Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 2009


1977 (film)

Buy 1977 (film) now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




'1977' is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by G.N.Dinesh Kumar. It stars R. Sarathkumar, Namitha and Farzana.[http://www.tamilnaduentertainment.com/tamil.asp?hotclick=1977.txt Tamilnadu Entertainment :: Movie Trading Portal]

The film was later dubbed into Hindi as '1977: The History Re-Written' in 2010.

Plot



The film begins at a fishing hamlet in Tamil Nadu where an elderly Rajashekar is worshipped as "God Father" by many. His amiable ways of living won him many friends. His son Vetrivel is an acclaimed scientist. He is received with gusto by the whole village after he returns winning awards from Central government. Unfortunately, a glance at a vernacular on a news report on Malaysia shocks Rajashekar, who immediately develops cardiac arrest and dies. Vetrivel learns of the incident and decides to unravel the mystery behind the death. He sets off to Malaysia. Vetrivel gets acquainted with a local reporter Inba, who falls for him. With her help, he finds out a disturbing truth about his father's life. Rajashekar is former police officer in Malaysia who falls to the conspiracy of a baddie and is arrested for no fault of his. Rajashekar eventually pays the price for being honest by losing his family and settles down in Tamil Nadu with his young son.

In his quest to prove that his father is innocent, Vetrivel re-opens the case and gets the help of Chandhini a lawyer who is the daughter of erstwhile public prosecutor, Gaandivan, who argued against Rajashekar 30 years ago. He also finds his mother in the process. The rest of the movie is all but how Vetrivel rewrites history, proves his father's innocence, and avenges the bad elements.

Cast



*Sarath Kumar as Rajashekar "Rasaiyya" and Vetrivel

*Farzana as Inba

*Namitha as Chandini

*Vivek as Paraman

*Jayasudha as Vetrivel's mother

*Radha Ravi as Dr Sharma

*Vijayakumar as DGP Padmanabhan

*Ilavarasu

*Shankar Siva as Criminal Lawyer

Reception



The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics. 'Sify' stated "How long will Sarath Kumar go on doing double role as father and son? Sorry to say, the film is as avoidable as [a] migraine". 'Behindwoods' rated 1 out of 5 and stated lackluster show. 'Rediff' rated one-and-a-half out of five stars and stated that "'1977' might have worked had it been released in 1977 and not in 2009!". 'The New Indian Express' wrote that "One star, for Sarath Kumar, the stunts and for the sequences in Malaysia".

Box office



The film though had a fantastic exit review opened poor response at the box office owing to the Hero's political debacle at the time of release and struggled to recover its high production budget in Tamil Nadu but racked big money in its Telugu dubbed version which compensated the loss in Tamil Nadu.

Soundtrack



The music was composed by Vidyasagar. Lyrics were written by Pa. Vijay, Na. Muthukumar and Jayantha.

Tracklist

1. "Arabi Kadal" - Sunitha Sarathy - Pa. Vijay

2. "Hawai Theevil" - KK, Sowmya Raoh - Pa. Vijay

3. "Ore Oru" - Krithika, Vijay Yesudas - Pa. Vijay

4. "Vangha Kadal" - Shankar Mahadevan - Na. Muthukumar

5. "Yenathu Uyire" - Madhu Balakrishnan, Sadhana Sargam - Jayantha

References




Buy 1977 (film) now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 2009



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1098295746.