After Settai ,a remake of Delhi Belly it is the turn for an original script from R.Kannan who alternates between the two. With his last two outings not exactly hitting the bull’s eye what does Kannan have to offer us through Oru Oorla Rendu Raja(OORR)?

Plot:

Two carefree and jobless youngsters meet a girl on a train. Just when you think it is going to be a routine love story you come to know that the girl has a noble mission and how she goes about achieving it with little help from our heroes is OORR.

Cast:

Vimal shows improvement with his screen presence and he has grown in leaps and bounds as a dancer. That apart the film as such offers him very little scope. Soori gets to mouth most of the dialogues. He comes up with a relatively understated performance. But the humour in OORR is particularly dry. You hardly recollect a couple of scenes that provided genuine laughter. Priya Anand is quite herself and does a neat job in a rare film that has a meaty role for the female lead. Nasser scores again while Anupama Kumar annoys you with her exaggerated villainy.

Crew:

Imman is an asset to OORR with all the songs striking a chord. As standalones they rock. But they are badly placed in the film. Editing seems shoddy with abrupt cuts at more than one occasion. The stunt sequence involving Vimal, Soori and Stunt Silva is nicely done. For a change the heroes get beaten up. More refreshing is that all the three involved in this sequence are actively involved in the fight all the time, in contrast to all those films where one person is always passive and at the receiving end of the blows.

Direction:

Kannan has taken up an important issue. For a few minutes you even get reminded of Kaththi with the theme having a little similarity to it. Another notable aspect of the film is that Priya Anand is actually the protagonist and the film actually travels with her. Even the help that Vimal and Soori do are not exaggerated and it is Priya Anand who does most of the job. But why this title then? Probably a commercial compulsion. The film never really grips your attention. The initial scenes are uninspiring and bore you. When the main plot takes centrestage, the dubbing and accent of Vishaka Singh strikes a fatal blow. When such an important character is given such a careless treatment OORR begins to lose it’s credibility. Ultimately the film neither entertains you nor convincingly drives home the message.

Bottomline:

With an irrelevant title and less than inspiring narration the film is actually a sparsely populated kingdom that hardly needed one king but has two!!

Rating:2.25/5