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Before I go breathless with what could have been or should have been, let me get the disclaimer out. Gaddalakonda Ganesh is the Telugu remake of the Tamil film Jigarthanda, which doesn't cater to the sensibilities of a fan. If Jigarthanda is MS Subbulakshmi rendering Suprabhatam, this movie is Beyonce belting out something the former's fans wouldn't really relate to. The focus is different, and it would be a disservice to let the spectre of Jigarthanda hang over what should otherwise be an objective review of this Telugu movie.
Gaddalakonda Ganesh, henceforth referred to as GG, is a risky movie with an attempt to make the protagonist Varun Tej look scary. So the makers of GG gave him a crazy hairstyle, a bone-dry beard and a menacing scar to boot. (Questions our conditioning isn't it? We associate looks with character - beautiful people heroes, not so beautiful, antagonists, weird).
Varun Tej picks up a good local accent, adopts a cold body-language and starts killing people. He is the dreaded gangster in an average Telugu film. Rama (Atharvaa) is an aspiring filmmaker and is out to make a gangster movie to prove to an arrogant director that an assistant director has no fame, but a lot of talent.
After researching the life of Ganesh and gathering the material he needs for his film, Rama gets discovered. But, instead of killing him, Ganesh, who is driven by greed to have his biopic made, narrates to Rama his entire story, only to get all obstinate about featuring in the movie as well.
This carves a new challenge for Rama, but he comes out with flying colours. A series of events including Rama's movie showcasing love and adoration for Ganesh - who is only used to seeing fear in people - brings about a transformation in the criminal.
Overall, as a pure Telugu movie, GG is not stunning, not heart-wrenching and not thrilling either. Many good moments are lost in the rather loud background music, that consumes the silence, some of the narrative drama needs.
Here, Varun Tej's GG did violent stuff but the background music and the rockstar treatment of the character wouldn't let you invest in the evilness even for a bit. Technically, Ganesh is not a character with grey shades. It is just a plain white character masquerading as a dark one, a makeup so superficial you wouldn't believe it, just like the physical attributes including a scar with a flashback.
Atharvaa, unlike Siddharth, is innocent. Where Siddharth in the original brings opportunism, Atharvaa brings honesty. It works out, but his character doesn't have space to breathe, because of Ganesh's boundaries overlapping with his. Satya has a meaty role, and while he is funny at times, he overdoes it at others, mostly because the reliance was not on scripted humour but on theatrics.
Varun Tej had it in him to do a grey role but of all the characters, Ganesh's didn't let him. Ganesh's watered-down character, was purely the screenplay writer's responsibility or was it a commercial decision, one wonders, because Karthik Subbaraju had created a character of a lifetime in the original. Rama was fine being second fiddle, when he could have been so much more.
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