{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{Use Indian English|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = Oy! | image = Oye poster.jpg | caption = Movie Poster | director = Anand Ranga | producer = D. V. V. Danayya | writer = Anand Ranga | screenplay = | story = | based_on = | starring = {{plainlist| *Siddharth *Shamili }} | narrator = | music = Yuvan Shankar Raja | cinematography = Vijay K. Chakravarthy | editing = Marthand K. Venkatesh | studio = Universal Media | distributor = Universal Media | released = {{Film date|df=yes|2009|7|3}} | runtime = 166 minutes<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/oye-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc00mtk0mdk|title=Oye|website=British Board of Film Classification}}</ref> | country = India | language = Telugu | budget = | gross = }} '''''Oy!''''' is a 2009 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film written and directed by debutant Anand Ranga. The film stars Siddharth and Shamili (in her first leading role),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/41391.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080912173944/http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/41391.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 September 2008 |title=Baby Shamili debuts opposite Siddharth |work=indiaglitz.com |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> while Sunil and Ali play supporting roles. The music of the film was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ragalahari.com/news/5740/yuvan-shankar-raja-to-compose-music-for-oye.aspx |title=Yuvan Shankar Raja to compose music for Oye |publisher=ragalahari.com |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> The story revolves around Uday (Siddharth) fulfilling the wishes of Sandhya (Shamili) during her last days, as the latter was diagnosed with cancer.
The film was released on 3 July 2009. The film is loosely based on the 2002 film ''A Walk to Remember''. The film was dubbed in Tamil as ''Kadhal Alai''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kadhal Alai Tamil Movie - Watch Online |url=https://www.sunnxt.com/tamil-movie/detail/8860/ |website=Sun NXT |access-date=10 January 2023}}</ref>
Although the film was an average grosser in its initial release, it gained a strong cult following over the years and has remained as a favorite of many. It was eventually re-released on Valentine's Day 2024.<ref>{{Cite web | author=Pramod |date=February 15, 2024 |title=ఓయ్ రీ రిలీజ్ కలెక్షన్స్…ఇది ఊహకందని భీభత్సం!! |url=https://t2blive.com/oyere-release-collections-solid-day1/ |access-date=August 19, 2025 |website=T2BLive}}</ref>
==Plot== Uday, is a rich kid who becomes the chairman of a company following his father's death. He believes in the adage of life is short and carpe diem. At a New Year's Party 2007, he spies on a girl called Sandhya in a salwar-kameez, writing a diary at the pub.
Through a series of searches with his friend Fatso, he ends up discovering that Sandhya lives alone at a beachside house and runs a nursery. She is very traditional with her own ideals. He enters in her house on a pretense as a paying guest to make her fall in love with him. After a series of attempts to woo Sandhya, Uday eventually succeeds and presents her with 12 gifts on her birthday, the last being Uday himself.
In a subplot, an insurance salesman named Abhishek ends up trying to show his younger and reclusive colleague "how to be a man" in many lessons that often result in the latter's physical pain. Eventually, the duo collides with the story's main plot when they attempt to sell Sandhya life insurance (which she later agrees to buy). When asked who the beneficiary of the policy should be, she writes Uday's name. When Uday hears this, he thinks that he has won Sandhya. However, it is revealed to Uday (through the insurance policy which has now been rejected) that Sandhya is suffering from breast cancer and has limited time left.
In the ensuing part of the film, Uday takes Sandhya on a cruise to Kolkata to spread her parents' ashes in the Ganga River. They run into several comic characters in their journey, including a kidnapped Abhishek who tries unsuccessfully to tell Sandhya that her policy was rejected because of her illness; his attempts are thwarted by Uday. These circumstances help Uday teach Sandhya how to live life, and back from the trip, Sandhya and Uday throw a Christmas party at Sandhya's beach house. However, Sandhya collapses in the aftermath of the party and discovers the truth about her health.
Sandhya eventually falls in love with Uday and says that she wants to spend the last days of her life with him. The ending scene has Uday and Sandhya sitting on a bench in the rain with a "Welcome 2008" sign in the background on New Year's Eve. The scene then fades to Uday sitting alone with a "Welcome 2009" sign in the background one year later waiting for the rain. This infers that Sandhya has died, but Uday still keeps her memories close to heart. The film ends with Uday leaving after the rain.
== Cast == {{cast listing| * Siddharth as Uday * Shamili as Sandhya Jagarlamudi * Sunil as Abhishek * Ali as Layout M. Lingaraju * Napoleon as Dr. Harish Chandra Prasad * Pradeep Rawat as Ras Bihari * Krishnudu as Fatso * M. S. Narayana as Hotel Manager * Tanikella Bharani as Telugu Teacher * Saptagiri as Abhishek's assistant * Master Bharath as Maruthi * Surekha Vani as Sandhya's friend * Raavi Kondala Rao as Koteswara Rao "Kotigadu" * Radha Kumari as Rajyamma * Rallapalli as Advocate * Bhanu as Loan Recovery Goon * Baby Srilekha as Srilakshmi a.k.a. Sri * Baby Harshitha as Srivijayalakshmi a.k.a. Viji * Baby Nandini as Bhagyalakshmi * Gururaj Manepalli as Uday's coworker }}
== Soundtrack == {{Infobox album | name = Oy! | type = soundtrack | artist = Yuvan Shankar Raja | cover = Siddharths Oy!.JPG | alt = | released = {{Start date|df=y|2009|5|22}} | recorded = 2008–2009 | venue = | studio = | genre = Feature film soundtrack | length = 29:18 | label = Aditya Music | producer = Siddharth | prev_title = Muthirai | prev_year = 2009 | next_title = Gilli | next_year = 2009 }} The music, including film score and soundtrack was composed by Tamil film composer Yuvan Shankar Raja. The soundtrack, released on 22 May 2009 at Rama Naidu studios,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/audio-oy.html|title=Oy! music launch|publisher=idlebrain.com|access-date=2009-05-23}}</ref> features 6 tracks overall, out of which, Yuvan Shankar Raja himself has sung one song and one song by the film's lead actor Siddharth.The lyrics were penned by five people, with Vanamali writing the lyrics for three of the six songs, Chandrabose, Anantha Sreeram for each one song and Surendra Krishna and Krishna Chaitanya together for the last song. The theme is inspired from the Tom Hanks comedy, Forrest Gump.
Yuvan Shankar Raja received positive reviews for his musical score, which was described as a "rhythmic joy",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/audio/areviews/oy.html|title=Oy! audio review|publisher=idlebrain.com|access-date=2009-07-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605152854/http://www.idlebrain.com/audio/areviews/oy.html|archive-date=5 June 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> "superb",<ref name="i">{{cite web|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-oy.html|title=Oy! Telugu movie review|publisher=idlebrain.com|access-date=2009-07-04}}</ref> "a blast"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://123telugu.com/reviews/O/Oye/Oye_review.html|title=Oye - A love story that tugs your heart|publisher=123telugu.com|access-date=2009-07-04}}</ref> and "a highlight of the movie".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.filmibeat.com/telugu/reviews/2009/movie-oye-review-040709.html|title=Oye review|date=4 July 2009 |publisher=idlebrain.com|access-date=2009-07-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/47668.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620105542/http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/47668.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 June 2009|title='Oy!' almost complete|work=indiaglitz.com|access-date=2009-07-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicindiaonline.com/n/i/telugu/3978/|title='Oye' to can last song in Chennai|publisher=musicindiaonline.com|access-date=2009-07-04}} {{Dead link|date=November 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/47994.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703185813/http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/47994.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 July 2009|title=Shamili debuts as heroine|work=indiaglitz.com|access-date=2009-07-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sivajitv.com/news/Andhra_Mesmerized_With_Yuvans_Tune_.htm|title=Andhra Mesmerized With Yuvan's Tune|publisher=sivajitv.com|access-date=2009-07-04}}</ref>
===Track listing=== {{Track listing | collapsed = | headline = Track list | extra_column = Artist(s) | total_length = 29:18 | title1 = Oy Oy | note1 = | lyrics1 = Chandrabose | extra1 = Siddharth, Prashanthini | length1 = 4:42 | title2 = Saradaga | note2 = | lyrics2 = Anantha Sreeram | extra2 = Sunidhi Chauhan, Karthik | length2 = 4:38 | title3 = Waiting For You | note3 = | lyrics3 = Vanamali | extra3 = K.K. | length3 = 5:54 | title4 = Anukoledenadu | note4 = | lyrics4 = Vanamali | extra4 = Shreya Ghoshal | length4 = 4:44 | title5 = Povadhe Prema | note5 = | lyrics5 = Vanamali | extra5 = Yuvan Shankar Raja | length5 = 4:35 | title6 = Seheri | note6 = | lyrics6 = Surendra Krishna, Kirshna Chaitanya | extra6 = Toshi Sabri, Priya Himesh | length6 = 4:45 | title7 = Tholisari Nee Deevene | lyrics7 = Telugu by Vanamali (Bhojpuri by unknown Kolkata guy) | extra7 = Hariharan }}
== Reception == A critic from ''Rediff.com'' wrote that "All in all, a good film".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2009/jul/06oye-is-a-good-film.htm|title=Oye is a good film|last=Vijayasarathy|first=R. G.|work=Rediff.com|date=6 July 2009}}</ref> Jeevi of ''Idlebrain.com'' wrote that "One should have guts to make such a film in Telugu where heroine dies at the end".<ref name="i"/> The film had an average run at the box office.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFJFDIs448Y | title=Siddharth Superb Reply to a Memer Question About Oye Movie Re Release | Manastars | website=YouTube | date=June 2023 }}</ref>
==Awards== ===Filmfare Awards South=== *Filmfare Special Award - South for best Outstanding Score – Yuvan Shankar Raja *CineMAA Award for Best Female Debut - Shamili
== References == {{Reflist|2}}
== External links == * {{IMDb title|1455237|Oy!}}
Category:2009 films Category:2009 Telugu-language films Category:2009 romantic drama films Category:Films shot in Visakhapatnam Category:Indian romantic drama films Category:Films produced by D. V. V. Danayya Category:Films set in Visakhapatnam Category:Films scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja