Oka V Chitram Telugu Movie

Mar 20, 2006 By Kishore

This summer where would you find the families? In theatres watching "Sri Ramadasu", of course. And the youth? Watching Mahesh Babu in "Pokiri".

Well, Pokiri is growing strong by the day, the entire young crowd is there. Bangaram though a crowd puller, fails to keep pace with Pokiri and thrives on the same young crowd. Pournami is doing fine, families and youth are patronizing it. Lets not talk about Veerabhadra, it has fallen flat on its face.

So the youth and the families thronging theatres screening Pokiri and Sri Ramdasu and Bangaram as well as Pournami enticing the audience with their heavy star cast, who is left to watch Oka V Chitram? The pull of Teja’s fame as a director attracts a house full crowd on the first day’s noon show. Many students who have no better option for entertainment would trickle down to watch the movie for the subsequent shows. But many will be dissuaded by the word of mouth lukewarm publicity the movie gets. Teja is a brilliant filmmaker but is under no compulsion to be so every time. In Oka V Chitram he utilizes his creativity to the best of his abilities. That includes a monkey giving prasadam to the hero, bachelors renting out a house and a suicide drama. These situations have been done to death in thousands of movies.

And for a difference the mother of the hero urges the hero not to avenge their family dishonor but make a movie with the reigning super star of tollywood – Santosh Babu (a reference to Mahesh Babu). Again for a difference, the hero Balram (Pradeep) comes to the big bad world of the city and works as a clapper boy and not as an ad copywriter. He runs away from home with six gold bangles of his mother to make a movie with his favorite film star Santosh Babu (Vamsi). Creativity of Teja.

First of all the very way Balram gets the idea to make a picture with his favorite star is again the example of creativity of the story writer. Balram emerges out of a theatre along with other fans after watching a movie of Santosh Babu. Though other fans praise the movie for their star’s sake, Balram disagrees and states that the movie is going to be a flop. Arguments ensue between him and other fans of Santosh Babu. They taunt him by saying. “If you are so good at judging movies why don’t you make a movie by yourself?” He says that he would release a movie with Santosh Babu as the hero by the next Deepavali and if he fails to do that he would consume poison in front of the same theatre that they are arguing. Creativity of Teja continues – poison evokes strong response from people and has been used in a thousand movies. So he uses it again and you question in your mind as you watch the movie, “Is this necessary?”

The movie is not devoid of plus points. A- No necessary or unnecessary violence. The maximum are a few slaps. B- Many Realsitic scenes. C- Gives an insiders view of how the Telugu film industry works. D. Reasonable amount of comedy.

But the idea of making a realistic movie (of a fan making a movie with a low budget) with an unrealistic idea (how can you make a movie with a star without his knowledge, that’s what the hero of Oka V Chitram does) proves to be the undoing of the movie. Teja fails to convince the audience with all his realistic depictions. He gets no prop from the good acting of the cast, good comedy or good songs. Moreover negative portrayal of Santosh Babu as a reference to Mahesh Babu will not find many takers, for he is the reigning superstar.

Every thing remains pretty average in "Oka V Chitram". And the two jokers you see in the posters giving an unusual image to the movie are there only for two minutes doing almost nothing.