After a loong tiring sunday class, My mind was cluttered with emotions of happiness, sadness, irritation, & heartbreak. I desperately felt the need to go out & clear my mind. And as I was thinking where to go.. my college buddy Ajay called me for a movie that evening, together we went to OM, a kannada movie re-released at a theatre nearby.
Released in 1995, directed by superstar Upendra, Om was a MASSIVE BLOCKBUSTER kannada movie in those days, It became such a hit in kannada film industry, that the makers decided not to sell the movie through video cassettes or to any kannada channels, but decided to re-release the movie every 5 years. And guess what? the movie continues to give competition to other new movies in terms of collection & runs housefull everytime it is re-released. Here's an abstraction of the movie...
Our hero, a good innocent, studious, intelligent, brahmin is provoked by a girl to fall in love with her,to which, like all boys do.. he agrees, then girl tells hero to fight the baddies, he does it. then girl backfires & tells she did it for revenge, keeps a fitting to police that hero killed all the baddies, police nab hero. hero is bailed out by a famous rowdy & offered a lucrative job in rowdyism with incentives, hero rejects the offer & seeks to find out why that girl backfired, to this girl tells a small flashback, in which hero is indirectly involved in sucide committed by girl's brother. Hero tells Situation made him to do that, girl disagrees & shoo's away hero, hero's family throws him out of the house.. hero becomes mad. the famous rowdy comes again with the job offer, hero takes up the offer. What follows next is hero making a big name in rowdyism & taking revenge on heroine for betraying him by beating up guys who talk with her, barging in & spoiling heroine's engagenment, burning her stylish body revealing clothes like shorts, burning her tv, car etc. boy! he destroys everything in heroine's home.. makes her cry half of the movie, Finally heroine unable to bear this torture.. falls for him. Wow! Wat a way to woo a girl!! :) but wait.. now hero backfires & tells heroine to avoid him. but heroine resists & tells hero to quit his job i.e stop rowdyism. But hero wont.. so heroine stops eating food. she becomes de-hydrated, gets admitted to hospital, doctor is helpless to save her. Now hero steps in & agrees to quit his job, but there's a problem.. our hero had a lot of jealous colleagues who were planning to finish him off & boy!! were they lucky to get this oppurtunity.. now all baddy colleagues attack the hospital where heroine is & fight injuring hero & burning heroine's face with acid. finally one of the big hearted baddy colleague realizes his mistake & lets hero, heroine live.. by giving him the pink slip. In the end.. our hero starts his own business by setting up a military hotel serving chitrana, idli, dosas, tea, coffee etc. & poses infront of the hotel with his heroine & two kids.. Happy ending..
The songs, dialogues are excellent. The movie is a proof to superstar upendra's excellent directorial skills, with all those twists & turns, wats more he had roped in real-life Rowdies into the movie.. All in all a great movie, definitely worth watching..
Good deepak
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