Ganesh - Movie Review

Film: Ganesh
Cast: Ram, Kajal, Brahmanandam, Ashish Vidyardhi, Sudha, Kasi Vishwanath, Poonam Kaur, Rohini Hattangidi and others
Dialogues: Abburi Ravi
Music: Mickey J Meyer
Lyrics: Sirivennela, Ramajogaiah Shastry
Cinematography: Hari Anumolu
Editing: Srikara Prasad
Art: Peketi Ranga
Action: Peter Heins
Produced by: Sravanthi Ravikishore
Story, screenplay and directed by: M Saravanan
Release date: September 24, 2009
CBFC Rating: U/A
What’s it about!

A close friend of Ganesh (Ram) gets in a problem - that his father wants him to get married to his niece. As his friend is already in love with another girl and he could not tell this to his father at this juncture, Ganesh comes forward to help him. Ganesh hatches a plan to make his friend’s niece Divya (Kajal) fall in love with him so that his friend would be happily marry his girlfriend. Ganesh takes rent a floor above Divya’s apartment and woes her with his charming ways. She falls in love with him and they soon exchange rings. But one day, Divya comes to know that Ganesh is pretending to be in her love just to help his friend. Heartbroken Divya starts hating Ganesh who tries to convince that he has really fallen in love but in vain. The rest of the film is all about Ganesh making her realize his true love.


Analysis

After stupendous success of Ready and above average Maska, Ram has emerged as hottest hero. With Ready, he won the hearts of youth and kids, and with Maska, he established himself as a mass hero too. Hence, to sustain this image, he has chosen Ganesh, a very simple script narrated by newcomer Saravanan. Ram’s superman histrionics and children playing major role in the narration seems to be an attempt to make Ram dear to kids in Andhra. The film’s first half is good but it misses the track in the second half. Moreover, the run time is too excessive to this kind of simple film. Some comedy here and there, excellent cinematography and first half are its strengths. Rest is pretty ordinary.

Performances

Ram, known for his high energy levels, has played a lover boy role. He has done neat job in that and also tried to win the hearts of kids with his superman antics. He has not indulged in much action scenes (as there are hardly any fights) and dances are also okay. Kajal has looked good in songs and some romantic scenes. Chemistry between the lead stars is fine. Brahmanandam as Yadagiri has tried to provide some entertainment. Poonam Kaur in a special apperance adds glam quotient to the moive. All the kids who acted are cute. Rest of the cast is okay . Ashishi Vidyardhi's role is poorly etched.

On technical front, Hari Anumolu walks away with top honours. His cinematography is top class. Music by Mickey J Meyer is bad. Except the song, written by Sirivennela, none of the songs are humble. The less said about his background score is the better. Although the film is shot mostly at one or two places but the production values of Sravanthi Movies are topnotch. Abburi Ravi impresses with one or two good dialogues.

Bottom-line!

Ganesh is just an okay film. First half has is decent with some good entertainment but second half misses the track. Should have been trimmed to make it tighter in the second half (2.50 hrs runtime). On the whole, it is strictly average fare.

Rating: 3/5

Reviewed by JP