OS Avinash and a still from his film Oolala Oolala. Telegraph pictures

Bhubaneswar, Nov. 23: Following his stint with Telegu films, Bhubaneswar-born filmmaker O.S. Avinash is all set to return to his roots. His upcoming venture is a romantic film with both Odia and Telegu as media of language.

The romance-cum-family drama, Oolala Oolala is packed with entertainment, said the director. In the movie, a Telegu boy and an Odia girl fall in love. The film is about the tension that prevails in teenage love and the series of troublesome situations that take place when their families come to know about their affair.

The film portrays the inappropriate situations that the lovers get into due to unrestrained independence from their parents. “Nowadays most families are nuclear. Hence, there is no guidance of grandparents or other senior members. As both the parents work, they devote less time to their children. Thus lack of proper supervision leads them to wrong directions,” said Avinash.

The film also conveys thatyoung love, being impractical, tends to go haywire. “A sense of distance from their parents forces the teenagers to take respite in their lovers. They consider the intimacy as love though most of the times, it is nothing more than an infatuation,” Avinash said.

For him, the maiden directorial venture in Odia was not easy. “A lot of coordination was required to combine two languages. We were portraying the cultures of two states that are quite different. Hence, I had to research a lot to put them together properly so that each would retain its identity,” he added.

Young actors Mahendra and Pretty Agarwal are portraying the lead pair. The film also has Samaresh Routray, Mihir Das, Lipsa Mishra and Jiban Pandaa palying other significant roles.

Shyama Prasanna has scored the music by and Basantraj Samal has written the lyrics. The film will be screened in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh and is slated to release in January 2015.