Inverse Karma

I watched this dumb movie the very second day of its release in a multiplex; that too with another semester due around the corner. And it was a big mistake which I repented for days. Now whenever I hear people discussing on making it for this movie, I take up the responsibility of helping them drop such ridiculous ideas. From all these depressed lines above I’m sure you can feel how badly I was affected by this so called romantic-thriller (Bah! I won’t even add this in a movie list, its complete crap).

Sarvam starts off well with an intro song for the hero Arya. Except for the song sung by maestro Ilayaraja, nothing else goes well. Usual item girls clad in miniskirts do rounds with the hero. Then we move into the so-called story. Karthik (Arya) and Sandhya (Trisha) accidentally meet in a go-karting track. Karthik is completely swept away by Sandy the moment they meet and as with any Tamil movie they find ways to meet each other again and again (be it the death mourning or Mocha). Whenever the heroine is anywhere nearer our hero gets to hear Ilayaraja’s tunes being played at full volume and he gets to know that his ladylove is somewhere near! (Gosh what an ESP! ). Sandhya is a doctor and Karthik makes it a habit visiting the hospital daily to ensure that she falls in love with him. Now this part is very annoying and you need a lot of patience to get through. Now there is a song where the hero senses that he has super human power because now he’s in love!!!. So he does this Matrix-effect and damages a few trucks and cars with some of Neo’s moves. After luring Sandhya into his love trap, the duo hit the usual duets and are happy to be with each other. And in Tamil cinema that can’t stay that way for long, right? So tragedy strikes, Sandhya dies in an ill-fated accident. Parallel to this romance runs a suspense track where a psychopath Easwar (J. D. Chakravarthy) stalks Indrajith and his son Imman (Rohan). The background for this is that Indrajith accidentally runs over Easwar’s wife and son. Easwar cannot bear the loss and owes to take revenge and make Indrajith pay the price for his mistakes. His idea of revenge is to kill Imman and make Indrajith suffer just like he does.

The story is loosely based on Chaos Theory I guess, or that is what was intended by the director. It is how the lives of all these 5 characters meet and intervene. Now with his ladylove dead the suave happy-go-lucky hero turns into Devdas with beard and stuff. That is when he learns that his lover’s heart is transplanted to Imman and so pays him a visit. That is when he learns about the psycho Easwar and his want for revenge and he takes the boy in his shelter. The climax is poorly portrayed with a wild goose chase and some unbelievable fights. Karthik (Arya) is sliced by a knife clad with snake blood but he miraculously survives without any medication for more than a day. The small talk and silly fights between Imman and Karthik makes you run out of patience. Imman can’t even speak Tamil well! Someone should have dubbed for him.

I guess director Vishnu Vardhan has not yet come out of the Billa effect. The locales are exotic and the set is marvellous. I have never ever dreamt of such clean and sparkling hospitals. But maybe he should have concentrated more on the screenplay than such things. Arya has done a great job transiting from the outcast Yogi (Naan Kadavul) to a chocolate lover boy in this movie. Again, Trisha doesn’t have much scope in this movie. She is just a glam doll, but the chemisty has somewhat worked out. The music score by Yuvan Shankar Raja is good with two songs making it to above average. But the BGM is a little loud at times.

The Bottomline – It’s an edge-of-the-seat thriller; yeah you desperately wait at the edge of the seat for the movie to end so that you can run off!! If you have a lot of patience and are feeling completely bored, maybe you can take a chance and go watch the movie!

The Verdict: Sarvam – Sarvanaasam!

My Rating:  

IMDB: Sarvam (2009)
Language: Tamil
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Arya (Karthik), J.D. Chakravarthi (Eshwar), Indrajith (Naushad), Trisha Krishnan (Sandhya)

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