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Murder, intrigue, suspense: ‘Monica O My Darling’ aims at giving you thrills and spills, and pretty much hits its mark.

Robotics expert Jayant Arkhedkar (Rajkummar Rao) is an ambitious man, determined to put his mundane life behind him. When the film opens, it shows him heading straight to the stratosphere, hoicked to a top job in his company, the founder of said company gaga over him, and daughter of said founder enamoured of him. ‘Naukri, ladki, sab kuchh’. You’d think, as would Jayant, that all will henceforth be a bed of roses. But as we know, the best laid plans of mice and men, and in this instance a few reptilian creatures, can and do, go awry. Murders are committed, things go south, and hit rockbottom with an almighty clang.

Director Vasan Bala’s penchant for whackiness (‘Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota’) is evident right from the beginning. A gruesome killing is served as an aperitif, even before we’ve properly settled down. And for the main course, we get misbegotten lust, femme fatales who sway to the one of the most famous cabaret numbers in Hindi cinema (Piya Tu Ab Toh Aaja), and a killer whose biggest achilles heel is his vanity.

The proceedings remind you a bit of twisty James Hadley Chase novels. All characters are immoral or plain crooked. And so of course, there’s a flash of ‘Johnny Gaddar’, Sriram Raghavan’s terrific thriller about a heist gone wrong. You can see traces of other well-known films: the director and writer Yogesh Chandekar are clearly Bollywood fanboys, but when they put their paws on an immortal scene from ‘Maqbool’, you want to tell them to back off. Some things can not be improved.

And that’s the thing with ‘Monica’. If your USP is being whacked-out, then you have to make sure that nothing slackens. This is even underlined in the film, when one character says to another, ‘dheel nahin dene ka, tight rakhne ka’, or words to that effect. But that ‘dheel’ does occur in bits, especially when a pudgy accountant with a glad eye (Bagavathi Perumal) overstays his welcome on screen, and your attention starts to wander.

It’s not like this interesting ensemble cast isn’t working hard to keep a hold on you: Rajkummar Rao is reliably solid, Sikandar Kher livens things up, Sukant Goel as a resentful colleague feeling done in by his co-workers is appropriately shifty. Akansha Ranjan as the rich girl who feels she owns her man leaves a mark, as does Zayn Marie Khan, even if her character is a trifle vague around the edges.

Huma Qureshi plays the titular character Monica Macchado, the oomphy secretary who serves the robotics company with a great deal of zeal, and spreads her favours amongst so many senior male employees that you lose track. And then there is ACP Naidu ( Radhika Apte ) who is assigned to the case, who strides about flinging orders at a male subordinate. Apte has such a blast with the female version of the standard quirky cop that you wish she had more to do.

Every time things slowed down, I would stifle impatience, but then they would leap up again, and it would be fine. On the whole, and despite those slow spots, and a few twists which we figure long before the characters do, with a cracker of a beginning and an end which slithers in most unexpectedly, ‘Monica’ ends up being a fun watch.

Monica O My Darling movie cast: Rajkummar Rao, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte, Akansha Ranjan, Bagavathi Perumal, Zayn Marie Khan, Sukant Goel, Sikandar Kher Monica O My Darling movie director: Vasan Bala Monica O My Darling movie rating: 2.5 stars

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Monica, O My Darling Review: Wildly Entertaining Neo-Noir Comic Thriller

Monica, o my darling review : rajkummar rao is never off the boil. huma qureshi fleshes out monica in all her splendour. radhika apte takes to the role of a chatty policewoman..

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Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Radhika Apte, Huma Qureshi, Sikandar Kher, Sukant Goel

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Rating: 4 Stars (out of 5)

Cups of tea have never been as portentous as they are in a sequence that plays out about an hour into in Monica, O My Darling. The eponymous character - a CEO's secretary - makes the chai for her boss and the company's chief tech developer. The latter baulks. He fears a deadly slip between the cup and the lip.

Director Vasan Bala and screenwriter Yogesh Chandekar inform this stray moment with a delicious mix of wit, wickedness and whimsicality that defines the neo-noir comic thriller as a whole. Full of knowing winks thrown the audience's way, Netflix's Monica, O My Darling , is a wildly entertaining film packed with twists and turns that keep on giving until the final fadeout.

It is delightfully tricksy, transfixing concoction that probes the goings-on in a Pune-based company, a veritable viper's pit where nothing is what it seems. The film taps the nuts and bolts of the genre and other necessary tools to produce a movie experience that, sometimes playfully and sometimes with a sudden grab at the scruff of the neck, pushes the audience into the innards of a moral black hole where people caught in a bind continually draw upon their wiles but find no way out.

Behind the manipulations and manic measures that the warped minds resort to, a privileged lot battle it out with the not-so-privileged who not only seek their pound of flesh but also figure out ways to get it.

Rajkummar Rao plays robotics expert Jayant Arkhedkar, a small-town lad who has wormed his way into the corporate charmed circle. Branded a pretender and a parasite by a rival within the company, he is drawn into a fiendish conspiracy that can only spell trouble. Determined not to have the rug pulled from under his feet, he sinks deeper and deeper into a dark rabbit hole.

Huma Qureshi is Monica Machado, the top honcho's secretary, a femme fatale who employs her guiles to hold her ground on a slippery slope. And Radhika Apte, given an "and above all" billing a la Pran in Hindi movies of another era, is ACP Naidu, wisecracks her way through the grind of policing.

Out here, the line separating the acceptable from the dubious is thin, nay non-existent. While those in the top echelons of the Unicorn Group of Companies fight to protect the cushy turf they believe they have deservedly earned for keeps, the "invisible people" - the male protagonist is acutely conscious of what it means to be one of them - chip away at the edges of an impenetrable power structure and look for a way in.

In this unseemly war, all is fair and there is little scope for love, not even between brother and sister. There are two sets of them in Monica, O My Darling . The CEO's slimy son Nishikant (Sikandar Kher) and his daughter Nikki (Akansha Ranjan Kapoor) make no bones about their hostility towards each other. Jay and his younger sibling Shalu (Zayn Marie Khan), also a Unicorn employee, are not exactly at daggers drawn but one is wary of the other at the best of times.

Aided by a terrific screenplay and a tremendous cast of actors, Vasan Bala assembles all that a twisted thriller should ideally have and then adds his own singular flourishes in the form of wonderfully organic, homegrown elements fuelled by an unbridled love for popular cinema and a sensibility that can turn familiar into fresh with minimum fuss.

Monica, O My Darling is a rare treat in the context of Bollywood, which does not have a genuine film noir tradition. Is this film as good as Ek Hasina Thi and Johnny Gaddar , the first two entries in the oeuvre of Sriram Raghavan, a writer-director to whom Vasan Bala acknowledges a debt upfront? The answer is yes.

Venomous cobras and lethal robotics have significant roles in Monica, O My Darling. That is hardly surprising considering what the film is seeking to project - humans that are as hazardous as reptiles and as machine-like as robots.

Monica, O My Darling begins with a prelude in which a murder is committed by a jealous lover (Sukant Goel) who takes manual control of a robot in Unicorn's tech lab and eliminates a co-worker who reveals his desire to marry Shalu. The casualty is blamed on an accident. Safety officer Faridi Baig (Faisal Rashid) takes the fall and loses his job.

The audience is aware of the identity of the man behind the machine, but none of the characters in the film has any way of knowing. How, six months on, they discover the many layers of truth, falsehood and subterfuge that begin to unravel as the company is rocked by a series of murders.

Jay has the ears of the ageing CEO Satyanarayan Adhikari (Vijay Kenkre). He also happens to be the boyfriend of the latter's daughter Nikki even as he has a fling with Monica. As things turn messier by the day, Jay faces the danger of being knocked off his pre-eminent perch.

This gentleman from the fictional village of Angola (it certainly isn't the central African country) is appointed to the board of directors and given a share in the company's profits. The move puts him in the crosshairs of his top management colleagues - the boss' disgruntled son, the CFO Arvind Manivannan (Bagavathi Perumal) and Tamang Rana (Shiva Rindani).

The biggest trouble for Jay comes via a pregnant Monica. Blackmail, a complicated murder plot and a well-laid plan gone awry lead to a series of deaths. Neither the audience nor the characters know if these murders are connected with each other or with the one at the start of the film.

The reveals are scattered across the entire film. Even when it is indicated who might be responsible for the rising body count, the guessing game and the surprises do not stop. In fact, the more the film discloses, the more steam it gathers. Nothing that is discovered or divulged as the plot unfolds is bathed in bright, clear daylight. Doubts persist even when the crucial cards appear to be on the table.

Cinephilia is the binding agent in Monica, O My Darling . Beginning with the Asha Bhosle song from 1971's Caravan that gives it its titles, the film makes many hat-tips to a wide spectrum of movie lore - from Bates Motel to Captain Zattack, a character in 1991's Hum played by an actor who is part of the supporting cast here.

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Vasan Bala extracts top-notch performances from his actors. Rajkummar Rao is never off the boil as a chameleon driven by an instinct for survival. Huma Qureshi fleshes out Monica in all her splendour, a woman who revels in twirling men around her fingers. Radhika Apte takes to the role of a chatty policewoman who is always a step ahead of the rest like a fish to water.

The smartly off-kilter Monica, O My Darling , adapted from Japanese writer Keigo Higashino's 1989 mystery novel Heart of Brutus, is an intriguing, enthralling work that deftly turns pulp into a precious cinematic pearl. In short, it is a not-to-be-missed marvel.

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Monica O My Darling movie review: This Rajkummar Rao film tries too hard to impress

Monica o my darling review: rajkummar rao, huma qureshi, radhika apte's performances aren't enough to save this vasan bala thriller..

A neo-noir, crime comedy thriller that also doubles up as a murder mystery, Monica O My Darling isn't your usual Bollywood commercial potboiler. Or at least that's what you'd like to believe until you actually sit through and watch this 2-hour-10-minutes long film and realise that it's so Bollywoodised that you just can't get over the plot twists and predictability of events, which make this Vasan Bala directorial a fun yet average watch. Average because the moment it was revealed at the film's teaser launch that Andhadhun director Sriram Raghavan was to helm the film but Bala took over after five years, one expected a similar experience. Unfortunately, despite having Raghavan's flavour throughout, Monica O My Darling doesn't even come close to Andhadhun's magic. (Also read: Uunchai movie review: A heartwarming tale of friendship and loss)

The story revolves around Jayant Arkhedkar (Rajkummar Rao), a robotics expert and an ambitious young man, who is dating Nikki (Akansha Ranjan Kapoor) hoping that one day they'd marry and he would rule Unicorn group owned by her father Satyanarayan Adhikari (Vijay Kenkre). Even after a promotion that upsets Nishikant Adhikari (Sikander Kher), it's not a smooth road for Jayant, as he gets into a fling with company's secretary Monica Machado (Huma Qureshi). Little does Jayant know that he's not the only prey Monica has her eyes on. She continues to blackmail Nishikant and company's account team member Arvind (Bagavathi Perumal). How these three plan Monica's murder and instead land in a conspiracy themselves is what forms the crux of the film. Then enters ACP Naidu (Radhika Apte), who takes her own sweet time with the investigation thus making it evident that there's more to what meets the eye.

An adaptation of Japanese novel Burutasu No Shinzou written by Keigo Higashino, Monica O My Darling has all the ingredients of a perfect suspense thriller but sees a major setback in the execution department. After a rigorous build up in the first half, the film nosedives after the interval with murders without any logic happening at a speed that's difficult to fathom. Moreover, too many back stories might help take the story forward but after a point, they all start to look confusing and you don't know what to really focus on. And I don't see a point in making a film so predictable that the number of scenes and twists that you can predict actually make you want to give yourself a pat on your back. I don't know what the makers were thinking while writing those portions. I mean are they really doubting audience intelligence or making it way too easier for their story to unfold? Only they would know.

While Bala's direction falters at places, Yogesh Chandekar's story manages to keep you hooked for most part. The narrative has the perfect pace but it's hit by way too many roadblocks on the way, resulting in a bumpy ride. Dialogues that Bala has co-written with Chandekar are quirky, peppered with comic tone, perhaps the high point of the film that can qualify as a dark comedy. I particularly liked the sequence when the men are planning Monica's murder. Oh yes, they sign a murderer's agreement also. Of course, even killers can't trust each other.

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To say that Monica O My Darling is a family entertainer and that all movie goers would like it would be assuming a bit too much for it will have select takers. And the way makers have taken a risk by keeping somewhat open ending will leave many confused to say the least. Well, after all, not every suspense thriller and a murder mystery can turn out to be award-winning Andhadhun. With Monica O My Darling, slightly better direction in terms of where the story is headed and how it was narrated could have helped its case.

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Oh My Darling OTT release date: When, where to watch Anikha Surendran, Melvin G Babu’s romcom

Anikha Surendran’s Oh My Darling is currently streaming online, here’s where to watch the movie

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Last Updated: 09.29 AM, May 05, 2023

Actress Anikha Surendran’s first Malayalam movie as a heroine, Oh My Darling, is currently streaming online. The movie, which is helmed by debutant Alfred D Samuel, had hit theatres in February and was a much-anticipated OTT release, especially among the young crowd due to the popularity that both its lead actors – Anikha and Melvin – enjoys.

The movie, which released online on May 5, also has Johny Antony, Lena, Fukru, Dain Davis, Mukesh, Manju Pillai, Nandu and Vijayaraghavan in pivotal roles. Scripted by Jineesh K Joy, the movie’s trailer initially piqued curiosity for its visuals that resembled K-Dramas as well as a Korean song rendered by Linda Quero.

Also read: Anikha Surendran on Oh My Darling: Aesthetically, it’s a stark contrast from usual Malayalam films | Exclusive  

What is Oh My Darling about?

The movie, which starts out as a romcom, revolves around youngsters Jenny and Joel. The latter, who leads a carefree life, is forced to re-evaluate his life choices after Jenny reveals she’s pregnant. How the duo tackle the situation for the plot. The film, however, isn’t a straight romcom as it also has several twists in its latter half.

Also read: Oh My Darling review: Anikha Surendran, Melvin-starrer probably has the most absurd take on unintended pregnancy  

In an earlier interview with OTTplay, Anikha, who had previously starred in Malayalam movies such as 5 Sundarikal, Bhaskar The Rascal and The Great Father, told us, “When the scriptwriter narrated it to me, he was clear that it wasn’t a realistic movie. It’s very cinematic. He took a lot of effort to describe how the movie would be shot. The movie also has a very important message and an emotional element that the audience would understand when they watch the movie.”

The actress plays the role of a “fun-loving, bubbly” character in the first half of the movie, which was shot within a month and has music composed by Shaan Rahman.

When and where to watch Oh My Darling?

Oh My Darling is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

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Oh My Darling Movie Review

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• Alfred D\' Samuel
• Supporting Actress:
• Manju Pillai
• Supporting Actor:
• Anikha Surendran
• Melvin G Babu
• Johny Antony

Oh My Darling revolves around a young couple, Jenny (Anikha Surendran) and Joel (Melvin G Babu). Jenny is a college student, and Joel is a 24-year-old BTech graduate who wants to pursue an animation career. Both are deeply in love, and everything is smooth in their relationship. However, things take a turn when Jenny gets pregnant. She decides to continue with the pregnancy. Jenny is firm on her decision not to abort the pregnancy. 

What will Joel do now? Will he leave Jenny? If not, then what decisions will he make to deal with this unexpected situation? What will be the reaction of the couple’s parents?

Star Performance

After his film Jo and Jo, Melvin G Babu shines in this film, too. His expressions, body language, and dialogue are appealing to the viewers. In the initial scenes, his immature acts appear to be impressive. As the film reaches the climax, Melvin seems to run the whole film alone. He gave the best performance as compared to the other cast.

Anikha Surendran looks pretty on the screen. She shows all the emotions and expressions according to the situation. Her acting when she decides to continue with the pregnancy is outstanding. Mukesh and Johny Antony look decent in the character of the fathers of Jenny and Joel. Dain Davis and Fukru did everything required.

The first half entertains the viewers with romance and comedy. It is full of the beautiful love moments between Joel and Jenny. There are also various pleasant songs. In the second half, the film moves from romance and comedy to a seriousness. The second half is about how Joel deals with the unexpected situation and the family bonding. The ending is very positive. From the title song, it is clear that Jenny is a BTS fan. 

Director Alfred D. Samuel has crafted all the romantic and comedic scenes perfectly. The camerawork by Ansar Shah enhances the love elements. Shaan Rahman’s songs became famous even before release. The film also discusses a medical condition called Denial. Denial syndrome happens when our mind rejects all the inappropriate situations. Oh My Darling is not just a romantic comedy film. It also shows various issues that society hardly discusses.

What’s There?

• A sweet love story of a young couple.

• Comedy scenes.

• The film turns to a serious mode in the second half.

• Beautiful Camera work.

• Shaan Rahman’s songs are outstanding.

• Melvin G. Babu’s performance.

• Message-oriented film.

What’s Not There?

• Poor performance by some supporting actors.

• Some comedic scenes fail.

• Weak climax.

Oh My Darling beautifully shows a teenage love story. The first half entertains, and the second half turns sensitive. People who see Korean Dramas and songs will like this film.

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