Ganga Cauvery Movie Review

BT Rating: (1.5/5)

Soulless Visual Treat

Ganga Kaveri Movie Review By Raju Shanbhag

Producer RV Venkatappa has taken all the care to ensure that the quality of the film Ganga Cauvery is good. He has got veteran cameramen H. C Venu for the cinematography, he pours his heard earned money to shoot in the beautiful locales in the plateaus of Himalaya, and he gets hold of veteran actors like Anant Nag and Ramesh Bhat to act in his film. But writer director Vishnukanth, like a man possessed, sabotages all that effort with his unimaginative screenplay and thoughtless direction.

Our hero Arjun (Akshay) is about to get married to Cauvery (Mallika Kapoor) and she wants him to collect some info on Ganga. Arjun is off to Himalaya in a jiffy and soon engages in a scuffle with some Himalayan extras who jump from treetops and go flying back there when Arjun kicks them. All doesn’t end well and Arjun falls in a 250 feet chasm (how did I know the exact depth? Well, the producer has advertised in all the newspapers!).

Enter Ganga (Mahi) who saves Arjun and takes him and his perplexingly undamaged camera to her hut. Her father is a doctor and he has a heart of gold. He lets his young and arguably beautiful daughter to bathe Arjun, lets her sleep very near to him and makes sure that he himself is nowhere in sight. Circumstances and a provocatively dressed Ganga force Arjun to forget all about Cauvery and promise Ganga that he will marry her.

Whom does he marry in the end? Well, what difference does it make to your life?

Anyone could have written the script of Ganga Cauvery, but it seems no one did. The film drags on its own and does whatever it feels like for most part. Newcomer Akshay has to improve tremendously if he wants to act in any other films that his father’s. Mallika Kapoor and Mahi are just about ok. Veterans Ananath Nag, Ramesh Bhat, Roopa Devi etc are the saving graces in the acting department. Journalist R. G Vijayasarathi appears in two frames without any dialogues and that’s that only time you appreciate director Vishnukanth’s skills as a director. Sharan does well and he is a good comedian in progress.

A couple’s wonderful talent been royally wasted in this film. Cinematographer H C Venu’s refreshing camera work looks completely incongruous to the film and it appears like an Armani suit on a street side beggar. His wife, the immensely talented Tara, struggles to speak chaste Hindi and looks awkward in the process.

Watch Ganga Cauvery only if you want to see the beautiful locales on the shores of the Ganga.