Ganga Telugu Movie

Feature Film | 2015 | UA
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Audience:
Ganga is a old wine stuffed in to a new bottle. The movie has nothing novel even in its third installment and suffers the same mediocrity as the previous versions. However Lawerence like Srinu Vaitla know the pulse of mass audience and has got the comedy and routine horror scenes required to excite the audience. The B,C audience will embrace the films for those elements while A and Multiplex audience will find it tough to sit all along.
May 1, 2015 By NR


Nandini (Taapsee Pannu) works for a struggling regional TV channel, Green TV owned by Suhasini Maniratnam. The owner highlights a program on spirituality being a huge success, to counter its growth Nandini proposes a new show to fabricate wraith stories which will as well increase the TRP ratings of Green TV. They finalize a location at Bheemili for the first episode and Nandini goes there with cameraman Raghava (Lawerence) and crew to shoot the haunting program.


However on the first day, Nandini happens to find a thaali and sacks it top offer it at some holy place and all of sudden some strange things start happening as ghosts come back to haunt the crew. What is the flash back of the ghost? and what finally happens to the team forms the rest of the story-line.


Tapsee was missing from Telugu screen for along time but this time she made up the absence with the role of Nandini. She gets everything right - make up, mannerisms and dialogue delivery. Ganga will be a career defining moment for Tapsee. Nithya Menen has a surprise in store for the audience and she is the best thing happened in the predictive climax. Raghava Lawrence just cake walks in to the character which close remblances his previous outings in Muni and Kanchana. Kovai Sarala is good but it is too loud. Pooja Ravichandran, Madhumita, Sriman, Manobala, Motta Rajendran, Renuka are good in their roles.


Director Raghava Lawerence a master in dealing with horror comedies after the success of Muni and Kanchana. Ganga is an exact template of the previous films but is enriched with more horror and comedy. However the main problem is the predictability. The director has complete hold on the proceedings till the first half but struggles in the second. Particularly, the flash back episodes which were strengths of Muni and Kanchana but in Ganga, it is just average.


Coming to the technicalities, predictable story, unnecessary flashy voices, extremely loud music by Thaman, not so impressive songs by Leon James, C Sathya & Ashwamithra are the draw backs. Cinematography is okay and Visual Effects are not upto the mark. The editor could have easily trimmed down repetitive scenes in the first & the second half. It may noted that the Telugu version is already 12-15 minutes shorter than the original version. Production Values of Sri Sai Ganesh Productions are good.


Finally Ganga is a old wine stuffed in to a new bottle. The movie has nothing novel even in its third installment and suffers the same mediocrity as the previous versions. However Lawerence like Srinu Vaitla know the pulse of mass audience and has got the comedy and routine horror scenes required to excite the audience. The B,C audience will embrace the films for those elements while A and Multiplex audience will find it tough to sit all along.


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