In this video, one of the principal editors of the film in the initial stages, Shameer Muhammed is seen speaking about how the first copy of Game Changer had a runtime of 7 hours 30 minutes.
The former editor of the film revealed that the copy had a shocking runtime of seven hours 30 minutes, which was later cut down by three hours under his watch. It was later remembered further to 2 hours, 45 minutes by Shankar.
The very fact that the first copy had over seven hours of footage shows the kind of wastage and ineffective is the went into the production of this film.
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The time and efforts of Charan were absolutely wasted with unplanned and unnecessary shoots. And more concern only for the producer, Dil Raju, a large portion of this footage went in vain and thus, his money went down the drain.
The fact that more than half of the film's footage went in vain due to editing shows the kind of absolute carnage Shankar created with his lackluster approach. The efforts of Charan and financial resources of Raju were both badly exploited.
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This must surely have been one of the worst experience in the careers for both Charan and Dil Raju.