Directed by Manish Saini, The Great Grand Superhero starring veteran actor Jackie Shroff is a film designed for the young audience with engaging stories that will fascinate them.  The Great Grand Superhero is an attempt to cater to a target group. 

Jackie Shroff in the titular role as The Great Grand Superhero? 

The film centres around Dipu essayed by Mihir Godbole who joins a new school and is desperate to be accepted and fit in. He tells his classmates that his grandfather is a superhero to gain attention. His grandfather is none other than the actor Jackie Shroff. 

He tries to please his grandson until as the matters get too complicated when children demand evidence. Grandpa Jackie Shroff insists that the story is true and with his powers he kicks when aliens attack Earth . The events that follow makes up for the rest of the fantasies in the film .

The film engrosses you in the first half and kind of builds up to open the frame to surprises. However it aims to bring to life the kind of fantasies that children dream of. The Great Grand Superhero feels like it’s a page out of a comic book and the story telling is simple and easy for the children to be engaged in. 

What worked the best is not just the actor Jackie Shroff in the pivotal lead role, but also the star case of gang of child actors, such as Shivansh Chourghe, who plays Dipu’s friend. He has a natural presence on screen and delivers a confident performance. The rest of the young star cast have also contributed significantly in the film.

Jackie Shroff is a perfect fit for The Great Grand Superhero. 

The makers could not have found a better fit than Jackie Shroff for this amazing role. The script smartly incorporates the real life plant loving persona while it adds the authenticity and the warmth of the character in the film. Prateik Simita Patil is the antogaonist and is menacing around and lacks the screen presence as the threat. 

While The Great Grand Superhero doesn’t quite soar high its an era where the children’s cinema has become so rare that an imperfect attempt to deliver a children’s film may deserve appreciation for the efforts.  

Diluting some of the film’s initial charm and momentum, the second half is a mixed bag of VFX on the technical front. It doesn’t build up enough to culminate to what it deserves like the start of the film. 

The climatic battle is between the hero and the villain and typically should have been the highlight but it fails after the actor’s initial charm and his impact it had created, it kind of fades away in the second half of the film.