Directed by Shankar, Game Changer, like many of his films, is about a messiah who fights for the masses against the system. Ram Charan sets out to become an IAS officer as Kiara Advani wanted this from him. Ram later clashes with Prime Minister Bobbili Mopidevi and becomes Prime Minister himself.
The film contains love, politics, action and drama, but everything is scattered throughout. The glue that connects it all is missing.
What is Game Changer about?
Ram Nandan, on his way to his IAS post in Visakhapatnam, is attacked by a gang involved in sand mining on behalf of Bobbili Mopidevi, son of Chief Minister Bobbili Sathyamoorthy.
Mopidevi always wanted to become the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh; That’s why he ended up killing his father. He later clashes with Ram Nandan, who vows to remove all evildoers from the system.
The heroine is lost
Game Changer has many beautiful scenes put together. On their own, these scenes are a joy to watch, but together they don’t make much sense. For example, the love story between Ram Charan’s Ram Nandan and Kiara Advani’s Deepika is quite well planned. It is a sweet love story where Deepika dislikes Ram’s anger issues and advises him to become an IAS officer so that his anger is channeled for the good of people.
But the way the story unfolds in the second half, Kiara’s character gets lost in the entire political drama.
Too much action doesn’t change the game
Shankar’s film can safely be described as a political action film, but the film loses its focus in some places. The film is bursting with action, but even that doesn’t fit with the plot at times. Action is an essential part of the film, but a line has to be drawn somewhere, right?
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Ram Charan, flying in a helicopter, cuts the ropes of the goons tied to the railway tracks just before the train comes, which is too much to handle.
Characters get lost halfway through
The film also has many irregularities when it comes to characters. It’s sad that Ram’s ‘family’ can’t do anything except in the beginning when his mother says, ‘You have become an IAS now; You used to be an IPS… but when are you going to get married?” To which he responds with anger because he loves Kiara Advani. The family then disappears into oblivion.
Shankar’s Heroes: Part of the system, even above it
In most of Shankar’s films, his heroes do not serve the authorities, as his heroes usually play characters who are part of the system but also above it. Nothing can stop his heroes from curbing the corruption in the system and being a part of it at the same time. Probably the reason for this is that its hero in Game Changer is so diverse. He is a young lover who works on his anger to win Kiara’s love. He is a small-time reformer who wants to eradicate corruption. He is an IPS officer. He is an IAS officer. He later becomes prime minister. It’s almost like watching Shankar’s utopian interwoven film, exactly what people want, with the presence of a star like Ram Charan who could be all that and more in a film that allows him to do it all be what he wants to be.
The past flashbacks make it interesting
In the film, Sathyamoorthy keeps getting flashbacks in which a woman with a son approaches him. These are the wife and son of the man whom Satya killed to become prime minister.
Satya was guilty and hence decided to do everything honestly as CM. The past story makes the boring writing style a little more interesting.
Too much utopia in the game changer
Shankar’s films are all about justice. Deepika tells Ram Nandan not to become an IPS officer because his anger would mean giving justice to people, not through law but by killing people. But as an IAS officer, Ram’s actions are again instantaneous. One signal and the corrupt official is out of position and thrown into the air. One order and the entire mall collapsed. One shot and he’ll eliminate the corruption around the grocery stores. In a monologue he changes the mind of an entire village not to vote for money. There is no doubt that in order to attract audiences to the cinema you have to show a certain degree of utopia, but here too there must be a limit.
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Shankar’s film knows no boundaries. The main character is everything: IAS, then Prime Minister, a good son and even a loyal partner. It is shown as if there is nothing in the film that Ram Charan cannot do. We want to see a utopia, but one that seems achievable. In Shankar’s films there are a large number of such reformers who have constantly changed society. But what’s the point of having the hero fight a problem he’s already struggled with in another film in the past?
The writing falters, but the acting remains impressive
The writing style of the film falters in some places. It seems like a lot of good sequences or characters are written and then forced to fit them together to make sense. The two halves of the story are also in complete contrast to each other. In the first half, Ram Nandan became an IAS to reform the system, but in the second half, the story focuses entirely on electoral politics.
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Game Changer captivated us with good performances. Ram Charan as Ram Nandan does a wonderful job and delivers an impressive performance in a role that needs more variety. Anjali also gives her best for the role but doesn’t get much in return. On the other hand, Kiara managed to get an important character in Game Changer, who did not disappear in the shadow of the hero. She does it well, but after a while she forgets the incorrect spelling.
Shankar has been criticized a lot for his films in the past and it seems like he is trying to improve on his mistakes. However, he still seems confused about what the audience wants and what his gut feeling says. The film can be described as his Come backbut not a game changer at all.
