Shankar’s ‘Game Changer’, with Ram Charan, is an underwhelming and predictable rehash of the corruption theme

The film does not have a single highlight, and the big budget does not translate into an interesting story or involving characters. The rest of this review contains spoilers.

Sometimes, when you visit someone’s house, you see a wall with certificates and records of achievements. It’s as though the person is reminding us that these are peaks that he or she has scaled in life. Shankar does something similar through his visuals and plotlines in Game Changer. He gives us a cleavage joke and reminds us of Gentleman. He shows us an invisible man with dancing shoes and says: “I am the filmmaker who made Kadhalan.” He gives us the back-and-forth finger-roll on a bald head and reminds us of Sivaji. He gives us a spin on the “one-day CM” concept and reminds us of Mudhalvan. In the Jaragandi song sequence, he gives us the coloured roads and houses and a million dancers. He gives us drones that recall the Robot films. What he forgets to do is make us remember why we regarded him so much. 

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