Rudra and Mithila Palkar play a couple whose love story is like the movies, and yet, a lot like life outside the movies. The result is an easy-breezy watch. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.
If Gautham Vasudev Menon dialled down the intensity and increased the candyfloss-ness of one of his romances, we’d get something like Oho Endhan Baby. It’s not just that Vaaranam Aayiram is referenced here. It’s also the unapologetic urban upper-class vibe, even if some of the characters are middle-class. Newcomer Rudra (cousin of Vishnu Vishal, this film’s producer) plays Ashwin, an aspiring director. The film is meta in fun ways. It keeps referencing actors and scenes and incidents from Tamil cinema, like the fact that Ashwin is an engineer who wants to be a filmmaker. The scenes sometimes open with captions that remind you of a screenplay, and the very structure of the film is that of a story narration. Ashwin narrates his story to a Vishnu Vishal-like star, who’s played by Vishnu Vishal. He is tired of acting in thrillers and wants to do a love story. And this star encourages this fresher, just like Vishnu Vishal has groomed Rudra for this movie.
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