Babulal Biscope and Thinking Hats Entertainment’s Ohh My Dog (UA) is the story of a dog saving his master, and another story of a little boy saving his pet dog.
Appu (Mahi Rai), who lives in Assam, has a pet dog, Momo. One day, the dog goes missing. Appu and his mother (Geeta Agarwal) go to the police station to file a complaint, but police officer Md. Yusuf Hazari (Vijay Mishra) tells the mother that the dog may have been murdered by a gang specialising in killing dogs for profit. Not the one to give up, Appu sets out in search of Momo. His tuition teacher, Krishna (Sulakhyana Baruah), accompanies him and the two enlist the assistance of police officer Md. Yusuf Hazari. Along the way, Appu realises that Hazari is not above board and that he may be hand-in-glove with the dog kidnappers. How Appu traces Momo and, in the process, exposes the dog kidnapping racket and police officer Hazari is what the latter part of the drama is all about.
Simultaneously, a little boy, Prince (Nikhil Kumar), is kidnapped in Bihar by a gang of people who specialise in removing kidneys of the abducted persons and selling them illegally, of course. Prince has a pet dog, Oscar. While Prince’s family, school teacher (Pankaj Tripathi) and his friends are clueless about where Prince could be, Oscar manages to catch the kidnapper. In the process, Oscar also exposes the racket of clandestine kidney trading.
Amit Rai has written a heartfelt story about pet dogs and their masters who are two little boys. Two stories move parallelly in two different states of India. While both the stories are interesting, they move at a slow pace. Amit Rai’s screenplay is more engaging than entertaining. He has not infused humour in the drama and, therefore, it becomes boring, at times. The light scenes between Appu and teacher Krishna’s uncle-police officer (Pavan Malhotra) are not half as funny as they should’ve been. Although the climaxes of both the stories are satisfying, the level of satisfaction and thrill experienced by the viewers is lower than what it should’ve been. Nothing short of tear-jerking climaxes were the demand of the drama. The low impact is partly because of the drama being overtly long and also because most of the artistes are unknown or lesser known faces. Amit Rai’s dialogues are nice.
Mahi Rai performs excellently as Appu and is both, confident and cute. Pankaj Tripathi lends good support as Prince’s school teacher. Rajesh Kumar makes a very fine impression as Daroga. Vijay Mishra is terrific as police officer Md. Yusuf Hazari. Sulakhyana Baruah leaves a mark as Appu’s tuition teacher, Krishna. Pavan Malhotra is realistic as Krishna’s maternal uncle who is a police officer. Geeta Agarwal makes her presence amply felt in the role of Appu’s mother. Bulloo Kumar makes his mark as Lalua. Nikhil Kumar is alright as Prince. Jitendra Joshi is good in a brief role as Rajale. Shashie Verma lends able support as Bombay police inspector. Shreedhar Dubey is natural as Mukadam. Sunil Bihari (as Prince’s father), Anjali Sharma (as Prince’s mother), Rajesh Raja (as hawaldar Bageshar Rai), Manoj Manav (as the paan shop owner), Prashant Kashyap (as Appu’s father), Ishika Raj, Ragini Kumar, Riya Mehta (all three as Prince’s sisters), Urmila Gogai, Bhaskar Gogai (both as the pet shop owners), Mrutyunjay Prasad (as goon Kamal), Ashish Kumar (as Manohar), Jeetu Kumar (as Vikas), Lalua (as Mrutunjay Prasad), Asim Kumar (as the police sub-inspector), Bishwa Shankar (as the police hawaldar), Utpala Chetia (as the lady police hawaldar), Saurabh Kumar (as Chandan), Nitul Barua, Bhoirab Phukan, Arup, Lengdon Handigue (all four as kidnappers), Randhir Kumar, Kunal Kumar, Mrigank Kumar (all three as hawaldars), Adil Rashid (as the rickshawala), Ashok Kolita (as the RTO officer) and the rest provide very good support.
Amit Rai’s direction is sensitive. Aman Pant’s music is so-so. There is not a single hit song. Lyrics (Akhil Tiwari, Guru Thakur and Prashant Sishodia) are quite nice. Mangesh Dhakde’s background music is fair. Mate Herbai’s cinematography is of a very fine standard. Action and stunt scenes, choreographed by Sunil Rodrigues and Ike Hamon, are fairly exciting. Ashwini Shrivastav’s production designing, and Balaram Sarkar and Pooja Kanchan Thorat’s art direction are reasonably good. Suvir Nath’s editing should’ve been sharper.
On the whole, Ohh My Dog is a fairly well-made film, but its long running time and lack of face value are minus points. It will, therefore, not be able to realise its full potential at the box-office. Pet lovers will like the film.
Released on 6-8-’26 at Metro Inox (1 show; in daily 3 shows from 7-8-’26) and other cinemas of Bombay thru AA Films. Publicity: so-so. Opening: dull. …….Also released all over. Opening was weak at most of the places.
