A sports drama that lacks punch
Overview: There have been some distinctive sports activities movies made in South India in latest instances. Be it Gowtam Tinnanuri’s Jersey or Pa. Ranjith’s Sarpatta Parambarai, these movies handle to hook you from the get-go no matter your fondness or lack of it for sports activities. Be it the participant’s private lives or the politics that include sport, movies made prior to now have managed to discover the side effectively. Debutant Kiran Korrapati’s Ghani too has all of the substances required, which is why it’s unhappy to see it swap substance for fashion.
On the planet of Ghani, there was as soon as a boxer referred to as Vikramaditya from Andhra Pradesh who was passionate in regards to the sport and even made it to the state boxing championship, solely to be disgraced at nationals. Fifteen years later, his spouse (Nadhiya) and son Ghani (Varun Tej Konidela) are nonetheless reeling from the aftermath. The previous doesn’t need her son to be related to something that introduced ache to their household; the latter nonetheless doesn’t know the way to surrender the game. He tries every part from collaborating in unlawful boxing bouts to creating it to the ring – solely to seek out out the reality about his father. Will he handle to fulfil his father’s dream types the crux of Ghani.
On the core of the movie is a narrative that is perhaps cliché however deserves to be handled with the type of seriousness it deserves. As an alternative of doing that, debutant Kiran dilly-dallys with a peppy quantity, that includes a cliché love curiosity Maya (Saiee Manjrekar) and a particular quantity, that includes Tamannaah Bhatia. In actual fact, he spends the entire of the primary half of the movie exploring not simply Ghani’s dynamic together with his mother and father but additionally a yawn-inducing love story that provides completely nothing to the story at hand. There are additionally different gamers on this story. There’s Aadi (Naveen Chandra), the son of a wealthy businessman who needs to carve out his personal id. The founding father of Indian Boxing League is Eeswar (Jagapathi Babu), who shares a previous with Vikramaditya and Ghani. Kiran tries for a ‘large reveal’ when it comes to Suniel Shetty and Nimma Upendra’s characters, however the try comes throughout as amateurish.
Ghani has rather a lot to supply once you take a look at the story however the narrative by no means manages to totally give in. Kiran does away with songs for essentially the most half, barring the 2 numbers and two different songs used as a montage (composed by Thaman S), however the movie on the finish of all of it does appear to only coast alongside (with plot factors that make no sense) as a substitute of being the extreme drama it units out to be. Upendra’s character will get lengthy strains and Varun will get punch dialogues however none of them appear to have the specified impact. The movie’s size and the artistic option to maintain many of the boxing matches solely within the second half of the movie additionally proves to be a hindrance.
Varun Tej has given higher performances than he does in Ghani, but it surely’s not his fault as a result of he doesn’t actually get the scope to take action. His character is put in conditions, fact is withheld from him and he appears to be the final particular person in a room to know something – which supplies him solely the area to react. Nevertheless, you do discover the onerous work he has put in in relation to his physique and even the boxing scenes. Saiee’s function seems to be inconsequential within the longer run and he or she does an okay job, whereas Nadhiya, Suniel and Uppendra breeze via theirs. Thaman’s music doesn’t depart a lot of an impression, barring the title track.
Ghani is a good sports activities drama, however that’s all it finally ends up being – first rate. The movie doesn’t present something you haven’t seen earlier than. Watch it this weekend if sports activities dramas are your factor, however with expectations in test.
