First things first. This is not a review. This is my take on Orange starring Ram Charan and Genelia and directed by Bhaskar. This moment also warrants me to appreciate Ram Charan who instead of getting overpowered by the stardom brought by his mega success Magadheera and drawn into the vicious circle of fans and stardom took up a different and sensitive love story which will no way boost his mega image and stardom. I should appreciate Bhaskar for taking up a subject which will rarely be taken by a successful director. The best part of the film is absence of dream sequences and item numbers and depending mostly on situational songs that elevate the plot. Let me get into the plot and concept now.
Do you believe in love forever?
Do you think love wades with time?
Is true love possible?
I am sure these are some questions that haunt most of us at some point of time or other. These are very complex questions which sometimes question the existence of relationships and of course the same questions bother Ram, the protagonist in the movie. Result of which he believes in short term love. He believes that love is longterm fades away and if you want to relish true love, it can happen only in short term. His belief is based on his past experiences and the hero has already broken up with 9 girls and meets his 10th girl Janu, played by chirpy Genelia who believes in life time love. Its the usual boy meets girl and Ram who believes in giving unlimited love and surprises make Janu propose to him and ask for the unlimited love for the lifetime and Janu is in for a surprise when Ram says he cant love her for lifetime and can love for short time as he doesn't believe in longterm love. The rest of the story is all about who convinces whom.
The film starts slowly and the first 15 minutes is a let down. While Director tried to establish Ram and Genelia's character,the introduction scenes are Genelia's character is a total let down as she irritates with her giggles to the core. I didn't see anyone in the packed theater to her histrionics while proposing to the three guys. No one understood why she is so desperate and at this point, director missed to establish her character. After she proposes and Ram disposes, she desperately tries to get rid of Ram but couldn't as she is drawn towards him by his charm. She realizes that she has to find her love for life and her transformation from a girl who wants to select love by way of chits to try and find love for life is not really convincing and there is nothing much she has done except realizing from one lecture of Ram that she doesn't know what type of person she wants to love her. She in bits gets convinced with her mother and others that there is no love or true love left in all those so called love stories and Ram is the guy whom she wants to love. But again her condition is life long love. In fact the entire story hits dead end once she realizes that she wants Ram. By then even Ram realizes that separation is not the only solution and he needs to keep loving to understand love. I suppose the director didn't understand how to take the plot forward at this point and Ram keeps asking Janu what she wants and she doesn't answer. According to me,the first 15 minutes and the last 15 minutes is the problem in the story and if you leave that, the rest is absolutely a pleasure.
The Flashback episode of Ram is done very well with Shahzahn Padamsee as his lover. Though this is targeted to convince us what made Ram change himself, the scenes are truly out of the real life. The possessiveness shown in Shahzahn's eyes truly represents the adolescent love. Ram did well when realizes that he has started loosing his identity and lying for the sake of love and his expressions of disappointment and getting something he didn't want when her parents approve of their love is too good. I am sure during this episode most of the viewers would have seen themselves on the screen.
How many times would you have felt that you are loving the feeling of falling in love than truly falling in love?
How many times would you have lied or done something that you never wanted to do just to keep your lover happy?
How many times would you have been uncomfortable leaving your mobile with your girlfriend without fearing that she could peep in?
How many times would you have not felt happy when you achieved your goal?
Ram's quest for true love where you need not lie, compromise or fear is truly understandable but it should not have been confused with short term or long term love. In my opinion, the director should have focused himself on true love than short term love because the logic of short term love is not really convincing.
Ram Charan did his part extremely well and he is full of love in this film. He is seen in bits and pieces in various shades and various ages and I think he did well. His eyes in some scenes are really amazing and it expresses love he wants to. He did his dances well and none of the dances have any heavy steps that his fans expect him to do. The fights are good and the skydiving scene is done well. For Genelia, its an extension from what she has played in bommarillu but the bubbliness ends once she proposes to Ram. Genelia looks good in bits and pieces and she looks old in few shots. He looks in those shots are negative for this film and even her costumes in those shots didn't elevate her character. Brahmanadam did well as Puppy and avasarala is decent. Praneeth did well and Kishore is OK. Special mention to real life couple manjula( Superstar Krishna's daughter and Mahesh babu's sister) and sanjay who acted as Ram's sister and brother in law. We could see chemistry between them. Nagababu did well.
The canvas is beautiful and the cinematographers Rajasekhar and Kiran pictured beautiful Sydney very well. The music from Harris Jayaraj is good but the background score is just decent. In Love stories, the BGM plays a very vital role but in this movie, its just subtle. On the whole Bhaskar did a decent attempt to try a difficult subject and we would need more directors who could try and attempt such complex subjects.
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