Game Changer Movie Review
on Jan 9, 2025
Cast: Ram Charan, Kiara Advani, SJ Suryah, Srikanth, Anjali, Sunil, Samuthirakani, Subhalekha Sudhakar, Jayaram
Crew:
Story by Karthik Subbaraj
Dialogues by Sai Madhav Burra
Music by S Thaman
Cinematography by Tirru
Editing by Ruben, Shameer Mohammad
Screenplay by S. Shankar, Vivek, S. Venkatesan
Directed by S. Shankar
Produced by Dil Raju, Shirish
Ram Charan after RRR has received huge recognition worldwide for his acting prowess and screen presence. When he announced his next with Shankar after a Rajamouli movie, everyone felt this movie will be his true career Game Changer at best. Interestingly, even makers came up with same title. A movie mounted on a massive scale of Rs.400 crores budget with Shankar's typical lookout for technical brilliance and social message, what more can a film fan expect for Sankranti! Let's discuss Game Changer is able to sustain and deliver on this belief!
Plot:
Ram Nandan(Ram Charan) after being appointed as IPS, works hard to become IAS and becomes collector of Vizag. He searches for his true love doctor Deepika(Kiara Advani) and gets to know that she runs an old age home. After meeting her, he gets to know that an old tribal woman also stays with her. She asks him to take her to ageing CM Bobbili Satyamurthy(Srikanth)'s open meeting. There she questions him and in fact orders him to work for people.
But his foster son, Bobbili Mopidevi(SJ Suryah) intervenes and Ram Nandan slaps him for manhandling the old lady. CM suspends Ram and even expels Mopidevi from party. Mopidevi decides to kill Murthy and becomes CM, even decides to murder Ram. But as his death wish, Satyamurthy decides to honor his mentor Appanna and asks party people to elect Ram as CM. Why? Who is that old lady? What is her relation with Ram and Appanna? Watch the movie to know more.
Analysis:
Ram Charan aced the character of Appanna and put his maximum efforts in each and every scene. He carried the film on his shoulders and proved that he is able actor. His energy, screen presence and efforts elevated flashback portion. Even as young Ram Nandan, he is adorable.
Next, we have to mention SJ Suryah's performance but he is getting slightly monotonous with loud acting. Still, he delivered his best in well-written scenes. Srikanth got a great scope to perform and he utilised it to mixamum. Anjali did her role well and rest of them did their best within the permits of screenplay.
Technically, the movie has set high standards and production values have to be praised. We can see each paisa spent on the movie, on screen. The budget spent on songs and grandeur in scenes is palpable for the span. Production house did not back out from spending massively on screen. S Thaman background score also is good but his songs could have been better. His work in emotional scenes stands out.
Everything said and done, the movie falls flat with an uninspired writing by Shankar. Karthik Subbaraj's story is routine and scenes created by Shankar are also similarly old. The imaginative Shankar, who made us all awe at his ability to insert emotions in big commercial films has failed to connect us with emotions in this one.
His concentration on using new age camera and techniques to tell a scene, have diluted the impact further. Where we can find a good scene there we definitely find an irritating and irrational camera movement that just makes it hard to watch. As a director, Shankar needs to understand where his technical brilliance should end and where the script needs to take over.
But here, he used all his tried and tested troupes from Oke Okkadu, Shivaji and it seems obvious that he isn't challenged enough as a writer and director to bring out something unique in his last four outings. He is looking for technical brilliance to cover up for it and it is not working as anticipated. Hence, the movie which looks good on paper did not translate with similar impact on screen. For Ram Charan and few good scenes, this is at best a one-time watch.
In Conclusion:
A diluted political drama with inspired Ram Charan's performance.
Rating: 2.5/5
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