Star Solid: Pawan Kalyan, Emraan Hashmi, Priyanka Mohan, Arjun Das, Prakash Raj, Sriya Reddy
Director: Sujeeth
What’s Good: There’s not a boring second right here.
What’s Unhealthy: The extra important second half is simply too hurried but surprisingly labored.
Lavatory Break: You possibly can miss the occasional massacre.
Watch or Not?: Pawan Kalyan followers, please head for the following present!
Language: Telugu (Dubbed in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada).
Obtainable On: Theatrical launch
Runtime: 154 Minutes
Consumer Ranking:
One other ‘pan-Indian’ Telugu launch, They Name Him OG, follows a daily action-from-South-Indian-cinema template the place the motion and violence get extra graphic every time. The threadbare plot contains Satya Dada (Prakash Raj), who owns the Mumbai port, and a vicious villain, Mirajkar (Tej Sapru), who was as soon as his good friend and desires to rule over Mumbai.
The bone of competition is a cargo of RDX despatched by Omi (Emraan Hashmi) to explode Mumbai on the occasion of a Dubai don. As soon as this goes lacking, a battle of ‘hits’ fairly than wits ensues with our bodies unfold in a quantum harking back to the latest however actual The Bengal Recordsdata.
Our hero, additionally named Gambheera aside from OG or Ojas (Pawan Kalyan), has been obliged to Satya Dada previously. Nevertheless, after an accident of kinds in Satya’s household, he chooses to maneuver away from them. Nevertheless, he’s their go-to particular person when in hassle. Ultimately, we aren’t clear whether or not he’s a gangster or a mere skilled samurai entangled in depraved plots and savage folks.
And so altercations blaze by way of the movie as increasingly more characters get mentally blocked of their private motives, that are primarily about greed, vendetta, and extra. Lastly, it’s OG time to return, and naturally, good will win over evil, however evil thinks it could possibly resurface in a potential sequel.
They Name Him OG Film Evaluation: Script Evaluation
Written by Sujeeth (whose final pan-Indian movie, Saaho, misplaced out on its house floor however is claimed to have labored in Bihar!), the script is an orgy of sauce…Oops! I imply blood spilling, and one may go dizzy counting the garments and pores and skin (of each the residing and the corpses) in addition to objects, together with partitions, splattered with crimson, and decapitated heads rolling like unchecked marbles on display screen.
For reduction, there may be the household angle of Dr. Kanmani (Priyanka Mohan), who loves our hero, marries him, and provides start to a cute daughter. They relocate (an absurd premise) in order that they are often at peace after our hero is attacked by Japanese males throughout his Aikido (martial arts) courses and Kanmani is pregnant. However that makes no distinction.
There’s a fiery girl, Geetha (Sriya Reddy), Satya Dada’s sister-on-law, who valiantly combats the baddies. A number of different characters are thrown in, and we have now the villain’s son, Jimmy (Sudev Nair), an obnoxious animal, if one, who makes merry together with his bloody excesses for some time. To not communicate of an enormous misunderstanding that Geetha’s Arjun (Arjun Das) has concerning the hero.
A side-plot of explosives being positioned in essential Mumbai venues in 1993 (the real-time Mumbai was hit) and each being neutralized in time provides a ‘faux actuality’ really feel to the pre-climax.
They Name Him OG Film Evaluation: Star Efficiency
Pawan Kalyan turns into a unique form of hero from a lot of the different South Indian icons. Firstly, his expressions are fairly restricted for a star, his motion is essentially weaponry-based (weapons, swords, and many others.), and lastly, he may have put extra efforts to make the agility look real.
Prakash Raj and Arjun Das have sympathetic roles and rating in locations. Sriya Reddy and Sudev Nair (who seems eerily like a member of Hindi villain Ajit’s household!) fare higher. Tej Sapru is alright. Priyanka Mohan will get no scope, and even her cute daughter does higher. Jackie Shroff has a blink-and-miss position, and Upendra Limaye is wasted. Abhimanyu Singh passes muster.
Lastly, Emraan Hashmi because the cool villain is spectacular in elements, although I most well-liked him in Tiger 3.
They Name Him OG Film Evaluation: Route, Music
Sujeeth goes all out for masala and doesn’t trouble to be progressive and even unique. There may be over-reliance on splendid technicians like DOPs Ravi Okay. Chandran and Manoj Paramahamsa, and editor Navin Nooli (who himself may have been extra alert within the second half), and naturally, the motion administrators and VFX crew.
Thaman S’ songs simply come and go, however he makes his background rating sound virtually as fury-laden and violent because the movie!
They Name Him OG Film Evaluation: The Final Phrase
Relentless in its motion mode, this one’s a feast for Pawan Kalyan’s followers. For the remainder, it’s typical template-driven fare.
Two and a half stars!
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They Name Him OG launched on September 25, 2025.
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