Featuring Nayanthara, ‘O2’ may have been an edge-of-the-seat survival drama. But it largely isn’t.
Featuring Nayanthara, ‘O2’ may have been an edge-of-the-seat survival drama. But it largely isn’t.
Travelling is memorable not simply due to the vacation spot, however because of the journey. Bus journeys, as an illustration, are particular due to the various form of individuals en path to a vacation spot.
Parvathy (Nayanthara) and her son, Veera (YouTube star Ritvick), who has a respiratory dysfunction, are embarking on one such journey. So is a politician who has misplaced elections, a person whose love has been rejected by the woman’s household, and a policeman concerned in a shady deal.
It is a six-hour journey – from Coimbatore to Kochi – however this group, together with another characters, get caught in a landslide. Will they have the ability to escape?
The advantage of O2 is that it doesn’t waste plenty of time in setting issues up. Barring an emotional mother-son tune, which contributes in direction of showcasing their camaraderie (which is improbable), it jumps straight into the premise: how a gaggle of strangers offers with a life-threatening scenario?
O2
Cast: Nayanthara, Ritvick
Director: GK Viknesh
Storyline: A gaggle of passengers in a bus journey get caught in a landslide
On paper, O2 comes throughout as a survivor drama with fascinating parts. But, such a topic wanted much more rigidity to work. After its preliminary setup, O2 turns into very like Squid Game, which too showcased how people react to sure conditions thrown at them and the way group dynamics work. But right here, the characters caught contained in the bus are a tad too many – with every of them having a number of issues – that we cease caring for them, not like a Helen (2019) that focussed on a single individual’s travails.
The mother-son relationship is endearing certainly however that is not going to assist us be invested the entire time. The love angle a few couple is weak, as is the politician who’s at all times pissed off on the scenario he is in.
Director GK Viknesh manages to throw in some fascinating sequences within the second half, particularly the sequences during which some individuals within the group get offended. The cinematography (Thamizh Azhagan) and composer Vishal Chandrasekar attempt to spruce up issues, however the ending appears too handy. Much like Hollywood movie Oxygen (2021), O2 additionally brings to gentle how essential respiratory is, and the way we take oxygen as a right, however all that is not sufficient to make it a gripping survival drama.
O2 is at the moment streaming on Disney + Hotstar
Source: www.thehindu.com
