After an excruciating delay OG’s sky-high hyped trailer dropped on Monday afternoon. The trailer is what fans have been craving for: A bloodbath and Pawan Kalyan at the centre of it.
OG’s trailer sketches the rise of Omi Bhau, played by a menacing Emraan Hashmi with snake symbolism. Omi isn’t just another stock villain, he throttles politicians, bullies the powerful and sets his sights on Prakash Raj’s Satya Dada, a respectable figure in Bombay. Amid this violence, a poor family becomes collateral damage, with Sriya Reddy’s Geetha caught in the crossfire. After enough suffering, word finally reaches the man in exile, Ojas Gambheera.
Enter Pawan Kalyan, storming back from a peaceful Japanese setting with his wife Kanmani (Priyanka Arul Mohan) and a little daughter. He announces his return in style, “Coming to Bombay. Watch out for your heads,” as we see Kalyan winging a Katana, an automatic rifle with unrelenting rage. The actor hasn’t looked this feral in decades.
The trailer’s cinematography and editing too seems to have an intent to have a blast with all the violence. The final frames, where Kalyan roars his own name, “Ojas Gambheera… Ojas Gambheera,” over a heap of vanquished enemies, are pure vintage Pawan, the kind of kinetic mania fans last saw in his earlier action avatars.
More than Kalyan’s energy, OG trailer’s muscle comes from SS Thaman’s music as he switches gears layering ‘Hungry Cheetah’, ‘Firestorm’ and Japanese-coded rock-inspired riffs. Visually, cinematographers Ravi K Chandran and Manoj Paramahamsa bathe the narrative in strong contrasts, Eastern warm tones, neon nightscapes, rain-slicked alley fights.
Bollywood star Emraan Hashmi plays Omi Bhau, marking his Telugu debut while Priyanka Mohan takes on the female lead. The ensemble cast also includes heavyweights like Prakash Raj, Arjun Das, Shaam and Harish Uthaman.
Produced by DVV Entertainment, OG has been mounted on a massive scale, with expectations now reaching fever pitch. The filmis gearing up to release worldwide on September 25. The film already crossed $2 million in US pre-sales, setting a record for Kalyan.
