"Oka Manasu" Movie Review - Very slower than a snail !!

Movie Name  :  Oka Manasu
Rating            :  2 / 5
Starring         :  Naga Shourya, Niharika Konidela, Rao Ramesh, Srinivas Avasarala, Vennela Kishore, Nagineedu, Pragati, Krishna Bhagavan and others
Banner           : Madhura Entertainments
Story              :  Rama Raju
Music             : Sunil Kashyap
Cinematography : Ram Reddy
Editing            :  Dharmendra Kakarla
Producer        : Madhura Sreedhar Reddy, Abhinay, Krishna Bhatta
Screen play & Direction :  Rama Raju
Date of Release  :  24th June, 2016


One small movie which made so much buzz is "Oka Manasu" in recent times because it is the debut vehicle for actor Naga Babu's daughter Niharika Konidela.  The film got the entire craze due to Niharika although the hero is Naga Shourya.  

Rama Raju has made his directional debut with a good movie "Mallela Theeram Lo Sirimalle Chettu".  But the film went un noticed due to various reasons.  It has taken some time for his to overcome the failure and script his second movie "Oka Manasu".  This movie generated tremendous buzz after Niharika was roped to play the female lead in this film.   Let us see some details about this movie..

Story  :

Surya ( Naga Shourya ) beats up people for wrong doings.  He is the son of a local politician. His goal is to become MLA as per his father's wish.   A young doctor Sandhya ( Niharika ) falls in love with him at first sight.  She meets him again and again and they fall in love with each other.  Even though she does not want Surya to enter into politics, she was not able to stop him nor end the relationship.

Surya was put in jail for beating up a guy.  He gets bail but the case continues to be on him.  He lands into a situation where he has to leave Sandhya. Surya lands in jail due to a settlement issue.  Even after three years, the case continue to haunt him and his future will be in danger.  A situation forces Sandhya to be away from Surya.  What decision did she take and how did it affect both of them is the rest of the story !!  

Performance of artists  :

Naga Shourya role as aspiring MLA was one of the best in his career.  He gets full marks or his best performance depicting the struggle of a lover who has been facing unfavourable situations.  His performance in second half was really excellent.  

The performance of Niharika was not bad.  She has already proved herself by acting in TV show and Youtube TV shows.  She has made confident debut.  An experienced actress could have done better justice to the role.  Overall, NIharika failed to match Naga Shourya.  The film completely revolves around Naga Shourya and Niharika, so the other actors do not make any impact on the movie.  

Rao Ramesh acted as father of Naga Shourya shows his mark in some of the scenes.  He breathes life into the character of Hero's father.  Pragathi irritates.   Avasarala, Vennela Kishore and Krishna Bhagvan have weak roles.. 

Technical aspects of the movie  :

The music by Sunil Kashyap is really an asset to the movie because the movie is mostly narrated by songs.  There are totally 7 songs.  Even though the songs does not impress the audience, they are suited to the Director's taste.

The cinematography by Ram Reddy can be appreciated.   The editing work is good but the movie place is very slow.  The production values are excellent.

Highlights of the movie  :

The  climax portion  and Niharika's impressive debut.

There are some drawbacks like slow pace, repetitive dialogues, and complete focus on only two characters

Overall analysis of the movie  :

The movie reminds us of poetry.   But the present generation does not have that much time for poetry or a film narrated in a poetic manner.   The person should have lot of patience to enjoy such a slow paced movie.  So this movie may be liked by only a limited section of audience.  

The actors acted normally and the conversations were very natural.  There could have been a bit humour in the movie which would have made the movie a hit.

The director has increased the dose of dialogues.  At some times, the audience find the lengthy dialogues irritating   Audience who seek entertainment may get bored with this lengthy dialogues.  There are random sentences and silly talks..  Heroine always asks questions and Hero always smiles.  What happens at 10th minute also happens at 60th minute and so.  The story never progresses forward.

We can not understand how a doctor loves a guy who indulges in fights and with him she wont have any future.  The characters played by Krishna Bhagavan and Avarasala Srinivas do not help the story in any way.  

Overll,  the movie is very slow paced and tests the patience of the audience.  some of the scenes in the movie may be liked by some audience who have poetic mindset but it is boring for common man.