Fly Musicment India Pvt. Ltd.’s Ek Hakikat Ganga (UA) is about a child widow.
Ganga is widowed in her childhood. The story traces the hardships she has to face in life because she is a widow.
Ritesh Bora has penned a clichéd story and a hackneyed screenplay. The relevance of child marriage, widowhood etc. is so alien to the city audience today that the film will find no takers in the cities. Even viewers in small towns and ‘C’ class centres will not find the drama interesting or engaging. Emotions, comedy, romance are all conspicuous by their absence. Usmaan Abbasi and Ritesh Bora’s dialogues are pathetic.
Ritesh Bora, as Aniket, is weak. Rachna Suyal is ordinary in the role of Ganga. Raza Murad does an ordinary job in the role of Thakur. Pramod Moutho hardly impresses as Rajveer. Ali Khan is dull as Devinder Pratap. Gauri Shankar (as Master), Ajay Upadhyay (as Viren), Usmaan Abbasi (as Laakha), Sapna (as Maa), and Mahendra (as Kesar Singh) lend weak support. Bhagyashree is ordinary as young Ganga.
Ritesh Bora’s direction is terribly poor. Milen-Haresh’s music is dull. Song picturisations (by Ritesh Bora and Varun Singh) are weak. Camerawork (by T.K. Parandhaman) is dull. Art direction (by Vishnu Morya, Sanjay, Ramdas, Vicky and Raj) is functional. Reem Arts’ (Asif Khan) editing is loose.
On the whole, Ek Hakikat Ganga belongs to an era long gone by. As such, it will be rejected by the audience.
Released on 12-4-’19 at Movie Star (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru Prince Movies. Publicity & opening: very dull. …….Also released all over. Opening was poor everywhere.