‘Ottu’ movie review: Grounded by a rather lifeless script
Midway by means of Ottu, one wonders whether or not it’s a thriller, a highway film or an everyday gangster flick. For, there are parts right here that might make it belong to any of those genres.
By the top of all of it, the questions nonetheless stay as a result of the makers themselves don’t appear to have made up their thoughts on what they needed out of the movie. The tip credit then level in the direction of the prospect of a prequel and a sequel, after which the ‘Chapter 2’ within the title begins making some sense.
The planning for a three-part sequence might be additionally the explanation why a lot is left unsaid within the film. Ultimately, it appears like a jigsaw puzzle with fairly just a few lacking items, making one wonder if it has sufficient in it for a stand-alone film.
Kichu (Kunchacko Boban), a jobless youth, is planning to fly in another country together with his girlfriend Kalyani (Eesha Rebba) who has secured a job in Norway. To fund this plan, he takes up a mission from a mysterious group to befriend David, alias Dawood, (Arvind Swami), a dreaded underworld don who has misplaced his reminiscence fully after a shootout. Kichu is required to assist him regain his reminiscence, which might help the group to find the placement of some lacking gold.
Director Fellini T.P., who debuted with Theevandi, goals for a much bigger canvas in Ottu, scripted by Hemanth Kumar. Nonetheless, the ambition, mirrored within the star forged and the expansive setting alongside the south-western coast stretching from Mumbai to Mangaluru, doesn’t translate properly on the display screen, partly as a result of a dull script.
The movie invests so much on the highway journey that Kichu takes with David as a way to rekindle his recollections in locations intently entwined together with his previous. Apart from just a few attention-grabbing sequences, a lot of this journey is marked by sheer boredom, with the plot advancing at a glacial tempo. The one factor that works to an extent is the chemistry between the 2 actors and their evolving relationship in the course of the journey.
The plan all alongside appears to have been to take the bored viewers abruptly, with a flurry of twists and high-flying motion in the previous couple of minutes. Regardless of a genuinely shocking flip, this plan doesn’t work properly. Added to the truth that the makers stored all the pieces for too late are the pointless motion sequences that are staged fairly unimaginatively.
A cameo from Jackie Shroff makes us wonder if he was there only for together with one other in style title from the yesteryears within the forged, since not a lot effort has been made in writing that character.
The way in which Ottu proceeds doesn’t make one excited sufficient for the promised prequel and the sequel.
