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Om Shanti Oshana Malayalam Movie Review by Chandra Mohan

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Om Shanti Oshana, the title of the movie directed by Jude Anthany Joseph is too catchy to grab the viewers attention and about the film, it is a romantic comedy that is good for a time pass. A feel good factor works in favour of the film to make it entertaining and for a debutant director, Jude Anthany has done his job to make the film a watchable flick especially for the youth.

Narrated from the perspective of the leading lady Pooja, Om Shanti Ohshana portray the love Pooja ( a medical student) has for Giri ( a farmer). The film is more of a female centric one where the focus is more on the character of Pooja and hence Giri is more or less sidelined but the male character gets his moments too.

Focus of the first half is mainly drawn towards establishing the character traits of Pooja and how she falls for the hero who is a victim of a lost love. A watchable half and it could have been more entertaining had Nazriya performed the role better. The latter half has more of a serious tone but at the same time, the script follows a light hearted and simple way of presenting things.

On the making side, director has chosen a very simple way of narrating the plot and his likeness for M&M is there to be seen on many occasions and to cite an example, the hit film Spadikam gets a mention on couple of instances.

Now on to the acting side, though the character of Pooja gets more attention throughout the film, Nivin Pauly as Giri played his part to make it very convincing. Pooja's character had the scope for some bubbly and cheerful performance from Nazriya but she could not raise her performance and for me it was an average acting especially the first half. The performance showed improvement towards the second half.

There are not too many supporting casts in the film and its Aju Varghese and Vineeth Sreenivasan the noteworthy ones among the lot. Director and scenarist Renjith played the role of Dr.Mathai (Pooja's father) and he was quite good in that role. Another director Lal Jose appear towards the end in a cameo role.

Cinematography and edits were fine while music and background score by Shaan Rahman were on the positive side. The song shown at the beginning when the title credits are shown was funny to hear. This is again repeated when the end credits start rolling down.

Overall, Om Shanti Ohshana is NOT a disappointing movie and I would categorise the film into a one time watchable romantic comedy. There are negatives in the film but the positives outshone the negative factors and my rating is three and a quarter (3.25) on five.

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