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Prior to the release of the film Oozham, director Jeethu Joseph was constantly trying to reduce the hype by saying it is not a suspense thriller, but a revenge drama. It was a good strategy considering the fact that the movie had moments of excitement soaked in surprising twists. Made on a tried and tested base theme of revenge, Oozham is a pleasing watch because of the way it was constructed towards that ending which everyone knew.

Mr. Krishnamoorthy and his family are settled in Coimbatore. He is a health inspector and has two kids and one adopted kid (kind of). Surya is his elder son who is working in US as an expert in controlled explosions to destruct old buildings (you might have seen that in Discovery or NGC). The movie deals with an incident that ended up in the death of the three members in the family excluding Surya and Ajmal. Both are shocked and are desperate for revenge as they knew some big name was behind all this. Their method of investigation and how they eventually complete their revenge is what Oozham narrating.

We have seen Jeethu Joseph’s obsession for montages and visual effects driven narrative pattern in his past movies. Here also the director has shown no compromise in using these. From the trailer itself it is clear that the film is a basic revenge drama. The success of the movie was highly dependent on how the characters operate within their limitations. Jeethu cleverly paints his characters by giving them backdrops that suited the requirement. The film is narrated in a back and forth style and the present being a chase to catch Surya, Oozham never really loses that tempo it generates in the beginning. Like how Prithviraj says in the trailer of killing the antagonists “one by one”, Jeethu knew that these “ones” are his points to grab the appreciation of audience and has designed each operation in a way we will get excited when it happens on screen.

Prithiviraj is convincing as the young charming IIT product. We have seen his revenge mode in movies like Puthiyamugham, Sathyam etc. and here also he delivers it in similar style. Neeraj Madhav has an elegant ease in being true to the character. Divya Pillai was also fine as Gayathri. A special mention to Rasna, who portrayed the role of Prithiviraj’s sister in this movie. Her performance had that grace and no offence to Prithvi, she scored in their combination scenes. V Jayaprakash was a convincing villain even though his dubbing wasn’t pleasing at some areas. Irshad did his role neatly. Balachandra Menon was also good in his friendly appearance as Krishnamoorthy. Pashupathy was a really good choice to play the role offered to him and he delivered it neatly.

The treatment we saw in Jeethu’s other thrillers is evident in Oozham too. Dialogues are relatively less and it looks like editor Ayoob Khan had a huge responsibility in conveying the progress just through aggressive cuts. The drama is there in dialogues which is a bit itchy occasionally. And when it comes to the sort of conviction in depicting sophisticated hacking techniques, Oozham is definitely ahead of “Vaappachi’s Legacy”. You cant say that it’s a flawless script, but the packaging is so clever and quick paced that you won’t really dig in to its imperfections. A large portion of the enjoyment depended on how they would execute all those explosion sequences convincingly within that constrained budget using visual effects. But fortunately only one or two explosions choreographed in the movie has gone wrong (visual effects quality wise). Shamdath’s camera has made sure that the visuals are intense enough to keep us occupied. The track other than the disco number is really nice. The disco song wasn’t a really catchy number when I saw it in YouTube, but for the movie it serves its purpose. The background score is also quite effective.

Oozham is not a suspense thriller which looks for an answer. But the movie ultimately works because of the minimal twists Jeethu Joseph has enclosed at major plot points. It’s a thumbs up from my side.

Rating : 3/5

 

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Post Drishyam, the biggest challenge before director Jeethu Joseph is of quenching the expectations of the audience. Irrespective of the genre, audience expect a thriller with suspense and unexpected twists in his movies. So the director is forced to make statements clarifying what the audience can expect from each of his release. This happened in Life of Joosootty and also for his latest release Oozham wherein he had to make it clear that there is no suspense and heavy twist in the film and the film belong to a different genre than Drishyam.

Oozham is more of a revenge drama than a suspense thriller with the familiar cliches that we normally come across in movies of this type. But the presentation and how the movie is built or constructed by Jeethu and his screenplay makes it a pretty nice movie good for a watch.

Krishnamoorthy is a Health Inspector and he is settled in Coimbatore with his family consisting of his wife, daughter and adopted son. His elder son Soorya is employed in US and he is an expert in Controlled Explosion, something which is not that popular in this part of the world. Its nothing but destroying old buildings after their life and conditions have become unsafe for a living. An unexpected turn of events affect the existence of Krishnamoorthy's family and Oozham shows the investigation by Soorya to find the perpetrators responsible for destroying his family and subsequently taking revenge.

The movie begins with the happenings inside this small family and showing the deep bond they share. Then we are shown a group of goons hunting down Soorya and at the same time a parallel narration where the protagonist along with his brother and fiancee looking for the whereabouts of the criminals and doing the revenge part is also part of the storytelling.

Jeethu on his part ensured that even though the story lacks any freshness, the execution side doesn't go waywardly by smartly showing the revenge part with little bit of twist to make the movie in a safe zone. The director has a knack of handling suspense films and thrillers and uses that skill here to portray a familiar story land safely without any sort of roadblocks.

Prithviraj plays the character Soorya very smartly. Actually the role is nothing new for him as we have seen him doing this angry young man character in some of his past movies. Oozham's character is just an extension of those. Neeraj Madhav as Ajmal, adopted son of the family was notable while Divya Pillai as Gayathri, the female lead also did her part. Rasna played the sister character to Prithviraj and she was quite impressive.

V.Jayaprakash, the pharmaceutical giant and villain was a correct choice for the role but it would have been better had he dubbed himself. Pasupathy appear as an aid to the villain and it was a clean act from the actor. Balachandra Menon, Irshad and Anson Paul did their small roles effectively as per the demands of the character.

Visuals from the camera department were pleasing for the eyes. The usual way of cinematography in previous Jeethu Joseph's movies like using lot of aerial shots are there in Oozham too and they added in giving a different dimension to this area. Edits were okay while the music department had done their job on the songs part. Background score was quite impressive suitable for a film of this genre in giving that extra punch.

This is no Drishyam or Memories. If you accept that fact and goes to watch the film with lesser expectation, I am sure you would find Oozham an engaging movie without any boredom or uneasiness.

Rating - 3 / 5

 

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