Game Changer Movie Cast/Actors: Ram Charan, Kiara Advani, S.J. Suryah, Dil Raju, Nassar, Vennela Kishore, Jayaram, Anjali, Brahmanandam & others
Game Changer Movie Director: S. Shankar
Game Changer Movie Production House: Sri Venkateswara Creations
Game Changer Movie Release Date: 10th January, 2025
Game Changer Movie Available On: Theatrical Release and (likely to be released on Amazon Prime Video OTT Platform)
Game Changer Movie Released/Available In Languages: Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada & Malayalam
Game Changer Movie Runtime: 2h 45m
Game Changer Movie Critic Review:
Rs 75 crore only on song picturisation?
Director S Shankar’s overloud take on an upright Collector who carries forward his father’s vision of politics without money power, is a case study on how a grand budget does not translate into great cinema. Just as perfume cannot cover up the odour of an unwashed body, lavish mounting cannot fill upa creative vacuum.
Karthik Subbaraj’s story pitches IPS officer turned IAS officer Ram Nandan (Ram Charan) opposite CM aspirant Bobbili Mopi Devi (S.J. Suryah). Desperate for the chair, Mopi Devi is the epitome of evil – more a gangster leading a corrupt system than a clever politician. In a meandering screenplay that goes into a flashback on Ram’s idealist father Appanna (also played by Ram Charan), the loot and corruption that follow his death and Ram Nandan’s fight to take off from and continue the story that his father had left incomplete, it culminates with the fiercest election rigging that the Collector has to fight to deliver justice to the voter.
The IPS background provides justification for the IAS officer’s fighting skills and ability to demolish a battalion of baddies. But, strangely, girlfriend Deepika (Kiara Advani) had broken off with him precisely because she wanted him only as an IAS officer and not as a policeman. Makes sense for why Ram has qualified for IPS plus IAS? That silliness is perhaps Deepika’s only contribution to a story that is essentially Ram Nandan vs Mopi Devi.
The lavishly picturised songs have one thing in common – they have a beat but no melody, no tune to take back home and no dance move that will live on as iconic. Composer Thaman S and the various choreographers may not take a bow, please. Deepika’s inexplicable ‘DHOP’ as the antidote to Ram’s anger issues and his “Unpredictable” are too laboured to be catchy.
Humour comes from Ram Nandan’s assistant who can only stand sideways and look sideways because he was born sideways. It also comes from Mopi Devi’s hamming which goes from finger snapping to facial distortions.
The overloud scenes with overloud background score accompanying them are broken by intermittent fights featuring Ram Nandan. The entry fight with Ram in a vest and lungi that ends with him taking off in a chopper and saving a row of goons tied to the railway track in the nick of time, held promise but didn’t deliver as the thrill element goes missing from the subsequent action sequences.
If music, humour and action don’t have the welcome flavour of entertaining mirth, Ram Charan is given the challenge of portraying father and son differently in only one aspect – dad had such a pronounced stammer that he couldn’t deliver a speech coherently. Speech impediment is political impediment, runs the concluding equation.
Let’s add, creative impediment in Shankar and his writers is a cinematic impediment.
Game Changer – Watch Or Not?: Spare your eardrums.
Game Changer Review Score Rating: 2 out of 5 (i.e. 2/5)
Game Changer Movie Official Trailer:
Credits: Zee Studios
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