The only thing left to find out is whether the film will be true to its concept or sell out for a happy ending.Īnd, in this post-truth world, can our films stop normalising stalking? How is it okay to take pictures of a woman whom you don’t even know? And right after this, we see the hero of the film trying to impress the same woman by slapping a man who harassed another girl.Red Lot Parking -I-85 North to Exit 46 A (Mallard Creek Church Road) -Right on Mallard Creek Church Road -Left at North Tryon Road (Hwy 29 north) -Right onto Morehead Road, speedway parking on right -I-85 South to Exit 48 (I-485 / Rock Hill) -Exit 32 and turn left on to Hwy 29 north/Tryon -Right at Morehead Road, speedway parking on right. The suspense, one of the most important elements of a thriller, is absent as you can easily guess the outcome of the film.
The female lead comes off as an unintelligent, scared and a timid girl. Okka Kshanam has not been sincere to the genre by adding antagonists who have no screen presence or humour that is a force-fit in places. This one dialogue has so much potential but has been left under-utilised. How would you feel when you realise that your life has a set pattern, same as someone else and you have no say over how you lead your life? “Someone’s past could be your present,” says the professor played by Jaya Prakash. The filmmaker introduces his audience to the concept by giving the example of how Lincoln and Kennedy both became presidents of USA exactly 100 years apart, how both were murdered in the presence of their wives and other coincidences that make it so similar that it is actually eerie, but the plot is different. The director has used the bit where a professor explains the theory of parallel life and gives the same example - of Lincoln and Kennedy. There have been questions about how Okka Kshanam is a remake of a Korean film, Parallel Life. Instead, we see an over-the-top song that dramatises the situation, complete with Jeeva turning to alcohol for help. While we expect to watch a tauter second half, that is not what we get. These 15 minutes happens to be the best stretch in the film. He decides to throw the punch right before the interval. The way director Vi Anand has chosen to draw out the similarities between his four characters leaves one in splits. After observing suspicious goings-on, Jo and Jeeva decide to investigate who their neighbors really are and this is where the plot gets interesting.įor a few minutes there, you might even think that this is probably a comedy and not a crime thriller. We meet Srinivas (Srinivas Avasarala) and Swathi (Seerat Kapoor), Jo’s neighbours, whom she watches from the balcony, for watching people is her hobby.
As the film’s two leads, Jo and Jeeva, get to know each other, we are left wondering if this film is indeed a crime thriller. From here on, the film drags for about 30 minutes. Right before this, there is a buildup, leading us to believe that not all this is as it seems. Jo (Surbhi) and Jeeva (Allu Sirish) meet by chance in Orbit Mall’s parking lot.
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