Oy!

Starring: Siddharth, Shamili, Krishnudu, Napolean, Surekha Vani and others

Director: Anand Ranga

Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja

Release date: 03 July 3, 2009

Oy is a clean and touching teenage romantic entertainer. Siddhartha comes up with a wonderful performance and Shamili makes a good impact with her sweet innocent looks in her debut film as heroine.

Story:

Uday (Siddhartha) is the son of a rcih industrialist. He has lost his mother and his father is too busy with his business empire to spare any time for his son. Siddharth seeks solace in the company of friend and enjoys life without a care in the world.

Sandhya (Shamili) on the other hand is an exact opposite of Uday. She is simple, god fearing, hard working, meticulous, far sighted etc. etc. Uday falls in love with her at first sight. Sandhya ignore him as she finds him to be exactly opposite her in all things.

Uday them begins the game to woo her. He manages to enter Sandhya’s house as a paying guest and acts as if he is from humble origins. Uday tries really hard to impress Sandhya and when he is just about to succeed in his mission; Uday hears a very bad news.  

The bad news is that Sandhya is suffering from cancer and it is now in a very advanced stage. Uday’s uncle (Napoleon) who is a doctor asks Uday to keep her as happy as possible and fulfill her every wish. He tells Uday not to worry as she will respond to treatment.

Uday then takes Sadhya to Kasi as she wants to immerse the ashes of her parents and grandmother in Ganga. The two have a rollicking time in the one week that they spend together on the trip to Kasi.

They return home and Sadhya falls sick. She is rushed to the hospital. Will Sandhya respond to the treatment and will she survive? This is the suspense element and it should be watched on the screen. 

Performance:

Siddhartha comes up with another energetic and fulfilled performance. He is shown in a much matured way and he does full justice to his role. It is only in the emotional scenes that Siddhartha fails to impress.

Shamili makes her debut as heroine with the film. She gets to play a very subdued and girl next door character. She impresses with her performance and is here to say. The way she addresses the hero as “Oy!” is really cute.

Napolean plays the role of Siddhartha’s maternal uncle and he has a very short role. Surekha Vani looks glamorous in t-shirts and jeans. Sunil’s comedy is okay. Ali and master Bharat also try their hand at raising some laughter.

Krishnudu is supposed to play a full length comedian in the film but he disappears before the interval only to make an appearance towards the end. Krishnudu continues his innocent guy act from Vinayakudu.

Musc is good and the screenplay is interesting. The story though not very novel is however decent. The production values are also very good and the cinematography also is up to the mark.

The songs are lighthearted and keeping with the mood of the film.

On the whole ‘Oy!’ is a decent film and the first half is very lighthearted and thoroughly enjoyable. It is only in the second half that the film gets heavy with sentiment and the climax may not appeal to the youngsters.

Still Oy! is a decent film to watch.