While watching "Osthi" I was reminded my younger years when after watching good action movies especially movies with cop stories me & my friends used to imitate the hero & the action scenes during our play times. Just imagine if kids like we were provided with money & all the properties that they have used in those movies and asked to do our level best in re-enacting those movies. That is the exact feeling I got about how STR aka Simbu might have felt seeing him do a "Dabaang " Salman Khan.
Seeing STR playing the hero in "Osthi" is like fulfilling one's own childhood fantasies. He is like a kid trying to emulate men on screen. Trying to do a cop , mouthing innumerable punch dialogs (which even the seniors in the industry are trying to get away from) , doing over the top super-heroic action sequences & mixing needless gymnastics in the name of dance (though he dances wonderfully well otherwise ) STR has gone two steps back from all the gains of "VTV" & "Vanam".
Filmmakers should realize that not all movies which are successful in one language necessarily mean it will be a hit if remade in other languages too. There are numerable examples for the same. And if you try to remake a movie which is in itself made by mixing & matching countless redundant aspects from your native language & became hit only because it was fresh & new to that language audience your are digging your own grave. No aspect of this movie is novel or unseen before except may be a "kid" playing cop for the first time in Tamil cinema..!
These are the days were even if your are Rajnikanth , you have to have the backing of solid story , interesting screenplay , novel ideas , extra bit of variation in acting from the routine , change of get-ups etc to give a successful movie. Hence it is sad to see young & upcoming actors like STR resorting to the convenient simple route which is certainly not enough to make the audience take notice.
It is understood one should not look into logic & reasons while watching a movie which is made only with entertainment as its objective . But there are loopholes in the basic premises itself & many are laughable ones at that. The protagonist not an ingenuous person himself why he specifically chooses Daniel , the Villain of the movie to lock horns with is not clear. It is understandable that an young child having aversion towards his step father but why would a mature man hate his young step son without any justifiable reason. And the most comical & ridiculous sequences are the ones where heroine giving reasons for not willing to marry the hero , heroine's father response to it (come on..! it is a case of plain concrete thinking on the part of the writer . Daughter saying i can't marry leaving my old alcoholic father alone doesn't mean he should die , only then she can get married....sigh!) & the manner in which heroine agrees to marry the hero readily as soon as her father dies. These are only few absurdities of many which readily come to one's mind.
STR has tried his best to look convincing as a cop but to no avail. Except mouthing punch dialogs & trying to flex his muscles both in action as well as dance sequences nothing much can be expected from him in a movie of this kind. Richa sleeps walks through her brief role . Ramesh tries to discover his acting talents one more time but success eludes him as usual. Sonu Sood looks disinterested. Loads of veterans line Nasser, Revathi , VijayKumar , "Nizhalgal" Ravi , "Thambi" Ramaiah are wasted in routine caricatures. Shanthanam do evoke few laughs here & there with his impeccable timing but he is getting too predictable.
Thaman's songs are already huge hits. All songs are foot tapping numbers especially "Neduvallli" & "Vaadi Vaadi cute pondatti" . "Unnale unnale" is a delectable melody. Background score however is loud & noisy.
Barathan's dialogs are tailor made for movie like these with everyone extolling the noble virtues , courage & intelligence of the hero. Almost everyone , even the heroine has a chance to mouth a punch dialog.
Gopinath's cinematography is good & glossy . CG works are done subtly.
Dharani has missed his shot at redemption after his previous failures like "Bangaram" & "Kuruvi" where his successful career hit a speed brake. It is time to introspect not only for Dharani but also for STR.
On the whole , "Osthi" is nothing the name suggests.
Seeing STR playing the hero in "Osthi" is like fulfilling one's own childhood fantasies. He is like a kid trying to emulate men on screen. Trying to do a cop , mouthing innumerable punch dialogs (which even the seniors in the industry are trying to get away from) , doing over the top super-heroic action sequences & mixing needless gymnastics in the name of dance (though he dances wonderfully well otherwise ) STR has gone two steps back from all the gains of "VTV" & "Vanam".
Filmmakers should realize that not all movies which are successful in one language necessarily mean it will be a hit if remade in other languages too. There are numerable examples for the same. And if you try to remake a movie which is in itself made by mixing & matching countless redundant aspects from your native language & became hit only because it was fresh & new to that language audience your are digging your own grave. No aspect of this movie is novel or unseen before except may be a "kid" playing cop for the first time in Tamil cinema..!
These are the days were even if your are Rajnikanth , you have to have the backing of solid story , interesting screenplay , novel ideas , extra bit of variation in acting from the routine , change of get-ups etc to give a successful movie. Hence it is sad to see young & upcoming actors like STR resorting to the convenient simple route which is certainly not enough to make the audience take notice.
It is understood one should not look into logic & reasons while watching a movie which is made only with entertainment as its objective . But there are loopholes in the basic premises itself & many are laughable ones at that. The protagonist not an ingenuous person himself why he specifically chooses Daniel , the Villain of the movie to lock horns with is not clear. It is understandable that an young child having aversion towards his step father but why would a mature man hate his young step son without any justifiable reason. And the most comical & ridiculous sequences are the ones where heroine giving reasons for not willing to marry the hero , heroine's father response to it (come on..! it is a case of plain concrete thinking on the part of the writer . Daughter saying i can't marry leaving my old alcoholic father alone doesn't mean he should die , only then she can get married....sigh!) & the manner in which heroine agrees to marry the hero readily as soon as her father dies. These are only few absurdities of many which readily come to one's mind.
STR has tried his best to look convincing as a cop but to no avail. Except mouthing punch dialogs & trying to flex his muscles both in action as well as dance sequences nothing much can be expected from him in a movie of this kind. Richa sleeps walks through her brief role . Ramesh tries to discover his acting talents one more time but success eludes him as usual. Sonu Sood looks disinterested. Loads of veterans line Nasser, Revathi , VijayKumar , "Nizhalgal" Ravi , "Thambi" Ramaiah are wasted in routine caricatures. Shanthanam do evoke few laughs here & there with his impeccable timing but he is getting too predictable.
Thaman's songs are already huge hits. All songs are foot tapping numbers especially "Neduvallli" & "Vaadi Vaadi cute pondatti" . "Unnale unnale" is a delectable melody. Background score however is loud & noisy.
Barathan's dialogs are tailor made for movie like these with everyone extolling the noble virtues , courage & intelligence of the hero. Almost everyone , even the heroine has a chance to mouth a punch dialog.
Gopinath's cinematography is good & glossy . CG works are done subtly.
Dharani has missed his shot at redemption after his previous failures like "Bangaram" & "Kuruvi" where his successful career hit a speed brake. It is time to introspect not only for Dharani but also for STR.
On the whole , "Osthi" is nothing the name suggests.
