Oka Manasu Telugu Movie
Surya (Naga Shourya) is a son of small time politician (Rao Ramesh) who obediently follows his father to become an MLA. He does to settlements and creates fear in local people. On the other side, there is Sandhya (Niharika), a doctor who loves Surya but wants him to get clean from the political mess. One day, Surya gets arrested in a SC/ST atrocity case and finally comes out on bail. Situations force him to choose between his father or Sandhya. What Surya decides? How it impacts their lives? forms the rest of the story.
Naga Shourya is good as an obedient son and adorable lover. Niharika can not be termed as good but is okay in her first attempt. She chose a difficult subject for her first film. Rao Ramesh is great as always. Srinivas Avasarala got a routine role but no comedy. Pragathi tests your patience with over action. Vennela Kishore is just confined to a single comedy scene.
Oka Manasu is a matured love story and is a good choice by director Ramaraju. However the slow narration (Read it as Very Very Slow) turned averse for the film. Another disappointment is the way how the director handled the love track. Even though most of the film is about conversations between the lead pair but it all appears awkward. Audience will relate to their track only towards the pre-climax but then things have got out of hands by then. Even the dialogues between them are boring and ineffective. The audience are further bored with no entertainment at all. Only good thing is the execution of the father-son track.
Sunil Kashyap had come up with beautiful songs and back ground score which breathed in life to the film. Few songs are too good with arresting visuals, good music and beautiful lyrics. Cinematographer Ram Reddy came up with wonderful visuals of Vizag and Araku. Editing should have been better in the first half. Production Values are good.
Oka Manasu seems more like a film made for critical acclaim and few awards if possible. The slow pace and lack of commercial elements, makes it tough for normal audience to connect to it. A small section of A class audience may connect to it, if they have lot of patience but box office prospects looks poor.
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