A run-of-the-mill comedy with a few surprises
Some movies make you are feeling like an grownup attending a kids’s birthday celebration. You see all these little souls leaping round and having enjoyable, and you are feeling completely happy for them even when it doesn’t do a lot for you. The youngsters are amused, and also you strive your finest to imbibe the enjoyable. Sree Harsha Konuganti’s newest directorial, Om Bheem Bush, is one such movie.
When the makers boldly proclaimed of their poster, “No logic, solely magic,” you are taking it with a pinch of salt. However Om Bheem Bush, which revolves across the shenanigans of three carefree younger scamsters, takes the tagline critically. I don’t imply it in a pejorative method. Om Bheem Bush is foolish in an pleasing means, but it surely’s additionally disappointing that the movie doesn’t try strongly sufficient to transcend its consolation. Author-director A Harsha Konuganti is just too content material with a generic model of comedy. The narrative hops and frolics with childlike vitality, happy with its meta references and one-liners. The outcomes aren’t dangerous; we get loads of laughs, but it’s nothing new. Among the tropes, like Krish’s (Sree Vishnu) knack for utilizing incorrect English phrases, get tiring after a degree.
There’s one sequence the place the movie delves into the type of insanity you anticipate from a slapstick comedy. Our three protagonists, who we’re advised are mere fraudsters below the garb of their doctorate levels, try and remedy a person’s infertility points. The ‘scientific’ methodology they use is so shockingly weird, that you haven’t any alternative however to gape in awe after which slowly give into chuckles.
A premise like Om Bheem Bush wanted extra of such no-holds-barred lunacy, however the makers surprisingly don’t push themselves sufficient, at the least within the first half. Happily, Rahul Ramakrishna and Priyadarshi are remarkably good with their timing and punchlines, so that you make peace with the garden-variety humour for some time. As soon as the movie ushers into the second half, you marvel how lengthy the makers can maintain on such skinny ice.
There are just a few different parts that pull down the movie as effectively. For example, the 2 songs within the first half have an extreme concentrate on glamour, a determined try to carry the viewers’s consideration. Amidst all of the desperation and run-of-the-mill jokes, you retain hoping that the movie may shock us, and luckily, director Sree Harsha involves the rescue in direction of the tip.
Om Bheem Bush might be the final movie that you’d anticipate to make an announcement (nonetheless flimsy and light-weight) on LGBTQ rights. And one way or the other, amidst its buffoonery, Om Bheem Bush manages to do exactly that. This new plot growth about our protagonists studying in regards to the previous of Sampangi, a ghost determine that has been haunting the village for hundreds of years, is satisfyingly absurd. Regardless of the anticlimactic revelation, Sampangi by no means turns into a laughing inventory. Such a trope may have simply gone haywire, however there’s an earnestness to the best way Sree Harsha treats these moments.
Sree Vishnu, regardless of being the movie’s lead, is essentially absent within the second half. Not that we significantly thoughts—Rahul and Priyadarshi are supremely good at holding the scenes, in spite of everything—but it surely’s disconcerting to see a movie so imbalanced.
Nevertheless, it’s also by Krish (Sree Vishnu) that the most important twist within the narrative arrives. There’s something endearing about his straight-faced sincerity as Krish accepts a weird problem for the nice of his friends and your complete village. He doesn’t smirk or frown on the absurdity of his state of affairs (Sree Vishnu can be restrained in his act compared to his friends, and it really works within the movie’s favour).
If Om Bheem Bush works, it’s due to the insanity of the fabric Sree Harsha has at hand and the earnestness he brings to the display screen. Many filmmakers can tackle a formulaic story, but it surely requires conviction to embrace the over-the-top absurdity like Sree Harsha does right here. And it’s value a visit to the theatres simply to see an unabashed crowd-pleaser movie that takes small dangers and nonetheless stays standing on its ft until the tip.
Evaluation
Film : Om Bheem Bush
Forged: Sree Vishnu, Rahul Ramakrishna, Priyadarshi, Racha Ravi, Ayesha Khan, Preethi Mukundan
Director: Sree Harsha Konuganti
Score : 3/5
