| Cast: |
Sarath Kumar,
Namitha, Farzana, Jayasudha, Vijayakumar, Radharavi and others |
Director: |
C. Dinesh Kumar |
Sarath
Kumar’s latest
offering 1977
opens with the
sequence of the
villain
troubling the
fishermen and
Sarath appearing
in an old-man
getup restoring
to Gandhigiri to
make the villain
realize his
fault. In the
very next
sequence, a
younger Sarath
enters the
frames as a
scientist.
Given the
Gandhigiri
effect in the
beginning, you
might think that
both Saraths
would team up to
make wonders in
the lives of the
people. But you
get to see older
Sarath dying in
the very next
sequence and the
scientist son is
left with a
minor clue that
takes him to
Malaysia. The
sequences taking
place in
Malaysia form
the rest of the
story as Sarath
goes about in
investigating
what could have
happened to his
father, who left
Malaysia in the
year 1977. .
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In Sarath’s mission, he has a couple of glamour dolls Namitha and
newcomer Farzana (looks like Namitha’s younger version) for keeping him
company. The film’s title is the year in which the late MGR ascended the
throne in Tamil Nadu for the first time. The film suffers from the
syndrome of the older era that belonged to the likes of MGR.
Debutant director Dinesh Kumar, who shows some promise in the opening
sequences, fizzles out and becomes a pretty ordinary director in the
remaining sequences. Almost all the sequences can be pre-conceived by
the viewers and the director has ensured that the ‘grey matter’ inside
the viewers’ brain remains least disturbed by his film.
Sarath,
as usual, excels in his double-role. He has an amazing physique and the
way he has been maintaining it over the past so many years is simply
superb. The fighting sequences breathe fire. Acting-wise, Sarath is his
usual self with limited emotions and a lot of action.
The
skin-show indulged in by Namitha and newcomer Farzana is something that
might see the film through. Wonder whether Namitha will ever try her
hand at something called ‘acting’ at all. Veteran actress Jayasudha, as
the older Sarath’s pair, has put in a good performance indeed.
It’s no harm in taking up a masala film as your first product, Dinesh.
But ensuring that everything is mixed up in the right proportions helps
the film at the box-office. Dinesh, who has doubled up as the
distributor too, fails miserably in this count.
1977 :
Fails to create any history