Movie Name	Oh Baby
Cast	Samantha Akkineni, Naga Sourya, Rajendra Prasad, Lakshmi
Director	Nandini Reddy
Music Director	Mickey J Meyer

Remaking a movie from another language is a common trend in every film industry even in this era of OTT ruling the roost. Producers are in a hunt of such movies which have universal appeal or emotional content, literally. Oopiri which stars Nagarjuna is a remake of “The Intouchables” a French movie and recently released “Bharat” starring Salman Khan is also a remake of a Korean movie “An Ode to My Father”. The audience has every facility to watch the movie simply on the OTT platform but the producers might be aiming to reach that audience who don’t have that OTT facility. Samantha Akkineni and director Nandini Reddy came together for a film for Suresh Productions named ” Oh Baby” which is a remake of Korean film “Miss Granny”. This movie is releasing into theatres today. Let’s see how it works on us.

 

Stoy

Baby (Lakshmi) is an old lady who has all the so-called bad qualities of being old. She runs a college canteen along with Chanti (Rajendra Prasad). As an old lady, her way of caring is different and her daughter in law is affected very much mentally and health wise due to the naggings of Baby. She gets admitted into a hospital due to a mild heart stroke. The doctor advises the family to join Baby in an old age home for the betterment of her daughter in law which hurts the baby as her granddaughter yells at her telling this. She goes from there to her canteen and she gets a call from her grandson inviting her to his musical performance and it changes the life of Baby. How her life changes?

Cast and performance

Lakshmi has done a great job in the role of Baby. Her character is the crux for the movie to workout and she bettered her role. Samantha Akkineni has done a terrific job in her role. She is fantastic in every aspect and dubbing of Chinmayi to her role helped. Rajendra Prasad is superb. Rao Ramesh once again proved himself in the emotional sequence. Naga Shaurya is nice. Teja, Pragathi, Snigdha, RJ Hemanth are good. All other actors have done a good job in their roles.

Writing Department

The story of Oh Baby is different conceptually and the screenplay is good. The dialogues of the film are written well.

Technical departments

The songs composed by Mickey J Meyer are nice. He put in a great effort in composing background score. Richard Prasad has done fine work in terms of cinematography. The editing of the film could have been better. The production values are grand.

Highlights

-> Samantha Akkineni
-> Comedy sequences
-> Concept of the film

Minus

-> Too much of emotional scenes
-> Routine approach to a unique concept

Verdict

Oh Baby is a story that tells the life of older people in the family and their innate feelings. The film has a really unique concept which stands out from the rest of Telugu films. With such a concept in hand, director Nandini Reddy and writer Lakshmi Bhupala approached it in a very routine way like every other Telugu film with loud emotions and summarised dialogues. Even the revelation of new things is done so routine. This is a disappointing aspect of the film. The positives include Samantha Akkineni and her character which generates good humor with the body language and dialect. The emotional scenes are good but gone overboard may be to entice the family audience. The second half seemed a bit longer, maybe because of the conclusions. The film is not what the trailers or promos have promised and to summarise, Oh, baby is a film aimed for the family audience with a fantastic performance of Samantha Akkineni with a few surprises.

Movie Name	Mallesham
Cast	Priyadarshi, Ananya Nagalla, Jhansi
Director	Raj. R
Music Director	Mark K Robin
Producers	Raj. R, Sri Adhikari

Mallesham is the movie that tells us the ‘real’ life journey of Chinthakindi Mallesham, an ordinary man who overcame all the odds and received Padma Shri award for his amazing contribution to the life of weavers. The film, in simple words, is the biopic of Chinthakindi Mallesham and Priyadarshi played the title role in the movie. A newcomer Raj R is making his directorial debut with the movie. Suresh Productions are backing this project now. The film is releasing on 21st June in the theatres and paid premieres are being organized in the city on 20th June evening. We watched the movie and the following is our comment.

Story:

Mallesham (Priyadarshi) is a happy go lucky guy in his village who had to put an end to his studies in childhood to extend his support to his family by entering the business of weaving. One day, he observes that his mother is undergoing a lot of struggle in weaving the thread. He then comes up with the idea of inventing the new weaving machine which will ease the workload. But, he encounters a lot of struggles in the process of inventing it. What struggles did he face? Did he become successful? What happened in the end? Forms the story of the movie.

Performances:

Priyadarshi is at his career best and he has delivered the finest performance till date. There is a lot of honesty in the way he put his performance forward. The actor is well supported by all the other artists in the movie. The newcomer Ananya Nagalla who played the role to perfection is definitely the best. The chemistry between Priyadarshi and Ananya is too good. Jhansi’s impeccable performance as the mother is a big treat to watch. All the other actors did well and made their presence felt.

Writing Department:

The film’s director cleverly included the main interesting points in the story and designed a beautiful screenplay. The conversations in the movie are very natural and all the actors maintained the Telangana slang perfectly. The writing is excellent in the movie.

Technical Aspects:

The camera work of the movie is extraordinary. The cinematographer has showcased the visuals of the village beautifully. The village environment was explored nicely in the movie. The editing is good. The audio album is pleasant and the background score helped the movie big time. The BGM is not loud but elevated the film at the right parts. The artwork is excellent. The production values are decent.

Verdict:

Mallesham is one of finest Telugu films that the audiences get to watch in recent times. There are a lot of interesting elements in the movie. The movie makes the audiences laugh, make them cry and also, more importantly, makes us think about it too many times. The film throws light on the artisans who sacrifice their lives to make clothes for our special occasions and life in general. The story is definitely to be told to the generations coming up. The movie is surely driven by the storyteller the director Raj, but it amazingly steered by a spellbinding performance by lead actors. Go watch it.