O2 movie review – An engaging survival thriller

The film, directed by Vignesh and titled O2, which stands for Oxygen, tries to convey the importance of air. Nayanthara, a young widow who lost her husband. His only son Rithvik has a respiratory disorder. He can always breathe only through the oxygen cylinder. Nayanthara and Rithvik travels by Omni bus from Coimbatore to Kochi to undergo the operation. The bus from Coimbatore to Kochi unexpectedly slides and gets buried in the ground. The director has tried to tell through the lively screenplay whether the eleven people in the bus escaped or not.

The story is written around Nayantara who is interested in nature and her son Rithvik who has a breathing problem. Nayanthara leaves for Kochi with an oxygen cylinder for her son’s treatment. The bus in which she was traveling was carrying a drug trafficking police officer, a man who was released after serving a prison sentence for a crime he did not commit, including a former MLA and a boy with his girlfriend.

Bus journey to be completed within 4 hours. But due to the rain, the landslide caused the bus to get stuck in the ground. An environment where 11 people can survive with only 10 hours of oxygen there. The film moves on with the question of who will survive? and who will die?

In addition, the film crew has tried to create anticipation among the fans about what the police officer who traveled in the bus for drug trafficking is going to do to others. But even though the character acted against Nayanthara, the viewers did not create hatred in their minds. And those who are there with less oxygen are pointing at the Rithvik’s oxygen cylinder. Did they capture it or not? Were those people on the bus rescued? Did Nayantara save her son? Tells the rest of the story of the film.

No mother is dangerous to her child and will not be idle, even if it is a tree. Verses such as landslides occur on the ordinary mountain because the mountains are too high to pass with the screenplay.

Much of the O2 film moves in a bus stuck in the ground. The cinematographer Tamil has captured that small space very nicely. He has recorded each and every scene in such a way that it does not chime. Vishal Chandrasekhar’s music is the backbone of his melodies.

The film stars Nayanthara, Aadukalam Murugadoss, you tube fame Rithvik, director Bharath Neelakandan in the lead roles. The minus is the lack of stressful scenes in this film which was taken with the intention of emphasizing the importance of oxygen. Nor did the scene of them trying to attack each other for oxygen create tension. And the role of Nayanthara, the heroine of the film, is not given much importance.

O2 – Suffocating