BOTTOM LINE
Outdated SPORTS Drama
OUR RATING
2/5
CENSOR
Drama , Sports • UA
The story:
Ghani (Varun Tej) is a son of a stained boxer. His father is caught cheating using drugs and substances while boxing. He is branded as a cheater. The movie’s basic plot is how Ghani absolves his father’s name and achieves his goal (a dream of his father) to win the boxing tournament.
Ghani’s mother (Nadhiya) not letting him take up boxing forms the subplot. How Ghani moves his focus toward boxing, hiding it from his mother and what’s her reaction eventually comprises the overall movie.
Performances
The performance of Varun Tej in Ghani’s role needs to be seen via two lenses. One is that of physicality, and the other is acting. The effort is visible when it comes to the former, and it works as intended during the training montage song and the climax fight block. He appears well built and imposing, which adds to the screen presence.
However, when it comes to acting, Varun Tej is alright. He looks normal (as in seen in any other film) for the most part. He goes about the proceedings in his typical way. The raw intensity for the part feels missing, barring a few moments towards the end. Ghani is another good attempt for him filmography wise, but it doesn’t end up being memorable acting-wise.
Saiee Majrekar making her Telugu debut is seen in an inconsequential role. She has typical commercial heroine scenes in the first half and goes missing during the second hour. Unfortunately for her, the utterly routine and bland commercial stuff fail to generate any impact.
Performances of actors.
Varun tej is good and the heroine is nice ..Alla others are ok..
Other departments
Thaman provides the music for Ghani. Barring the title song, nothing really works. When it comes to the background score, he seems to have slipped into the thinking that the louder, the better. Well, that is not the case here, as the earsplitting BGM induces a headache. George C Willaims’s cinematography is neat. The boxing scenes are shot well. Marthand K Venkatesh’s editing is okay. The writing is the movie’s biggest drawback, along with the routine story and cliched narration.
Highlights
Title Song
Climax Block (Sans Drama)
Production Values
Drawbacks?
Routine Story
Writing
Cliched Characters And Drama
No Surprise Elements, No highs
Outdated Vibe
The second half of Ghani is comparatively better after a not so impressive first. The biggest issue remains that of freshness, with hardly anything new. Everything has a seen before feel. Varun Tej is well-built physically. Review coming soon.
— Heroine Maya (Saiee Manjrekar) is back on screen in pre-climax for a blink and miss appearance.
— Tamannaah‘s item song appears out of the blue. It could have been appropriately placed!
— The training montage song is decently shot and well placed. This is the best of the film so-far.
— Ghani second half started with Upendra’s flashback episode.
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