Nenodantana’, ‘Bommarillu’ with ‘Konchem Istam Konchem Kastam’ being the latest. Shamili bagged the National Award for the Best Child Artist in ‘Anjali’ and audiences are yet to see her performance as a heroine.
The film which has completed about forty percent of the talkie portions will get released this summer 2009.OY is a love story with mushy scenes, melodious songs, great visuals, believable characters, and above all heart touching climax. It is touching 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.
Performance of Siddharth and Samili is good, but the strength of the movie lies in technical aspects. Vijay Chakravarthy did a commendable job as Cinematography.
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.Uday (Siddharth) is a cool dude kinda guy with a fat friend Krishnudu (the lead of the sweet film Vinayakudu). For Uday, life is short, rich, and needs to be enjoyed with a party. Wow! such a different characterization for a hero given our Telugu movie standards (sarcasm, by the way). The girl, Sandhya (Shyamili) is the exact opposie with simple tastes, big values, and full of discipline. On a new year eve bash at a pub to which Sandhya is forced to come by her friend who is a mother of three kids, she bumbs in to Uday who is all keen to flirt with her. However, Sandhya gives him her deal of life and the next day when our hero Uday’s father dies with googles and white dress standing near to his father’s body, he decides that he loves Sandhya and wants to pursue her. From this point on till the interval Uday is trying to get friendly with Sandhya by living as her paying guest upstairs and concealing from her his true ultra-rich identity (yes, like Ghajini). Fortunately for the audience this part of the film, although without much characters, is quite funny and provides some decent time pass. There is also a forced and unrelated comedy track of Sunil as an insurance agent. Just before the interval, in her master health check up Sandhya is diagnosed with cancer. For some strange reason the director does not want the heroine to know this.
The second half is all about fulfilling Sandhya’s wishlist, which include a trip a Kasi and also watching the first day first show of Pawan Kalyan, the Power Star, film (the theater erupted in screams upon hearing this reference). The first day scenes in Kolkata for Power Star Pawan Kalyan’s Annavaram film will be a treat for Mega-Power fans! Uday convinces Sandhya to reveal her wishlist by giving a dumb reason that both will die in a week. Thus, they go by ship to Kolkatta and from there to Kasi and back to Hyderabad in a helicopter. Some comedy thrown in here and there. Finally, towards the end Sandhya finds out about her illness. Thankfully, the ending is well shown: they show both together sitting on a bench and the next shot in the next year they show only Uday. The director tried to do a modern Gitanjaali, but the attempt simply falls flat on it’s face. Nothing is in order in the film: the story, characters, or the characterizations. The director, Anand Ranga, needs to know that he cannot just get away by such cheap senti-stunts of showing the heroine with cancer and say that a few of the audience cried so it is sentimental. Much has changed in the field of Caner since the days Prakash and Geethanjali were diagnosed with cancer in 1989 in the classic Geethanjali. There is no need for not telling the patient about the illness, there is advanced medicine now. The saddest part of the film is that it has been so badly developed that you just don’t feel the sadness Uday is feeling and in fact you can hear the audience heckling and predicting.
There is nothing in wrong in making a film about a serious medical condition, but the film must have it’s heart at theoy2 right place. Unfortunately, Oye cannot handle the sentiment it wants to potray because it’s story is just that much under developed. My next question: where are the characters? You need characters to make a memorable film. Coming to the performances, Siddharth is his usual self with nothing new to offer except that we know he loves Ray Ban glasses. It’s possible you might think he plays a blind man in his film because on every poster he has black glasses, but he not playing such a role. His face looks too thin and haggard at times. Five out of six who went for this film didn’t like the heroine, Shyamili, but I really liked her. She reminds us of the Jhyandala movie-type heronies: being simple is being beautiful. After I don’t know how long I get to see a heroine in a film who is fully clothed, looks decent, pretty, simple and someone you can relate to. She acts well too, but how I wish she got a better story. The songs are really good with the first two being the highlight: Seheri and Oye…first love. Seheri…simply rocked when I saw it in full dts blast at Sudarshan 70mm.
Hardcore Siddharth fans can watch this film because at least the songs are enjoyable. I was really hoping Siddharth would give something different to Telugu audience, but he offers the same old stuff badly packaged. For those who want some entertainment will be in for a dissapointment. Yes, the songs are the only saving grace.
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