SABHAAPATHY Tamil Movie Review
CAST:
N.Santhanam , Preeti Verma ,M.S.Baskar ,Sayaji Shinde ,Vamsi ,Pugal ,Uma ,Rama ,Vaishnavi ,Madurai Muthu etc.
CREW:
Production – RK Entertainment ,Producer – C.Ramesh Kumar,Director – R. Srinivasa Rao,DOP – Baskar Aru mug am Editor – Leo John Paul,Music director – Sam C.S,Art director – A.R.Mohan,Lyrics – Vivek, Sam C.S,Choreog ra phy – Sathish Krishna,Stunt – Hair Dinesh,Sound Mix – Raja krishnan,Costume Designer – Jennifer Raj,Produ ct ion Executive – B.N. Swaminathan, S.M. Raj Kumar,DI – Igene,CG – Monish supervisor RPM VFX studio,SFX – C. Sethu Stills – Raj,Creative promotion – Beat Route,Publicity Design – Reddot Pavan,Executive Producer – P.Kish ore Kumar, S.Bharath,PRO – Nikil Murukan,
Story-;
Sabhaapathy (Santhanam) has stammering issues and that stands as a barrier for him while appearing for job int erviews. He is forced by his father Ganapathy (MS Bhaskar) to apply for job interviews as he has retired and it is time for his son to run the family. When Sabhaapathy is vexed by his situation, fate decides to play a game with him. A suitcase full of money reaches him and he decides to protect the suitcase at his house. However, fate tw ists the game by making him lose the case. How did the suitcase full of money disappear from his house and did Sabhaapathy manage to get a job at the end, forms the rest of the Story.
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Movie Review-;
R Srinivasa Rao’s Sabapathy reminded me of Mr. Denton on Doomsday, an episode from Rod Serling’s cult classic TV series, The Twilight Zone. In the latter, fate, personified as a strange salesman, saves a former gunslinger’s life from chronic alcoholism and a fatally dangerous duel by giving him a gun and a tiny bottle of magical potion. Fa te, which is usually blamed by humans for their misfortunes, lends a helping hand to a fallen man. What would yo u do if you find a suitcase containing Rs. 20 crores in cash, while you’re drunk out of your wits, hated by your pa rents and left to piss on a wall? Sabhaapathy would take it home and try to return it to its rightful owner the next morning. To my mind, this is what most people would do — especially given how difficult it can be for a pauper to spend Rs. 20 crores without attracting unwelcome attention. But, somehow, in writer-director R Srinivasa Rao’s mind, this is the world’s greatest virtue. So much so that this is the only likeable thing about the protagonist of hi s film.In Sabapathy, too, fate is personified. Fate in this film is a VFX creation — a guy with a longish beard and a baritone voice who sits in a dimly lit room and does strange things like reversing the collapse of a card castle.
He, like the salesman in The Twilight Zone episode, intervenes in the life of the struggling and stammering Saba pathy (Santhanam) to make it better. In the film Sabhaapathy, the eponymous hero (Santhanam) is an unemploy ed youth with a speech disability. He is in love with his childhood friend, Savithri (Preeti Verma) who apparently returns his affections, though I couldn’t tell based on her stolid performance in the film. He goes about wasting time until his father retires from work and turns paranoid. Succumbing to his father’s pressures, Sabhaapathy be gins attending interviews. After being rejected at one interview and mocked for his disability at another, he ge ts drunk, kicks his girlfriend’s mother in the buttocks, vomits on his father and lands on a suitcase full of cash, bel onging to powerful and evil politicians. What happens to his job, love and money makes up the rest of this dreary film.However, unlike The Twilight Zone episode, which readily evokes philosophical contemplation (as most The Twilight Zone episodes do), Sabapathy, due to its ineffectual screenplay, leaves you with that feeling of showeri ng in lukewarm water on a wet, cold morning.
If only the water had been warmer. Because the plot of Sabapathy, although not entirely novel, is solid: a naive ni ce guy, struggling in life, gets a suitcase full of cash belonging to a corrupt politician. This is the point where Fate decides to intervene in his life. But the build-up to this point and its aftermath are tiresome. The biggest problem with Sabhaapathy is that it’s written like a drunken performance for the eyes of close friends and family only. Ev ery character, including Santhanam’s, is wafer-thin. While it’s not hard to empathise with someone struggling wi th self-esteem issues because of their disability, the film itself does nothing to make you feel anything. MS Bhask ar goes out of his way to fill in the gaps, but they’re too big for even a legend like him to fill. Uma Padmanabhan tr ies her best, to no avail. The high-pitched caricaturesque villains played by Sayaji Shinde and Vamsi Krishna are irritating at their best and impossible at their worst.The first half is structured so haphazardly, scenes connected by imaginary threads and some text on screen.
The voiceover of ‘fate’ is both ridiculous and redundant. The key plot point happens just before the interval, sen ding you out for popcorn in the hope that it’ll get better. But it doesn’t. The writing is to be blamed. The build up to the intermission, where Sabapathy finds the suitcase, is tiresome. Some of the scenes between Santhanam an d MS Bhaskar work to an extent due to their performances. And, Cooku With Comali-fame Pugazh, who plays Sa nthanam’s ‘quarter’-loving friend of Santhanam on his big-screen debut, delivers a few one-liners. But barring a few such moments, no lines stick. The cleverness and counter-giving you’d expect from a Santhanam film isn’t an ywhere to be seen. The irreverence exists, but it is channeled against reasonable people, making it far less likabl e than it could be. His antics in most scenes are patently unfunny. Santhanam himself is ineffective in the scenes that expect any emotion from him — be it romance, anger, cluelessness or self-loathing. The tone of the movie flu ctuates wildly in the second half. For a while, it wants to be a madhouse caper with many people chasing after th e same object, resulting in comical accidents.
But a few moments later, it gets all motivational. There is one scene where the emotion works, when Sabhaap at hy tells his angry father, “when you call and I answer the phone, you hurriedly ask me to hand the phone to the si ster. My own father, if you don’t have the patience to listen to my stammering, how will my employer?” It’s a poig n ant moment. But the film is so uncomfortable with vulnerability that it immediately throws everything in the ai r and breaks the rhythm.Instead, the film falls back on misogyny and my-wife-beats-me gags that are so rancid, the stink transfers through the screen. The pre-climax sequence involving multiple people chasing the MacG ffi n is tiresome. The fight and the flying headbutt is awkward. The climax and its motivational message are disrespe ctful. Overall, Sabhaapathy is a test of patience, even if you generally enjoy Santhanam’s brand of humour.But it was refreshing to see Santhanam not coming up with a one-liner or a retort every two minutes he is on screen. What Sivakarthikeyan did in Doctor, Santhanam does in Sabapathy. Playing an awkward, small-town guy with a stammer, Santhanam, for the most part, does not remind you of Santhanam. Also refreshing to see was the film not veering away from the plot, apart from an unnecessary fight sequence and songs. All this results in a Sabapa thy that isn’t long…but had the writing been stronger, it could have been more than just watchable.
This IS MY Personal Review So Please Go And Watch The Movie In Theaters Only
Written By- T.H.PRASAD -B4U-Ratting-4 /5
