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Oram Po – A fun filled auto ride!
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Behindwoods
Movie Review Board |
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Oram
Po
Cast
: Arya, Pooja
Direction: Pushkar Gayathri
Music: G V Prakash
Production: V Palanivel, A C Anandan |
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A
new effort nonetheless, Oram Po is part satire, part spoof
and full entertainment set in the milieu of auto drivers’
lives. It is a two-hour auto rickshaw ride with all its bumps
and swerves and unexpected curves. The movie has only a wafer
thin story line but what lies between the wafers makes for
all the entertainment. |
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Arya
plays Chandru, an auto racing freak, who whiles away
his time at Bigle's shed, much to the ire of his sister
played by Ashwini; Lal plays Bigle. They are friends
who race together and Jagan who plays Supply is also
a part of the gang. They meet up at Bigle's garage
as he’s considered the master mechanic when
it comes to tuning autos for races. When everything
seems picture perfect, a gang, smuggling stones, precious
ones, accidentally place them in Arya's auto in a
hurry as they escape from the cops. The story takes
off from there and the rest of it is all about the
gang tracing the stones using the guy who last saw
the auto - another leading auto racer Pitchai who
calls himself Son of Gun, played by John Vijay - the
show stealer. How the villains trace the auto where
they left the stones and how Arya, who seldom pays
the dues for his auto, gets even with his financier
forms the story. Ultimately it isn't the story that
is interesting but the flow of events that happen
matter-of-factly.
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A
series of interesting events and auto races with the
search for the stones leading to an unexpected light
hearted climax makes for 130 minutes of fun, to put
it colloquially it is a 2 hour Lollu Sabha. Now for
the flip side, there is something missing, guess it
isn’t engaging throughout, but the director
duo of Pushkar and Gayatri have intelligently punctuated
those scenes with songs that come in for applause
for its humor both in choreography and lyrics.
Arya is at ease playing Chandru, his chemistry with
Pooja in the romantic scenes brings the screen alive,
and Pooja, sans makeup, still manages to steal hearts.
She plays Rani, daughter of a biriyani vendor, who
moves into the locality Chandru lives and it was love
at first sight. Pooja’s brilliant expressions
are a delight to watch.
Lal plays a different character from the usual Villain
roles that he is often seen in and excels in it. But
wait before you come to any conclusion, the film truly
belongs to John Vijay who is a revelation
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He adds punch to Kumar Rajan's words. John Vijay's antics bring
the house down. A special mention for Kumar Rajan's dialogs,
he has worked really hard to get the lingo of the auto drivers
right, of course that brings in a lot of profanity, but he carries
it off with so much ease many would seldom flinch at his lines.
G.V. Prakash Kumar’s score has proved yet again that his
success is no flash in the pan and that he is going to be the
one to look forward to in the future. The songs are fresh and
have enough variety so does the background score which has a
Spanish flavor brought in by the use of acoustic guitar. Nirav
Shah captures the happenings as honestly as a TV news coverage
and the locales are very well chosen. Chandru's auto with a
sunroof shows the detailing that has gone into making every
small object in the frame.
It is a delight to see such a fun filled film made honestly,
it does have it's flaws but hey! You wouldn’t go to the
halls expecting pure cinema from a movie titled ‘Oram
Po’. Would you?
Warning: Your girl friend might not digest the profanity all
that easily, though it plays safe by not sounding vulgar. Or
how else can one explain it being spared by the censors.
Verdict: A movie aimed at the youth that almost
hits the Bull’s eye
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