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Why did I watch this movie?

It is funny that I watched the film on the day of release considering that I absolutely hated Main Hoon Na, Farah Khan’s last venture, and I am not a huge fan of Shahrukh Khan the actor (though I am a fan of SRK the celebrity). In fact I dislike most of the films he’s done. So why did I see this film? Well, A, it releases on Deepavali which is a movie watching time. B, the promos of the film looked great and C, the music is phenomenal.

What is the movie about?

The film is so hyped, I’m sure all of you all know what it’s about.

Why should you watch it?

• They are showing the Taare Zameen Par theatrical trailer before the film
• It has Amisha Patel.
• Akshay Kumar rocks in his special appearance.
• The film makes fun of a lot of things about bollywood, like SRK’s sameness, Manoj Kumar’s style etc etc..
• It is Arjun Rampal’s first film where he shows more than one emotion.
• Mithundaa is dancing……… woohooo..
• The highly imaginative end credits.
• Deepika Padukone.
• Dialogs, especially SRK’s award acceptance speech.
• The Dhoom Taana song (no, not Deewanagi.. it wasn’t that great).
• Because this film has SRK on screen for 2h30m out of the 2h46m playing time.
• The film manages to tickle your funny bone on many many occasions.

What is the moral of the film?

• If you aren’t successful in realizing your dream, kill yourself; you might do it in the next life.

How are the performances?

Honestly, do you care? If you do then ok.. I think SRK was efficient. The role was written for him cos I know Farah and Johar cast SRK even before the scripting is done. So no real histrionics needed from him. Nevertheless he does well.

Padukone looks hot and I kept staring at her with a blank mind and so got no time to judge her acting.

Rampal is good as the baddy. Newsflash: He can act….!!!!

Kirron Kher irritates me. I feel like bashing her up. Kirron Kher is the modern day Nirupa Roy. I hated her in RDB, Fanaa, Hum Tum, KANK.. she grates on my nerves. Anupam, you should have kept her at home..!!

Shreyas is awesome. Seriously it’s hard to be that confident with SRK around but the boy does beautifully well.

Akshay Kumar, for me, is the star of the show. The 5 minutes he’s on the screen are simply hilarious.. Akshay is this country’s greatest rockstar, I tell you.

What could’ve been better?

Well the problem with the film is that it is trying to show a little too much in too little time. The second half seems uber rushed. The best parts of a reincarnation film, IMHO, are the parts where the guy in the new life is slowly reminded of his previous life – like in Karz (a classic) where the guy plays a tune he played in his last life, or in Karan Arjun where Salman randomly bursts into ‘Bhaag Arjun..’. Wow those are the moments. Such great moments are missing in OSO just cos there is little time. The previous lives contributed to a small fraction of the screen time in Karz and Karan Arjun and so the director could afford to unfold the truth slowly. In OSO, Farah doesn’t have this luxury as the first life is half the film. But I like SRK’s fear of fire and him giving the acceptance speech he prepared in his previous life. There aren’t enough such moments. One fine day he meets Rampal and whoom… he remembers everything. I didn’t like the sudden spark of knowledge. A slow unfolding would have been much better.

This also means that the first half is kinda draggy. Farah packs in as many jokes as possible in the first half at the expense of moving the story forward.

Final verdict?

OSO is a good movie. It is not a great movie because of the bad prioritization by the director, as mentioned above. However I fix little expectations from SRK films as they disappoint me more often than not, and so the film left me content at the end of it all. I am a fan of all kinds of cinema and certainly don’t mind masala films, but I hope that SRK and his film production company, after making 100 crores from this film, would go into braver films. I love the SRK of Swades, Chak De India, and Baadshah.. the SRK of Veer-Zaara, KANK, and OSO bores me.

Score: 6.5/10

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