1977: Multiple roles in Continuous time

1977: Multiple roles in Continuous time

1977 reminds me of 1984 only because 1977 in itself a dystopian fiction about how bad movies can get if in the hands of wrong people. 1977 is a Sarath Kumar starring action sequence thriller - a story that goes 2 time zones away to explain a seemingly complicated conundrum packed with unintended humor, intolerable romance, inaccurate science and pure irrationality. This is Sarath's reply to Kamal's Dasavathaaram. Kamal played just ten roles in his movie but Sarath has played his roles in continuous time in this movie and not discrete time. So you can say he played 'n' roles as n-> infinity. In simpler terms, theoretically he has infinite roles in the movie. Every day you can see a Sarath thoroughly inconsistent with his previous actions and this I think is a breakthrough of unprecedented magnitude. After all, for the first time in World Cinema an actor has played infinitely many roles ranging from scientist to sarpanch head to what-not.. !

It is unfair though (given the number of male leads) that the movie has just two lead female protagonists who both compete in trying to seduce our celibate Sarath. Both females have tried their best to show off how going to VLCC wont work with their yucky flabby ponches. God knows why even this is considered glamor. Namitha should seriously be asked to starve for 2 months. She ll be okay hopefully then. How long is our Sarath going to do it with Namitha in front of the camera !. Isnt he bored.. ? The other female is meant for a head-on-collision with sarath and rolling 8 steps over a period of 8 hrs in extremely slow slow-motion technology.

The intro scene has the classic shoe-to-oiled hair bit slice camera angle opening. However when you expect a fight, the hero here(one of the infinitely many saraths) adopts a Ahmisa strategy and threatens to immolate himself if the anti social elements do not stop troubling the village. It is at that point that you start laughing and you ll go on laughing till the interval -the climax is so predictable that you would have actually laughed over it during the interval itself.

Riddled with planned punches, irrelevant multiple actions, inconsistent logic and unnecessary song sequences - the movie is at its best when you sit with a gang of 4+ friends and laugh your ass off. It is a must watch. Don miss it.

1977:aayrathi tholayarathi ezhuvathi ezhu verum seru.