Latest Reviews & Buzz for
ഓം ശാന്തി ഓശാന (2014)

I really liked Om Shanti Oshaana, which I watched on a flight home. Nazriya Nazim plays a young 16 year old, tomboy only daughter of a doctor and a teacher. She falls hard for a guy she meets at an amusement park. He's an older guy, and a farmer. So I gather it's an intercaste thing, but also he's Hindu (the Om Shanti), and she's Christian. Oshaana was for Palm Sunday which is a key date for her story. She tries to tell him her feelings, but he stops her, and says she's too young to say something like that to an older man. She's crushed, goes off to medical school, and they meet again 6 years later when his mother is in the hospital where she works. So we're seeing the story completely from her point of view, and what wasn't the best was her trying to change herself (start wearing saris, learn to cook, etc.) which was all very traditional. What was AWESOME, was her parents knew she would never go for an arranged marriage, and encourage her career. And THIS scene was just the ultimate. I had seen it GIF'd on Tumblr, and was the main reason I downloaded the film. Her parents joke that she would expect to visit the groom's family to check HIM out, and she then has this fantasy sequence with the bridal visit turned on its head, and Nivin serving HER tea. It's not subtitled, but she's asking him his name ("Giri") and then what he studied in school, and he demurely says, "Malayalam", which makes her laugh uproariously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Mzj3HuhQU

It's just so absolutely delicious to see the role reversal! And Nivin who was so nerdy in Bangalore Days, was SO hot in tank tops working in the fields, and riding his motorcycle around. I finally get why there are SO many tumblr GIF's of this guy! He IS all that and a bag of chips!

The actress in Om Shanti Oshaana was the same girl who was one of the three main characters in Bangalore Days, Nazriya Nazim. She is quite good, and does have that special "something." She is on screen almost the entire film, and she completely carries the film. Nivin Pauly mostly plays the strong silent type -- talk about the female gaze! He's just there to look pretty for the most part. :)