MOVIE: THE GHOST 

Starring: Akkineni Nagarjuna, Sonal Chauhan, Gul panag, Anikha Surendran,Manish Chaudhari, Ravi Varma, Shrikanth Iyyangar, Bilal Hossein

Director: Praveen Sattaru

Producers: Suniel Narang, Puskur Ram Mohan Rao, Sharrath Marar

Music Director : Mark k Robin

Cinematography : Mukesh G

Editor : Dharmendra Kakarala

RELEASE DATE: 05-09-2022

King Nagarjuna is best known for doing new zoner, unique kind and experimental films. He was given his best when it comes to bringing new genre films to silver screen.

This time, he has joined hands with the stylish filmmaker Praveen Sattaru for an action thriller, THE GHOST.

The Ghost film hit the screens today on the eve of Vijaya dasami.

Let’s see how it is.

Story & screenplay view:

Vikram (Nagarjuna) is an Interpol officer who works along with his love interest Priya (Sonal Chauhan) in Dubai. While everything is going fine in his professional life, some incidents disturb Vikram mentally and he leaves Priya.

After 5 years, One fine day, he receives a call from Anu (Gul Panag) stating a concern over her daughter Aditi’s life and she asks Vikram to solve the problem.

Who is this Anu?

Why did she seek the help of Vikram only?

Who is causing a threat to Anu and Aditi?

Watch the film in theatres only to know the above answers.

THE GHOST Plus Points View:

Nagarjuna is one of the very few actors who doesn’t shy away from doing different kinds of roles. He has proved this multiple times in his career.

Now The Ghost, the actor has once again shown his stamina as a trained police officer. His performance as Vikram is one of the biggest assets of the film and the veteran actor carried the film on his shoulders from start frame to end frame.

The Ghost action sequences composed in this film are one of the best in recent times and definitely they deserve a special mention. They look stylish and give us goosebump moments in some interesting fight scenes.

kudos to Nagarjuna for doing such risky stunts convincingly in this age. The film is completely filled with many such terrific action scenes.

Sonal Chauhan isn’t just glamour doll, but her role has a good scope to show her action. Her efforts are visible in the action scenes and the actress did a fine job and impresses the ever one..

The rest of the cast like Anika Surendran, Gul Panag, Ravi Varma, and Srikanth Iyengar did their part well.

While the film is just so brilliant with the action part, the drama and the story isn’t that great and brings down the staggering impact created by fights. The emotional angle looks artificial and a bit forced and this does not connect us with the film that well.

The villain’s characterization is pretty weak in The Ghost. A solid villain was very much needed especially when the protagonist is going all guns blazing. Sadly, that doesn’t happen here.

We would get a feeling that the hero’s job is being done without much struggle from the Villans gang.

The story gets predictable after some point in the last hour and the screen-play from thereon doesn’t get any better to make the proceedings interesting.

There are some mind-boggling scenes in between but the way they are placed doesn’t add much value to the GHOST story line.

THE GHOST Technical Aspects View:

MUSIC composer duo Bharatt-Saurabh’s music is decent in songs but when it comes to the background score by Mark K Robin, he did a fantastic job. The BGM in a few action blocks raises the curiosity and adds value.

The cinematographer Mukesh G is extraordinary. Few frames gives us Hollywood film look and his camera LENS & ANGLES added huge depth to this action thriller.

The production values are staggering and the makers spent highly on the film to make it look elegant. As mentioned earlier, the action choreographers are the major assets and add the required depth besides giving adrenaline rush moments.

Coming to director Praveen Sattaru, he partly succeeded with The Ghost. While he was superb at handling the fight scenes, the core emotional part took a back seat. Had he taken more care on this part, things would have been a lot better. Also, his narrative isn’t that gripping in the latter hour which takes the film down.

18F movies team Opinion:

The Ghost is a partly engaging action thriller with stylish action sequences. The lack of proper emotional scenes, weak antagonist, and predictable storyline make it a little uncomfortable film.

If you are English action films LOVER….THE GHOST FILM IS A VISUAL FEAST.

18F Movies Rating: 2.5/5

Review by Krishna Pragada.