Adhibar

9/3/2015

Adhibar is an exercise in mediocrity that seems to be intended mainly as a feature-length branding exercise for its producer T Sivakumar. He is credited for the story of the film. He also plays a character who helps the hero and is introduced with a lot of build-up (the feet-first introduction reserved for a mass hero). And to top all this, there is a very blatant in-film advertisement for the producer's business venture. We are told that the story is based on a real-life incident that happened in Sri Lanka, but there is so much randomness in the movie that we start wondering if real life can be this random. Characters behave in the most implausible manner and take instant decisions that no sane person in real life might take. We first see the hero, Shiva (Jeevan, who seems so uninvolve