Firstly, O My Friend gives you a good reference to Chrianjeevi’s movie ‘Iddaru Mitrulu’, which accentuates the value of a true friend and friendship. Although the subject line is a decent one, the way debutant director Venu Sriram handled was very dreary. Venu could not appropriately execute a middling script, and failed to customize the movie to the contemporary audience in terms of treatment. The conflict point was albeit strong, it could not take off to a prodigious level.
Siddharth’s fervor for music, Shruti Hassan’s accountability over Siddharth, etc. are all age-old scenes which people have earlier seen several movies and there’s nothing new in O My Friend. In fact, the scenes and the conversations between Siddharth and Shruti Hassan were not exciting. We’ve seen in movies like ‘Nuvve Kavali’, ‘Iddaru Mitrulu’, etc. Director Venu was just banking on the star casting and age old theme of emphasizing the value of friendship and messed it up completely.
There’s nothing that keeps you going in Oh My Friend movie. In fact, the first half of the movie is almost like a documentary on ‘Friendship’. Venu got as great chance to build something new on this antique script. But he botched-up so badly that the movie became a testing time for the audience and not for Siddharth.
