Duration – 108 minutes, Category – love story, Scoring – 3/5

Title – Gajanana and Gang, Producer – US Nagesh Kumar, Direction – Abhishek Shetty, Music – Pradyothan, Cinematography – Uday Leela, Cast – Sri Mahadev, Aditi Prabhudeva, Natyaranga, Chetan Durga, Bro Gowda, Vijeth Chandra, Vijay Chendur, Suchendra Prasad, Ashwin Haasan, Raghu, Vardhan and others.

Producer US Nagesh Kumar has made a careful step this time after ‘Nam Gani B Com Pass’. He is caught up with the formula to go ahead. For this, Abhishek Shetty with his experience in college days gathered good attention and made a brief and tidy film.

The college life pranks, golden moments, love, sacrifice, seriousness, belief, disbelief, some action, betrayals add up in this film that is worth watching.

Four students and an exam issue is the base for this film. As the semester exam is fast approaching the tension builds up. The question paper leak in this case alerts the students and makes up for leaked question paper. The shock is when they get a different question paper.

This is the examination flashback and now the story tickles to main protagonist Gaja (Sri Mahadev) new admission to the college. Three more fresh students befriend Gaja and there is Sahitya in the same college.  There is a Khadak principal, a short temper, sober lecturer and the seniors of the college have well maintained waves. Gaja and Sahitya fall in love despite hiccups in the campus.

There is one person in the Gaja gang who is the troubleshooter and what trouble Gaja and friends face, what happens to Sahitya, friends power in maintaining trouble handled in the later part of the narration.

In his second film director, Abhishek Shetty handled various emotions besides giving a message of what happens when the dream goes on a shoddy route. This film gathers the attention of students.

‘College Ranga’ by Puttanna Kanagal sometimes strikes the mind. But this is a different kind of tale of the 21^st century.

Sri Mahadev has good looks and emotes well, Aditi Prabhudeva is very good in her portions. Senior actors also contributed well to the film`s strength.

There are a few good tunes from Pradyothan. Cinematography conquers attention from Uday Leela. The editing pattern and quickness is laudable.

This is worth watching once.