Abhiramachandra review: An unimaginable triangular love story

Entertainment By Shashiprasad SM 05/10/2023 Read the article

In the 80s & 90s, triangular love stories were popular commercial hit formulae in Indian cinema. Two heroes fall in love with the heroine, but eventually, one of them bows out.

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In Abhiramachandra, debutant director Nagendra Ganiga goes a step ahead and creates a blunder of a triangular love story that is marred by the “mother of all coincidences”.

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As the title suggests, the film revolves around three main characters — Abhi, Rama, and Chandra.All three share a rented house and struggle to meet their ends.

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Abhi (Ratha Kiran) has a childhood love story and his biggest dream is to meet and express his love for her. Spoiler alert: Chandra and this girl end up meeting online while gaming.

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Ram (Siddu Moolimani) too has a love story which is revealed at a bachelor party where the same girl is his girlfriend.

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Beyond the triangular or the quadrangular love story, the director squanders a lot from going back and forth to the childhood days of the main protagonist, Abhi.

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Even the music scored by KGF (2018 and 2022)-fame composer Ravi Basrur fails to lift the tempo of this flat journey that is filled with silly coincidences.

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Highly recommended to only those who are still curious as to how a four-lane love story can be embedded with such coincidences.

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