Ok Bangaram is a love story about live in relationship that happened between the lead pair in Mumbai. Some situations between hero Dulquer Salmaan and Heroine Nitya Menon made them to live together in a house at Mumbai Before leaving to abroad. After a series of disasters, the master of storytelling, Mani Ratnam, is coming back with a contemporary love story, OK Bangaram. Let us see OK Bangaram Review, if the legend has lived up to the revere.
Story:
An urbane love story with no melodrama yet utterly emotional. It is a story that narrates you the journey of a like minded couple from love to marriage. How they change their mind about relation ships, over time, forms the crux of the story. OK Bangaram is not about the story perhaps the story telling. The ethereal characters and the intense narration takes you through a joyous ride.
Performances:
Talking about the characters or the performances, you cannot individually judge Taara and Adhi. Yeah! we prefer to call them with the given character names, since we haven’t really seen Nithya Menen and Dulquer Salmaan on screen. They make you believe in the characters and lets you travel along with them. Taara and Aadhi makes an adorable pair and OK Bangaram is all about the life they have given to the catalytic events narrated by Mani Ratnam. Prakash Raj and Leela Samson has done their job well as the supporting cast.
Technical Aspects:
Pure Class. P C Sreeram and Mani Ratnam makes you feel nostalgic, taking back to the locations of Sakhi. P.C. Sreeram’s cinematography takes the film notches higher. He plays with the hues and the lights and sets the mood for the film, never really letting the frame have any jarring element.
Mani Ratnam‘s lives up to the unconditional love and respect he gets. He played it safe by adding a urbane touch to his own old classics. Initially the movie might appear very artificial and slow but Mani does his magic with each scene and by the end, the characters grow on you.
A R Rahman waves his musical wand through out the film. The songs gets stuck in the mind after the movie and they might never leave your playlist if you could connect with OK Bangaram. Especially the back ground music in the last 30 mins with the single vocal, makes you realize why he is a legend of Indian cinema.
Plus Points:
- Chemistry between the lead pair.
- Maniratnam’s direction
- PC Sreeram’s Camera work
- ARR’s music and BGM
Minus Points:
- Slow Pace
- Limited Appeal
Overview:
Mani Ratnam is finally back on the pedestal with OK Bangaram. However, It is neither a classic nor a master piece, but is a journey you should surely witness. If you are OK with the slow narrative style, you got to go watch OK Bangaram and fall in love with Taara and Aadhi.
Verdict:
The Master of story telling is Back !