<p>What happens to your life when your hand doesn't listen to you and does what it wants? A fantastic premise for a film, you'd think. But is only this — the less-explored Alien Hand Syndrome (AHS) — enough to hold the audience for two hours?</p>.<p>You realise from <span class="italic"><em>Sankashtahara Ganapathi</em></span> that it sadly is not.</p>.<p>AHS adds a meta reference to the film. AHS is also called Dr Strangelove syndrome, as one of the memorable characters in the Stanley Kubrick film had this syndrome.</p>.<p>AHS has often been deployed as comic relief in films and Arjun Kumar's Sankashtahara Ganapathi sticks to this treatment.</p>.<p>The film becomes tedious and monotonous after a point, as everyone around the central character Ganapathy aka Gani (Likhit Shetty), except his father (Achyut Kumar) and his friend (Nagabhushana) either derides him or makes fun of him.</p>.<p>All the events around AHS are a drag and the film tries your patience.</p>.<p>Apart from AHS, a couple of ostensibly important issues surface in this film, but they fail to make a mark.</p>.<p>Ganapathy is an MBA graduate but his passion for drawing cartoons makes him quit his job. Life then gets tougher, as he struggles to find job as a cartoonist.</p>.<p>He does manage to get a job as a cartoonist at a newspaper, but soon gets into trouble over a controversial cartoon about a minister.</p>.<p>This interesting turn of events is, however, treated very carelessly, and the narrative seems too disjointed.</p>.<p>Gani soon finds love in the office, in a colleague who used to be a classmate. But when he gathers the courage to express himself, he finds that the girl (Shruti Goradia) is already engaged.</p>.<p>Now the question is: can the AHS help him in any way? Can his love be fulfilled?</p>.<p>A comic take on the father-son relationship is a bit of a relief in the film with Achyut Kumar's good performance as a cool father.</p>.<p>Likhit and Shruti manage their roles satisfactorily. Nagabhushana has great comic timing, as he emerges as a fine actor for sidekick roles.</p>.<p>However, with all the effort that has been put into bringing a rare syndrome to the screen, and create humour around it, the film fails to connect with the audience.</p>
<p>What happens to your life when your hand doesn't listen to you and does what it wants? A fantastic premise for a film, you'd think. But is only this — the less-explored Alien Hand Syndrome (AHS) — enough to hold the audience for two hours?</p>.<p>You realise from <span class="italic"><em>Sankashtahara Ganapathi</em></span> that it sadly is not.</p>.<p>AHS adds a meta reference to the film. AHS is also called Dr Strangelove syndrome, as one of the memorable characters in the Stanley Kubrick film had this syndrome.</p>.<p>AHS has often been deployed as comic relief in films and Arjun Kumar's Sankashtahara Ganapathi sticks to this treatment.</p>.<p>The film becomes tedious and monotonous after a point, as everyone around the central character Ganapathy aka Gani (Likhit Shetty), except his father (Achyut Kumar) and his friend (Nagabhushana) either derides him or makes fun of him.</p>.<p>All the events around AHS are a drag and the film tries your patience.</p>.<p>Apart from AHS, a couple of ostensibly important issues surface in this film, but they fail to make a mark.</p>.<p>Ganapathy is an MBA graduate but his passion for drawing cartoons makes him quit his job. Life then gets tougher, as he struggles to find job as a cartoonist.</p>.<p>He does manage to get a job as a cartoonist at a newspaper, but soon gets into trouble over a controversial cartoon about a minister.</p>.<p>This interesting turn of events is, however, treated very carelessly, and the narrative seems too disjointed.</p>.<p>Gani soon finds love in the office, in a colleague who used to be a classmate. But when he gathers the courage to express himself, he finds that the girl (Shruti Goradia) is already engaged.</p>.<p>Now the question is: can the AHS help him in any way? Can his love be fulfilled?</p>.<p>A comic take on the father-son relationship is a bit of a relief in the film with Achyut Kumar's good performance as a cool father.</p>.<p>Likhit and Shruti manage their roles satisfactorily. Nagabhushana has great comic timing, as he emerges as a fine actor for sidekick roles.</p>.<p>However, with all the effort that has been put into bringing a rare syndrome to the screen, and create humour around it, the film fails to connect with the audience.</p>