Oye Mamu! review: Ruslaan Mumtaz's film doesn’t even deserve a place in the 90s

1.5/5

Story:

Rohit (Ruslaan Mumtaz) is constantly in debt. He has a nephew in Akhil (Tanay Chheda) who makes his life worse. A hopeless James goes on a journey to find Akhil in Mumbai. He goes through many unexpected situations during that time. The film explores how he grows out of those situations.

Review:

Oye Mamu! is quintessentially a commercial film. It is a movie that might have worked in the 90s but failed even in front of legends like Govinda. Since the film is made so late, it appears to be a tribute (or rather mockery) for the 90s films and Ekta Kapoor serials. Everything in the movie is over-the-top. While the storyline is too unnatural, the sound effects, as well as visual effects (including fast-forwards and random cuts), are not contributing to any good for the film.

The film is so over-the-top that even Main Prem Ki Deewani Hoon feels like a noob.

Every actor in Oye Mamu! overacts while the film is shot in slow motion and fast-forwarded with effects. Moreover, the various special effects (not VFX) might not even be an ideal situation in the early 90s.

As icing on the cake, the Vikram Singh directorial diverts from its main topic - inventing bio-diesel.

Ruslaan Mumtaz, who is in the lead in Oye Mamu!, is the typical commercial hero who does both senseless romance and action. Tanay Chheda, the second lead is unable to save the film. Even though he is a breath of fresh air, he doesn’t do much to help the script reflect on the screen well.

'Bad man' Gulshan Grover doesn’t have too much to offer either. Tiku Talsania is as good an actor as always but the script is so weak that even his character loses the plot. Asrani, who plays the police commissioner, doesn’t have much to give, however, he doesn’t disappoint too much anyway.

The film is filled with unnecessary songs with an item number coming out of the blue. The track just makes one wonder why you would be watching the film too.

The jokes are so vintage that Gulshan Grover thinks he can get away saying 'Phatte hue mauze' and the film becomes funny with that dialogue.

Oye Mamu! also shows us how women are treated by an army of men. They are constantly looked down upon and the male characters are shown dominant in the film. Even when the inspector (Kulraj Randhawa) makes you believe she is capable of fighting her own battles.

There is a fantasy scene between the inspector and James (Rohit), right after they come out of a tough situation. The song is such a disturbance when anyway the storyline wasn't going anywhere.

The taxi and shoe fight scene in the last 20 minutes of the film is the highlight of the "comedy" movie. As they say, the film delivered too little, too late.

Verdict:

Oye Mamu! lets Ruslaan Mumtaz explore his heroic side but the film is not even a bit heroic or funny for the audiences viewing it in today's time. The Vikram Singh directorial is, instead, the opposite of both things.

(Oye Mamu! is available on BookMyShow Stream)