The Ghost movie review

One look at the poster of the Akkineni Nagarjuna starrer, The Ghost, where a group of people clad in suits seem to be begging for forgiveness in front of the protagonist, whose stature seems as tall as Big Ben which is in the background, seems to suggest that it is a movie about an ex special ops guy who seems to be on a vengeful mission. It was released the same day as the Chiranjeevi and Salman Khan starrer, Godfather, but disappeared from theaters like the name of the movie.

The main issue with the movie is that there is no consistency or single theme that the movie wanted to explore. Nagarjuna plays the role of an Interpol field agent in Dubai, who has anger management issues because of mental trauma that he suffered as a child. Following a botched rescue mission, he resigns from his job, breaks up with his fellow agent, who also happens to be his girlfriend, and apparently decides to wipe out the underworld from Dubai as a free agent. The viewer also finds out that the protagonist was adopted by a cop who had saved him from the riot, and that his step sister (Gul Panag) was married to a billionaire industrialist, and that she is running the firm after the death of her husband. The protagonist has a step niece, who is a spoilt child, and does not listen to any good advice. Gul Panag's character calls up the protagonist and informs him that she had been getting death threats, and that she cannot trust even her security. The protagonist offers to help since he had made a promise to his dad on his death bed that he would protect his sister.

The next hour of the movie is a poor mish-mash of a whodunnit involving the death of Gul Panag's character, the protagonist's efforts to make his niece become a mature and responsible person, a love story with his ex-girlfriend, Interpol's involvement in the matters at hand, and a poorly showcased backstory of the protagonist wiping out the mafia in Dubai. Praveen Sattaru, the director of the movie, does a poor job of handling the multiple themes in the movie, and the result is a script that barely keeps the viewer engaged. There is a stupid twist also at the end of the movie, but the viewer would have lost interest in any of it by then. The action sequences were poor, the music was forgettable, and the acting was average.

Overall, it is a movie that barely registers in the mind of the viewer.