The pre-climax sequence involving multiple people chasing the MacGuffin is tiresome. Instead, the film falls back on misogyny and my-wife-beats-me gags that are so rancid, the stink transfers through the screen. But the film is so uncomfortable with vulnerability that it immediately throws everything in the air and breaks the rhythm. My own father, if you don’t have the patience to listen to my stammering, how will my employer?” It’s a poignant moment. There is one scene where the emotion works, when Sabhaapathy tells his angry father, “when you call and I answer the phone, you hurriedly ask me to hand the phone to the sister. Santhanam himself is ineffective in the scenes that expect any emotion from him - be it romance, anger, cluelessness or self-loathing. His antics in most scenes are patently unfunny. The irreverence exists, but it is channeled against reasonable people, making it far less likable than it could be. The cleverness and counter-giving you’d expect from a Santhanam film isn’t anywhere to be seen. The key plot point happens just before the interval, sending you out for popcorn in the hope that it’ll get better. The voiceover of ‘fate’ is both ridiculous and redundant. The first half is structured so haphazardly, scenes connected by imaginary threads and some text on screen. The high-pitched caricaturesque villains played by Sayaji Shinde and Vamsi Krishna are irritating at their best and impossible at their worst. Uma Padmanabhan tries her best, to no avail. MS Bhaskar goes out of his way to fill in the gaps, but they’re too big for even a legend like him to fill. While it’s not hard to empathise with someone struggling with self-esteem issues because of their disability, the film itself does nothing to make you feel anything. Every character, including Santhanam’s, is wafer-thin.
The biggest problem with Sabhaapathy is that it’s written like a drunken performance for the eyes of close friends and family only. What happens to his job, love and money makes up the rest of this dreary film.
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After being rejected at one interview and mocked for his disability at another, he gets drunk, kicks his girlfriend’s mother in the buttocks, vomits on his father and lands on a suitcase full of cash, belonging to powerful and evil politicians. Succumbing to his father’s pressures, Sabhaapathy begins attending interviews. He goes about wasting time until his father retires from work and turns paranoid. 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.
In the film Sabhaapathy, the eponymous hero (Santhanam) is an unemployed youth with a speech disability.
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