Ohm Shanthi Oshaana Malayalam Movie Review

The movie is about how Pooja (Nazriya) tries to win Giri's (Nivin Pauly) heart after the love at first sight moment.

Script & Direction - First of all, the movie is claimed to be or had the looks of a typical love story. So I went with the mindset of "Thattathin Marayathu" to sit through a candyfloss experience. Now I have to accept that it was indeed a predictable candyfloss expierence. But I enjoyed this experience more than "Thattathin Marayathu". The main reason is the presentation by the debutante Jude Anthany Joseph. I am not claiming it is extremely fresh and novel experience. But it was engaging mainly due to the feel good factor supported by the humour element. Also the film didn't come with huge expectations. Now there are moments where Jude along with his writer, Midhun Manuel Thomas (co written by Jude) which adds to the feel good factor. The irresponsible happy go lucky character of Pooja keeps this character driven movie engaging with her antics at most portions. The director further supported the film with beautiful locations of Kottayam/Idukki which added to the visuals of the film. Now the director didn't try to come up with anything revolutionary other than maintaining the feel good factor. The dialogues were witty n one of the major highlights of the movie.

But this is where the negatives commence because those who really look for serious movies with stuff may not be catered well. Also the film clearly runs out of steam towards the end and we seriously wish at a point where Jude would either surprise us or finish off the work as soon as possible. Too much sub-plots n attempts for twists made the journey towards the end dragging. Also those who follows usual rom-com stuff from Tamil/Hindi may not be exactly excited with the experience of all those seen before movie references.

Cast & Performance - Nazriya was average and this is the main issue of this film. Her character is the life of the movie and if she doesn't deliver justice to her character, it affects the movie. She looked extremely artificial with her body language during the first half to display the girlish charm. But in second half, either I compromised or she started to look tad better. But I have to accept that her narration was really good and compensated her performance to a huge extend. Nivin Pauly really didn't have much to do and his character reminded me of Prithviraj from Aiyya. Renji Panicker was surprisingly decent in his debut lengthy performance. Aju Varghese really didn't have much to do but repeat his trademark style. Can't understand why Lal Jose was chosen to do this role while Vineeth Sreenivasan was quite good in his cameo. The rest of the cast comprises of Shobha Mohan,Vijayaraghavan (unnecessary cameo), Vinayaprasad etc etc.

Songs & Background Score - "Mounam..." is my favourite song out of the lot which is a sweet melody. "Kaatumooliyo..." is a peppy number depicting the school days romance of Pooja. "Oh Saawariya.." wasn't required which added to the length of the movie and add unnecessary melodrama to a subject which wasn't required at all. The background as usual from Shaan Rahman was topnotch.

Technical Expertise - Vinodh Illampilly's work as a cinematographer was quite good. Lijo Paul could have done a better with the editing especially during the second half with his director. I loved Sameera Saneesh's work with the costumes.

Bottomline - Just a Feel Good Romantic Movie....Go with Normal/Low Expectations...You may not get disappointed.

Ratings - 6/10
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