Review: Shame on everyone associated with Aggar

Have you ever taken a close look at your dining table? Or your bedside lamp? Or even your kitchen sink? Well, maybe you should. Because I’m convinced that if you look close enough, you’ll discover that even inanimate, lifeless objects like these are capable of showing more emotion and expression than the actors in this week’s new release, Aggar.

Tusshar Kapoor plays a neurotic fellow who accidentally kills his girlfriend when he finds her in the sack with his boss. He’s sent off to prison where a renowned psychiatrist played by Shreyas Talpade helps him recover from his mental condition.

Ridiculously enough, he’s out before you know it, but now he ends up falling for his doctor’s wife Udita Goswami, creating quite the unpleasant situation for the married couple.

More blank than a brand-new blackboard, the three actors in this film could vie for the Worst Performance by an Ensemble Cast if there was ever such an award. But truth be told, that’s hardly the only flaw in this mindless enterprise.

To criticise the film’s script is to assume that there was one to begin with. I can only hope that script was put to good use after the film was made, I do hope someone used it as toilet paper because honestly I can’t think of any better use for it.

Three times while watching Aggar, I got up from my seat thinking the film had ended, but much to my dismay, it plodded on each time till it reached that predictable, pointless climax which director Ananth Mahadevan has borrowed from one of his own previous films, Aksar.

Like that film, Aggar too is a tale of betrayal and conspiracy, but someone needs to remind the director that there’s just so many times you can tell the same kind of story, especially when you have nothing new to offer in terms of treatment or screenplay.

Although it’s only about two hours long, when you leave the cinema after watching Aggar, you feel like you’ve just been released after serving a life sentence in jail.

No prizes for guessing my rating, I’m going with zero out of five for director Ananth Mahadevan’s Aggar, it’s that rare breed of film that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality to it.

It’s a pity films like this get made when hundreds of aspiring writers and filmmakers continue to struggle for one chance to get their ideas heard.

Shame on everyone associated with Aggar for wasting time and money to make a film nobody wants to see.

Rating: 0 / 5 (Such Trash!)