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Ohh My Dog review: Amit Rai’s film is an ode to empathy and adventure
Ohh My Dog review: Amit Rai’s film is an ode to empathy and adventure
Amit Rai's Ohh My Dog, an homage to Satyajit Ray's Felu Da adventures, follows a ten-year-old boy Apu in Assam's Dibrugarh and a stray dog named Oscar (played by Bruno) in Bihar…
The Story in Brief
Amit Rai's Ohh My Dog, an homage to Satyajit Ray's Felu Da adventures, follows a ten-year-old boy Apu in Assam's Dibrugarh and a stray dog named Oscar (played by Bruno) in Bihar who separately investigate disappearances. Apu's dog Momo goes missing; Oscar's best friend Prince, a migrant labourer boy, vanishes. The two tracks run parallel across 150 minutes as the child and canine bust criminal rackets and defeat corrupt cops. The film, streaming now, stars Maahi Rai, Pankaj Tripathi as Prince's tuition teacher, and Sulakhyana Baruah.
Thefederal.com notes the film stands out for its gritty, unembellished depiction of small-town and migrant labourer life, littered streets, grimy alleys, and footpath sleepers, unlike Bollywood's usual glamorous settings. Hungarian cinematographer Máté Herbai's camera stays rooted in reality. However, the review adds the investigation lacks high points and the second half loses steam, particularly the Oscar thread.
The Indian Opinion
The film's homages to Satyajit Ray's Felu Da stories are plain, but the real story here is Bollywood finally showing the underbelly of migrant labour, littered streets, grimy interiors, child workers, without glamour. Critics are calling it heartwarming, but the bigger question is whether audiences will accept an unvarnished Indian town on screen when they are used to sanitised backdrops. A test to watch: box office in small cities, where the realism hits closest to home.
Source: thefederal.com
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