Nov 26, 2010

Orange movie review


Cast : Ramcharan, Genelia D’Souza, Shazahn Padamsee, Brahmanandam, Prakashraj, Madhurima, Prabhu, Nagababu, Manjula, Sanjay Swaroop, Srinivas Avasarala, Sanchita Padukone etc.
Music : Harris Jayaraj
Production Executive : Manyam Ramesh
Cinematographer : Rajasekhar
Editor : Marthand K Venkatesh
Producer : K.Nagababu
Banner : Anjana Productions
Director : Bhaskar
Release date : 26 November 2010

Story : Ram (Ramcharan) lives in Sydney city, australia as a graffiti artist with his sister sister Manjula and brother-in-law Sanjay Swaroop.  He sees Janaki (Genelia), who is a student in sydney and feels love for her. Song 1 : Syndey Nagaram starts with cool steps and Ram tries to get closer to Janaki. Ram has fixed opinions about love and he believes that one person’s heart can love any number of persons and need not stick to only one person. Janaki /Janu has opposite opinions and she believes in commitments in love. Ram reveals to Janu that he already fell in love 9 times in past. Nagababu’s character deals with Ram and his work. Madhurima plays a small guest role and second song Nenu Nuvvantu completes. The much awaited sky diving scene is shown before third song Hello Rammante song. Brahmanandam, ‘Vennela’ Kishore, Avasarala Srinivas generate some comedy with movie’s main theme being injected slowly. First half ends on positive note with lots of good visuals, styling, comedy, one fight with spray paints and some romance.

Second half opens with a scene trying to convince the plot of the movie.  Game of ‘Truth or Dare’ is used to explain the main idea of the movie which gets good response. Fourth song O Range Love idi O Baby is shot in a pub with dancer and Charan. Prakashraj is a cop is australia who enquires Ram about his flashback as a part of informal interrogation. Shazahn Padamsee is shown in flashback episode which runs in hyderabad and mumbai. Fifth song Rooba Rooba is well shot on Charan and Shazahn.
Flashback ends with a twist and movie returns to sydney. Sixth song Chilipga chustavalaa is shot in cool locations with montage shots where director tries to show hero realising what true love is and is after heroine.
Movie ends after a train fight.

In the end , Ram realises that throughout his journey of love he realised what actually love is and how to deal with it.

Analysis : Director Bhaskar picked up a novel idea to show his lead character believing that love can happen multiple times and his contrast is heroine, who believes in one love per lifetime.  In the end he tries to show how hero gets convinced. Many elements from current generation love stories are used in this script and most of youth can connect to those scenes.  Ramcharan comes up with an entirely new look than his earlier movies and rocks in dances and fights.

He succesfully breaks the image barrier of Magadheera. Genelia tries to look younger but her character doesn’t create much impression. Shazahn Padamsee looks cute in her small flashback episode which had a song with Charan. She has potential to take lead roles in south movies soon. She would have done more justice than genelia to lead role here. Prabhu as Janu’s father and Prakashraj as police in sydney are wasted with most screen presence taken by lead roles themselves. Brahmanandam, Srinivasa Avasarala and ‘Vennela’ Kishore provoke good enough laughter in 1st half.

Cinematography is of good quality and background score of Harris Jayaraj creates right mood for each scene.Overall a good attempt by Bhaskar and team which has something for current generation love birds, though he doesnt explain or convince on many points. Watch it for ‘love’ feel, Charan’s style, cool music and visuals and clean comedy.

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