Ganapath

<p>In the year 2070, leaves the world divided by a towering wall, with the rich people residing in a city called led by the Dalini, while the poor people survives in a destroyed city and struggles for basic necessities as it was controlled by the Silver City. Meanwhile, Guddu resides in the Silver City and works for Dalini’s henchmen John, who conducts matches and earns money through the bets placed by the rich people. One day, John tells Guddu to take Dimple, John’s girlfriend, to a nightclub as he is busy on a meeting. Dimple gets physical with Guddu, where John catches them red-handed and buries them alive. Guddu miraculously survives and Kaizad asks him to move away to the city of poor people and meet Shiva, a combat trainer. Guddu learns that he is actually Ganapath, a legendary of the poor people, as predicted by Maharishi Dalapathi. Guddu receives under Shiva and his confidante Jassi, where he ultimately embraces himself as Ganapath and deceives John, Dalini and their into believing that he is on their side. Trained as an accomplished , Guddu wins matches for them, while pretending to Jassi and Shiva that he is uninterested in their cause. After securing victories in most of his matches, Guddu persuades John and Dalini’s associate to bet their money on his opponent in the final match as Guddu plans to lose intentionally in the match. Guddu also convinces them to allow the poor to wager their savings on this match, where John and his associates to profit further by snatching money from the poor people, leaving them in a miserable state. However, this is Guddu’s way of exacting revenge as he intends to follow a different course. While releasing Jassi from her confinement, Guddu discreetly instructs her to encourage the poor people to place their savings on the match. Guddu executes the plan, which he shared with John, easily dominating his opponent in the first two rounds. In the third round, Guddu feigns defeat, but realises that John has placed his and Dalini’s money on the opponent. Guddu stages a comeback and defeats his opponent, causing substantial losses to John and Dalini. Guddu subsequently reveals his actions on television, watched by both the poor and rich people, and confesses that Shiva is his biological father. Guddu tells that he has given a chance for the poor people to challenge the rich people with their winnings, while donning the mantle of Ganapath. Guddu also challenges Dalini to reveal himself, where Dalini reveals himself as Guddu’s and it is revealed that Dalini is actually a form of . Guddu challenges Dalini to a fight, thus hinting a sequel titled . The film was announced on 6 November 2020 by , to be directed by Aditya Kumar starring . It was originally supposed to release in parts, and had a of , though this plan was abandoned and the film was re-titled . Though a sequel is still teased at the ending of the film titled . The film marks the collaboration of Sanon and Shroff after nine years since their Hindi film debut in (2014). It was produced by Pooja Entertainment in association of GoodCo. The began on 2 November 2021 in United Kingdom. In May 2022, the final schedule was held in with some additional scenes being shot in February 2023. The film’s shooting was wrapped up by August 2023. The music of the film is composed by , , and . The background score is composed by . The first single titled “Jai Ganesha” was released on 18 September 2023 on the occasion of . The second single titled “Hum Aaye Hain” was released on 5 October 2023. On 13 October 2023, the entire album consisting was released by . The film was initially supposed to release on 23 December 2022, coinciding with Christmas Eve, but was later postponed and was released theatrically on 20 October 2023, during , in Hindi, along with the dubbed versions in , , and languages. received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics. On the website , 18% of 11 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.5/10. The film received negative reviews from audiences. gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote ” fails to impress due to a clichéd storyline, poor VFX and predictable second half.” Renuka Vyavahare of gave 2.5/5 stars and wrote “In a world where the rich are getting richer and poor, poorer, Ganapath imitates our hard-hitting reality but feels like a huge potential wasted.” Avinash Lohana of gave 2/5 stars and wrote “This futuristic drama headlined by Tiger Shroff and Kriti Sanon needed to do some solid work in the past before bringing it to the audience.” Saibal Chatterjee of gave 1.5/5 stars and wrote “Ganapath is painfully pea-brained pulp that makes a meal of a terribly thin storyline.” Bhavna Agarwal of gave 1.5/5 stars and wrote “‘Ganapath’ offers absolutely no respite. If you expect it to get better in the second half as are often heard saying ‘you are in delulu’.” later included the film as one of the five worst Hindi films of 2023. Hiren Kotwani of gave 1.5/5 stars and wrote “What makes Ganapath different from the saviour-hero films of yore is that director Bahl has tried to make it look like the desi of sorts, albeit with unimpressive design and poor packaging”. Swetha Ramakrishnan of gave 1.5/5 stars and wrote “Ganapath is a dated Hindi film with an identity crisis. It is a scary mish-mash of tropes “borrowed” from films like , , and . of gave 1/5 stars and wrote “What comes as a surprise is just how terrible this film is, with practically no redeeming feature in its nearly two and half hours run-time.” She later included the film as one of the worst films of 2023. Anuj Kumar of wrote “Tiger Shroff kicks and moves the way only he can, but the Vikas Bahl film doesn’t have the chutzpah to use his talent.” Monika Rawal Kukreja of wrote “Watch Ganapath if you can limit your idea of watching a film to some brilliant dance and action moves, and don’t expect anything beyond this.”</p>