Gaddalakonda Ganesh Explained

Gaddalakonda Ganesh
Director:Harish Shankar
Producer:Ram Achanta
Gopichand Achanta
Screenplay:Madhu Srinivas
Mithun Chaitanya
Decat:yes
Child:yes
Label1:Dialogues by
Story:Karthik Subbaraj
Starring:Varun Tej Konidela
Atharvaa
Pooja Hegde
Mirnalini Ravi
Music:Mickey J. Meyer
Cinematography:Ayananka Bose
Editing:Chota K. Prasad
Studio:14 Reels Plus Entertainment
Runtime:172 minutes
Country:India
Language:Telugu
Budget:[1]
Gross: crores[2]

Gaddalakonda Ganesh is a 2019 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film[3] directed by Harish Shankar and produced by Ram Achanta and Gopichand Achanta under the 14 Reels Plus banner.[4] The film is an official remake of the 2014 Tamil film Jigarthanda which itself was inspired by the 2006 South Korean movie A Dirty Carnival.[5] [6] [7] The film stars Varun Tej Konidela, Atharvaa, Pooja Hegde, and Mirnalini Ravi. The film marks the Telugu debut of Atharvaa and Mirnalini Ravi.[8] [9] Principal photography began in December 2011 and wrapped in December 2011. The film has music composed by Mickey J. Meyer, cinematography was handled by Ayananka Bose, and editing by Chota K. Prasad.

Gaddalakonda Ganesh was released on 18 January 2019. The film received positive response from both critics and audiences praising cast performances (particularly Varun Tej and Pooja Hegde), action, direction, story and screenplay.[10] The film was commercially successful, grossing 45 crore at the box office.[11] Initially titled Valmiki, the title was changed to Gaddalakonda Ganesh after several controversies and a legal dispute.

Plot

In a cinema studio, an assistant director who aspires to become a film director named Abhilash, aka Abhi is insulted by one of the directors, and there he challenges that he will become a good director with a good film in a few days. Another producer likes Abhi's hard work and suggests that he do a gangster movie. He decides to direct the biopic of a gangster. In search of a gangster, he finds the ruthless gangster named Gaddalakonda Ganesh, aka Gani lives in the town of Gaddalakonda. Abhi lands in Gaddalakonda and starts learning about Gani with the help of his friend Chintakayyi. Abhi traps Bujjama, the granddaughter of Gani's chef and she falls in love with Abhi, who realises this and reciprocates her feelings. After some hilarious scenes, Abhi and Chintakayyi befriends Thuppaki, one of Gani's henchmen. Later the duo learns that the Thuppaki is helping Prabhakar, one of Gani's rivals, to kill Gani for the position of Gani. However, Gani acknowledges this, and plans to kill Thuppaki. Gani also kidnaps Abhi and his friend. Abhi says the truth, and Gani feels happy that they were taking the biopic of him, and he narrates the whole story, including his criminal activities. From childhood, Gani starts beating people for money. Later he does settlements for M.L.A. Gani, also a fan of Sridevi. Later, Gani falls for Sridevi, aka Devi, a computer student, but she doesn't accept him because of his aimless behaviour. Later she also reciprocates his feelings after he rescues her from ragging. But Devi's father refuses to accept their relationship due to the caste system. Devi and Gani decide to elope from Gaddalakonda, and Gani refuses to kill someone for the M.L.A because he wants to leave behind his rowdyism. The M.L.A informs the police about Gani's whereabouts. The police come to the railway station and beat up Gani while Devi's father threatens Devi to marry the bridegroom whom he chose, otherwise he will order the police to kill Gani. Devi reluctantly marries a police officer who belongs to her caste. Another M.L.A, with the lawyer, comes to the police station and says that Gani's M.L.A had informed the police of Gani's whereabouts. He then goes to his M.L.A and slits his throat in front of his mother. Then Gani's mother complains against him. But Gani claims in court that his mother is a mute. From that day onwards, she refuses to speak with Gani.

Now, Bujjama learns about Abhi and confronts the latter. In the party for Abhi returning to Hyderabad, Bujjama expected Gani to act as a protagonist in his biopic. Gani agrees against to Abhi's wishes. However, Abhi changes his mind by listening to the theatre operator's words and his passion about directing a movie, but he can't do it due to his bad adaptation. Then Abhi appoints the acting coach Muni Manikyam for Gani and his gang. Later the acting coach praises Gani for his acting skill due to his ruthless behaviour, and also the acting coach humiliated Gani and his gang while they were training.

The shooting begins. The title of the film is Settimaar. By understanding the difficulties in directing the movie, Bujjama reconciles with Abhi. But things take a turn when Gani also changes his mind and falls for Bujjama. In the audio launch, Gani announced that he gifted a villa to Abhi and wants to marry Bujjama.

The movie is released and opens with a tremendous response. At the same time, Abhi elopes with Bujjama. Gani learns of this and decides to kill Abhi. Meanwhile, Gani's craze increases due to his acting skills. The people who fear Gani are now asking for selfies with him and his autograph. The little daughter of Thuppaki, who also fears when Gani comes to fondle her, gives a kiss and praises his acting skills. Gani's mother, who refused to talk to him in the past, speaks to him. By seeing all these, Gani spares Abhi and Bujjama and gives up his rowdy career. Prabhakar's henchman asks him to include him in Gani's next movie, which is being directed by Sukumar. Abhi's paternal uncle (Devi Prasad) takes Gani's criminal evidence (tape recorder and files) and hands it over to the D.C.P, who turns out to be Devi's husband. Devi takes the evidence (tape recorder) and grinds it in a blender. When the D.C.P asks Devi why she had ground the evidence, She replies that it's because the D.C.P couldn't keep his promise to not incriminate Gani, for which in return Devi wouldn't think about Gani. This indicates that Devi still loves Gani. Later, Devi also praises him. Abhi uses Gani's gang for threatening stars like Nithin to act in his film. Abhi marries Bujjama, and Gani remains single.

Cast

Production

Development

In early November 2018, it was reported that Harish Shankar was to remake the critically acclaimed Tamil-language film Jigarthanda (2014).[15] That December, Varun Tej was reported to play lead role in the film.[16] In early January 2019, Varun revealed that he was approached for the role, but the final call was still on-going.[17] Tej revealed that many people had cautioned him and asked him not to sign the film, since his role has negative shades. So he took the script to Chiranjeevi and didn't ask him if he was going to play the hero or villain and told him that the script was good and that he should go ahead and sign the project. So he signed the film immediately.[18]

Harish said "After DJ, I wanted to go ahead with an urban love story on the lines of Fidaa and Tholi Prema with Varun Tej and pitched the script of Dagudu Muthalu. But he was looking to break his lover boy image and is keen to do a mass entertainer in my signature style".[19] After eight hour long discussion both decided to remake Jigarthanda.[20]

The project was produced by Ram Achanta and Gopichand Achanta under their banner 14 Reels Plus Entertainment.[21] The company made a public announcement on 25 January 2018,[22] confirming the project, and the film's official title Valmiki was revealed on 27 January 2018.[23] [24]

Pre-production

Karthik Subbaraj gave the original story and Harish Shankar made some changes to original story, later Mithun Chaitanya and Madhu Srinivas scripted the film.[25] Dialogues were written by Harish himself.[26]

Prior to the start of film production, both Harish and Tej worked with each other six months for making changes from the original film and character developer. "One of the major changes that we have done to this character, originally essayed by Bobby Simha, was give him a backstory to justify why he had become like that. In the original version, Bobby Simha didn’t have a baggage to play that role and he was terrific. But Harish opined that since I had been playing lead roles in the past few years, giving a strong backstory will make it easier for the audience to accept me playing a bad guy. That’s how Pooja Hegde came onboard and she has an interesting role to play in the second half of the story. All the details about my look, the dialect I’m going to use, and body language emerged from the long conversations I have had with Harish during this phase", Tej added.[27]

Devi Sri Prasad was initially roped in to compose the score for the film.[28] But later Mickey J Meyer signed to compose music for the film. Harish further retained most of his norm technicians including cinematographer Ayananka Bose, editor Chota K. Prasad, stunt choreography duo Ram Lakshman, dance choreographer Sekhar and art director Avinash Kolla.[29] [30] The film's launch event with a puja ceremony was held on 27 January 2019 at Ramanaidu Studios,[31] which saw the attendance of noted personalities from the Telugu film industry.[32] Sukumar, V. V. Vinayak, Dil Raju, Niharika Konidela graced the event as chief guests, along with film's cast and crew.[33] [34]

Casting

Varun Tej portrays the title character Gaddalakonda Ganesh, a gangster, and sported a bearded look for his role in the film.[35] [36] About his role Tej said "I don't see a character as positive or negative. Any role that excites me and makes feel I’m doing something different, I do it. This character got me excited from the minute I heard the narration."[37] He learned Telangana dialect for his role and also gained informed from Pawan Kalyan.[38]

In February 2019, Pooja Hegde was confirmed to play the female lead,[39] marking her second collaboration with both Tej and shekhar after Mukunda (2014) and DJ (2017) respectively.[40] [41] "Pooja's character, the 'innocent but feisty' Sridevi, wasn't part of the original. I got her in because I wanted to see how Ganesh would react to having a girl in his life. People will love her in the Velluvachi Godaramma remix that we shot at Yanam," Harish on Hegde's character.[42] Hegde felt that she was "excited to play a super special character in this film".[43]

Atharvaa was reported to be playing an aspiring film maker in the film.[44] [45] Mirnalini Ravi was reported to play supporting role in the film and was paired opposite Atharvaa.[46] The film marked the Telugu film debut of both Atharvaa and Mirnalini.[47] [48]

Brahmanandam and Rao Ramesh joined the casts to play cameo roles, and Sukumar and Nithiin joined the casts for guest appearance.[49] [50]

Filming

Principal photography the film began from February 2019.[51] Atharvaa joined on set for shooting in March 2019.[52] In late-March, it was reported that Varun Tej would join the sets in mid-April 2019.[53] Later, he joined the sets on 16 April 2019.[54] [55] In May, footage of Tej was leaked and went viral.[56] Tej met with accident while travelling from Hyderabad to Kurnool to take part in shooting of the film.[57] [58] In mid-June 2018, Harish Shankar tweeted that filming was happening at Yaganti temple.[59]

In July 2019, while shooting in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh, the Boya community halted the film's shoot.[60] Later the production moved to Chevella, Hyderabad.[61] In late-July 2019, Pooja Hegde joined the sets.[62] In early-August, Hollywood cinematographer Robert Richardson visited the film's set.[63] [64] A song featuring Pooja Hegde and Tej was shot on the banks of Godavari River at Rajahmundry in late-August.[65] Principal photography wrapped by 4 September 2019.[66] [67]

Post-production

Post-production of the film began simultaneously with the wrapping-up and continuation of film production.[68] Dubbing works of the film began in August 2019.[69] Varun Tej had put in extra efforts to dub for the pre-interval sequence. "I took an entire day to dub for it. Like the original, Valmiki too has a run-time of around three hours", he added.[70]

VFX works of the film was done by EFX. Trailer cut was done in late-August by A Ravi and Aswin Siyadri and was over by early-September 2019.[71] [72] On 19 September 2019, the film received a U/A certificate from the Censor Board, with a finalised runtime of 173 minutes.[73]

Marketing

In June 2019, 14 Reels Plus released pre teaser on social media platforms.[74] On 15 August 2019 the team released official teaser[75] and started promoting by releasing singles from the album.[76] The official trailer of the film was unveiled by 14 Reels Plus on 9 September 2019 and trailer launch event was held on the same day in Hyderabad.[77] [78]

As part of film's promotion, in collaboration with Hyderabad Metro, the production's marketing team placed advertisements on Hyderabad Metro trains.[79] On 15 September 2018, a grand pre-release event for the film took place in Hyderabad at Shilpakala Vedika,[80] with Venkatesh as the chief guest.[81] [82]

Music

See main article: article and Gaddalakonda Ganesh (soundtrack). The soundtrack is composed by Mickey J. Meyer. The song "Elluvochi Godaramma" is a remix of the song "Elluvachi Godaramma" from the 1982 film Devatha. The film marks Meyer's second collaboration with Harish after Subramanyam for Sale (2015). The film featured four tracks with lyrics written by Bhaskarabhatla, Vanamali, Chandrabose and Veturi Sundararama Murthy.[83] The soundtrack album was released by Sony Music India on 5 September 2019. The initial release contained only three tracks; the fourth one was excluded as it was released under the record label Saregama.[84] The release coincided with a promotional event held in Hyderabad to promote film's fourth single "Elluvochi Godaramma".[85]

Controversies

Valmiki being from Boya Community, many people from that community protested against changing the name of the film as they are showing the lead actor in a negative role.[86]

The release of the film was stalled in Anantapur and Kurnool districts of Andhra Pradesh by their respective district collectors as the Boya community was protesting for title change of the film.[87] In January 2019, Boya Hakkula Porata Samithi filed a petition in the Telangana High Court and Andhra Pradesh Valmiki Boya Sangam (APVBS)[88] In AP High Court with PIL No:139/2019 by State General Secretary Kranthi Naidu Boya contending that the title hurt sentiments as the name of a great saint as Valmiki was being used for a character that donning the role of a villain.[89]

Due to many controversies over the film's title and release stalling in some areas, the title was changed to Gaddalakonda Ganesh only 6 hours prior to the release of the film.[4] [90]

Release

Theatrical

The film was initially scheduled to be released on 13 September 2019,[91] [92] however it was postponed to 20 September due to production delays.[93]

Home media

The film's digital rights were acquired by Disney+ Hotstar and started streaming on Hotstar VIP from 4 November 2019.[94] [95] The original Telugu-language version of the film was premiered on television on 12 January 2020 on Star Maa, and registered a television rating point of 12.75 according to Broadcast Audience Research Council, becoming the Varun Tej'a most viewed film.[96]

The Hindi dubbed version was premiered on Dhinchaak TV channel on 6 March 2022. Despite being a remake of the Tamil film Jigarthanda, was also dubbed in Tamil as Kazhugumalai Ganesan in 2021. The film was also dubbed and released in Malayalam as Gajarakota Ganesha in 2022.[97]

Reception

Critical response

Gaddalakonda Ganesh received positive response from both critics and audiences praising cast performances (particularly Varun Tej and Pooja Hegde), action, direction, story and screenplay.[10]

Neeshita Nyayapati writing for The Times of India has given 3.5/5 rating praising Varun Tej's performance as gangster.[12] A critic of The Hans India rated the film 3 out of 5 stars calling it "worth watching film" and wrote "Though this is a remake film, the director has succeeded in making the necessary changes and made the film really interesting. The movie starts off on an interesting note and the entire first half is filled with the some action sequences and the story of the gangster."[98]

Rating the film with 3 out of 5 stars, Jeevi of Idlebrain.com wrote "Harish Shankar takes the Tamil cult classic Jigarthanda and gives a mass tweak to it by changing the PoV from hero to villain. Varun Tej adds a new weapon to his armoury with this film. Plus points of the film are Varun Tej and mass elements."[99]

Banda Kalyan writing for Sakshi gave 3/5 rating point out the only drawback of the film is forced comedy and how people are simply laughing onscreen while watching a film about a gangster.[100] Reviewing the film a 123 Telugu critic rated with 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "On the whole, Gaddalakonda Ganesh is a passable mass drama which has a few good moments. Varun Tej leads from the front with his solid performance and rocking makeover. The fun generated works in places and keeps the audience engaged."[101]

Sankeertana Varma from Film Companion noted"The entertaining film is packed with inside jokes, but a laugh is inevitably followed by a wince".[102] Sangeetha Devi writing for The Hindu suggested this adaptation raises a toast to the cinema, more importantly showcases the power of the director.[103] Hemanth Kumar CR of Firstpost wrote "Varun Tej’s makeover as a fierce gangster is Gaddhalakonda Ganesh’s biggest USP and Harish Shankar taps into the actor’s energy to add zing into this film"[104]

Box office

Gaddalakonda Ganesh had higher occupancy on its opening day.[105] [106] The film netted 16 crore in its opening weekend.[107] The film grossed 45 crore in its theatrical run with over 25 crore as distribution share, becoming a commercial successful.[108]

Accolades

AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipient(s)Result
South Indian International Movie Awards18 September 2021Best ActorVarun Tej[109]
Best Supporting Actor – TeluguAtharvaa
Best Supporting Actress – TeluguMirnalini Ravi
Best Music Director – TeluguMickey J. Meyer
Santosham Film Awards14 November 2021Best DirectorHarish Shankar[110]
Best Male Playback SingerS. P. Balasubrahmanyam

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