Movie Review: OK KANMANI By Mani Ratman

Rating: 4/5

Genre: Romantic

The most awaited Mani Ratnam film ‘O Kadhal Kanmini’ also known as ‘OK Kanmnai’ hit the screens on Friday. The Mani Ratnam signature film, deals with emotions and relationships between individuals.

It seems that Mani Ratnam has done it again with the romantic movie that is making it big at the box office. There is no question that lot of other filmmaker look up to Mani Ratnam and duo of Mani Ratnam and A. R. Rahman is always a success at box office.

The major highlight of “OK Kanmani” is that as cheesy it sounds, it does not have any elements of cheesiness associated with it. Again the movie is all about relationship and emotions shared between two young individual settled in modern day Mumbai city.

The story revolves around Adithya (Dulquer Salmaan) who is a digital game designer and Tara (Nithya Menen), an architect. They are career-driven individualist’s who have strong perception about their personal space and life.

Mani Ratnam portrays the lead pair very well, which is the hottest onscreen pair in South Indian cinema right now. This may be Prakash Raj’s best character after his most renowned performance in the movie “Kanjeevaram”.

The one thing that stands out is dialogues in the film because of its novelty and the director has made sure they are conveyed in the right sense. Music by A R Rahman as expected is out of this world and goes well with the movie.

While it releases in Tamil, it also comes with subtitles to the rest of India. Hope you get a chance to see it and let me know what you think of it.

Overall, “OK Kanmani” deserves to be placed among the best romantic stories ever made in Indian cinema. Hats off to Mani Ratnam for making such a great movie from a very simple story.

Here’s a sweet little secret for Bollywood fans: Mani Rantan has announced that his next film will be in Hindi! So get ready for an awesome showtime.