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Story: Two youngsters run away from their village on the same day to avoid getting married. While both their reasons are different, the entire village assumes that they have eloped together.
_Orey Bujjiga _explores how fate brings these rumoured lovers together and turns fiction into reality REVIEW: Films on mistaken identities are not new in Telugu cinema. In fact, we've
seen quite a few directors narrate stories about protagonists hiding their real identities from the ones they love due to fear of losing them. Director Vijay Kumar Konda's Orey Bujjiga
is based on a similarly predictable premise. Cliched, stale and unimaginative, it fails to strike a chord with viewers. In fact, the director largely sticks to the same formulaic concept of
his earlier film Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde, except seven years later, this seems way off the mark. Bujji(Raj Tarun) is a young engineering graduate who runs away from his village to avoid
a marriage he's not interested in. Parallelly Krishna Veni(Malvika Nair) also runs away on the same day from the same village for the same reason. Given the coincidence, the entire
village assumes that they've eloped together and begins their hunt to bring them back home. Interestingly, Bujji and Krishnaveni never meet despite growing up in the same village for 20
years. Destiny brings them together in Hyderabad where they meet in a chance encounter. While his entire village knows him as Bujji, he introduces himself to Krishnaveni as Srinu (his real
name). Pandemonium ensues when his villagers clamour for the couple's return but Srinu keeps his identity as Bujji hidden from Krishnaveni as he realises he begins to fall in love with
her. But how long can he hide his identity and will he lose her forever if she finds out? The screenplay is weak and the dialogues fail to make an impact. In fact, the biggest letdown in
this film is its lazy writing. It seems like Konda just rehashed a few of his earlier films to make Orey Bujjiga and the half-heartedness of it comes to the fore. Bujji's attempts at
covering up things to save his real identity comes across as farcical and is utterly unconvincing. For a film with a lot of comedy tracks, there is very little humour in Orey Bujjiga. The
dose of emotion at the climax only adds to our woes. Raj Tarun is earnest but is letdown by a poorly written script. Malvika gets a lot of screen time and is good in parts but doesn't
quite make an impact in the emotional scenes, while Hebbah Patel makes a special appearance as Raj Tarun's gold-digger college girlfriend. Senior actors like Posani Murali Krishna and
Naresh lend gravitas to this film. Orey Bujjiga, director Vijay Kumar Konda repeats a formula that was successful seven years ago. But with the audience being exposed to much more diverse
range of content, especially on OTT platforms, a script like this will struggle to find takers. Dull, predictable and cliched, Orey Bujjiga falters on many levels and truly tests your
patience.