Ganapath review: Tiger Shroff fights and dances

Directed by Vikas Bahl, Ganapath- A Hero is Born revolves around Guddu aka Ganapath who will supposedly save the poor from poverty and the elites. 

It's very rare that a film renders us utterly speechless because of how bad it is. All films have at least one or two redeeming qualities. But Ganapath has none. The story goes like this: A war happened, rich people stole everything, poor people started looking for the messiah, Guddu aka Ganapath (Tiger Shroff) waltzed in, fought, danced, and somehow even saved the world, some meaningless events occurred in between in the name of plot, the end. This is as detailed as the description gets. 

Between fighting and dancing, Shroff acts sometimes, but it is too forced. The parts where he tries to be sexy come across as especially creepy. Rashin Rahman as Shiva teaches Ganapath how to fight. Kriti Sanon as Jassi, Ganapath's girlfriend is just there. It's as if the director specifically asked the actors to either not act or overact.

The script sounds like the exaggerated stories children tell each other when they are bored. The VFX is highly cringe. The Silver City, where the rich reside, looks straight out of an unoriginal comic book while the Gareebon ki Duniya is just a desert. The rich all wear big collars and colored wigs, while the poor look tribal, wear braids, and cover their bikes with jute. It's as if there was not even an attempt at being original. 

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And I could excuse all this if there was entertainment, but there is none. There is only a desperate attempt at being cool and a truckload of cringe. The protagonist wakes up with 12 girls in his room. His signature dialogues are, "Apun ko na life me sirf dance karna hai, maze karne hai," and "Jab apun ko darr lagta hai na, toh apun bohot maarta hai." To appear sexy, he puts his chain in his mouth and blows (creepy) kisses in the air towards women. He just fights, dances, fights, repeats. 

I am aware that I sound very harsh in my criticism, but this film calls for it because of how it takes its audience for granted. It believes that if you just put a cocky hero, action sequences, repetitive songs, words like Thalapathy and Shiva, and preach a bit, you have a movie at your hands. The audience will love it because they don't care for logic or entertainment. They will take anything as long as you try to make it appear cool. Such movies don't do any homework on how to comment on sensitive issues, how to make your actors act, or how to even make a movie. It's either ignorance or arrogance or both on the filmmakers' part, and that is disrespectful towards the audience. People walking in, even if only for Tiger Shroff, deserve better.

Watch the trailer here:

Ganapath is currently playing in theaters.

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