Oh Sukumari Movie Review: Cringe Comedy Delivers a Painful Shock
The premise is undermined by the writing, the comedy, and the screenplay, and it delivers more shock than entertainment.
Cast: Thiruveer, Aishwarya Rajesh, Srinivas Gavireddy, Aamani, Jhansi, Muralidhar Goud
Director: Bharath Dharshan
Rating: 1/5 stars
After impressing audiences with her possessive-wife act in Sankranthiki Vasthunnam, Aishwarya Rajesh returns with Oh...! Sukumari, a concept-driven film built entirely around her character. While the premise appears quirky and offers scope for an entertaining family fantasy, the film collapses under outdated writing, forced comedy, and amateurish narration.
Aishwarya Rajesh plays a woman born with a strange condition—anyone who touches her receives an electric shock. Why she has this unusual ability and how her husband, played by Thiruveer, helps her overcome it forms the core of the story. Unfortunately, director Bharath Dharshan buries this interesting idea beneath cringeworthy comedy and repetitive storytelling that severely tests the audience's patience.
Aishwarya looks convincing in the role and carries the film with confidence despite the weak material. Thiruveer, who previously impressed in Masooda and The Pre-Wedding Show, once again picks a role that suits his screen presence. He gives a sincere performance and tries his best to salvage the film, with his natural ease in comedy standing out even when the jokes fail.
The biggest disappointment is the comedy. Almost every character is written to generate laughs, yet hardly a single joke lands in the entire first half. The humour feels forced, repetitive, and painfully outdated.
The screenplay is equally frustrating. The heroine's condition is known to everyone in the village except the hero. Every time someone is about to reveal the truth, the film conveniently interrupts the moment with another contrived excuse. This repetitive pattern continues throughout the first half, which makes the writing feel lazy and predictable.
The second half offers little improvement. The same weak writing, outdated treatment, and poorly developed characters continue, making the narrative equally tedious. To make matters worse, the final half hour suddenly attempts to shift into emotional drama between the lead pair. However, the transformation of the selfish joint family into a compassionate one feels completely unearned, resulting in an emotional climax that lacks impact.
The film inevitably reminds viewers of the Malayalam superhero film Minnal Murali, where the concept of electric powers was handled with far greater imagination, emotional depth, and intelligence. Oh..! Sukumari borrows a similar "shock" element but never develops it into an engaging cinematic experience.
On the technical front, the production values are average, while the background score and cinematography do little to elevate the proceedings.
The premise is undermined by the writing, the comedy, and the screenplay, and it delivers more shock than entertainment.
