As soon as Nivin Pauly rides with his friend and stops the vehicle for a smoke, the standard disclaimer to not to smoke tries to appear on the screen but with a twist. Nivin Pauly pushes away the disclaimer with his bare hands and tries to smoke but to no avail. Ultimately, the disclaimer wins the zany battle resulting in Nivin Pauly to assert that smoking is injurious to health. It perfectly set the ball rolling for something different and not just yet another run-of-the-mill 120 minute story.
Ohm Shanti Oshana is basically a Nazriya's film. Like the Atlas who shoulders the Earth, she has single-handedly taken up the onerous responsibility to play the hero in this movie even though Nivin Pauly also occupies the screen space. The entire flick is based from a girl's perspective - from the time she is born, how she hopelessly falls in love with her knight in shining armor, his rejection, her dogged determination to win over him and what happens eventually in the end. The movie clearly portrays the different mind sets of a girl's life at different points in her age with love for Giri as the common denominator. That shows her resolute and firmness of purpose and the extreme to which the tomboyish character would have gone for making her dream love a reality.
Despite Nazriya helming the film like a steady and veteran captain with her endearing, buoyant, dreamy and expressive emotions, Nivin Pauly does give in a strong performance as a sober son to his mother by taking up farming as his profession. The rocking BGM as he rides in the Bullet when Nazriya sits and waits in the bus stop is really worth mentioning. The songs were Upbeat like Kaatu Mooliyo and melodies like Mounam Chorum Neram and Sneham cherum neram.
Much like the comic introductory first scene involving the smoking disclaimer, the complete film is sprinkled with lots of laughs, energy, cuteness and love. For instance, when Pooja hears that Giri has gone to China, she imagines him to be a Chinese in the company of a Chinese woman. OMG! Nivin Pauly in the Chinese avatar was simply rollicking. Likewise, it was a rib-tickling scene when Nazriya innocently mistakes and takes the biscuit during the viva when she was posed with a question. Similarly, the film has a fair share of its own charming one-liners which doesn't stick with you in your head as you are busy laughing like anything.
OSO is that kind of an alluring movie that is delightful, warm, tender and light-hearted which makes you fall in love with the film over and over again.
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