Abbara review: Watching it is equal to three times the torture multiplied by a hundred!

Let’s start with a moment of silence to express sympathies to all those who watched almost two-and-a-half hours of pure excruciating pain called Abbara on the big screen.

I’m one among them, who survived the onslaught, to share the experience, explaining how it can be effecti

vely used as torture material.

Wondering what makes it such a bad film? Everything in it — barring the acting skills of Prajwal Devaraj and Ravi Shankar, without whom Abbara does not even qualify in taking up the challenge of watching it in the first place.

Coming to the wondrous tale: Prajwal Devaraj plays the protagonist who is up against Vairamudi, the antagonist portrayed by the versatile Ravi Shankar.

The actual story dates back to 25 years ago when Vairamudi with his gang, including Shobhraj as a dreaded gangster, are on a killing spree over a prime piece of land.

The tale keeps returning to the 25-year-old saga of Vairamudi when he kills his loyal associate, and in the hands of his daughter is the first base of this indigestible entertainment.

The second base is that of a masked man who returns to avenge the killing of his father after 25 years!

He comes in three avatars: a differently-abled individual, a decent person. and then a tapori guy with different accents.

If that’s not enough, he has three lovers who are the daughters of a lawyer, a doctor, and a police commissioner.

Mindless scenes and plot

The story and the scriptwriter of Abbara deserve an Oscar award of a different kind — a Razzie, maybe? — for coming up with such an amazing tale that is nothing short of wild imagination.

To give examples of how mind-numbing the script is, here are two instances.

The first is that of a doctor who is scared of blood or anything that is red, and she wears yellow-tinted shades to perform her duty. They call it blood phobia. Not, it’s not haemophobia or erythrophobia, which is fear of the colour red, but in Abbara it’s specifically termed “blood phobia”.

Another grand scene is of Vairamudi, who is arrested several times in a single day by different jurisdictional police. The wonder is that his lawyer keeps getting him bail orders for his release on the same day.

There are unlimited such amazing mindless scenes, which words fail to do justice to.

Abbara is made exclusively for a special kind of daredevils. Do share your experiences with us if you are up for the Abbara challenge.