Monday, October 4, 2010

எந்திரன் / Endhiran The Robot - Movie Review

Hero & Heroine: Rajnikanth & Aishwarya Bachan
Villain : Danny Denzongpa & ROBOT
Music : A.R.Rahman
Comedy : Santhanam with Karunaas
Director : Shankar
Producer :  Sun Pictures - Kalanithi Maran
Release Date :  1st Oct 2010
Genre : Sci-fi, Love, Animation & Action.           
REVIEW BY : AUTHOR




GLIMPSE - Almost 2 years of hard work, Whopping budget which was not officially announced but estimated to be around 180 Crores +, The Superstar phenomenon, Oscar Winner's Music, Direction by Spielberg of south india, World beauty Aishwarya bachan,  Sun Pictures Production & Over 3000 Theatres Worldwide release. These huge Factors has raised the expectation for Endhiran, that had won the Altitude of everest so easilly. I watched this movie in No:1 theatre of Madurai City - Renovated Thanga Reegal (But i dont think so - due to echo of voices and 4 times powercut). Before review I admit that, "I'm a die-hard rajni fan from age 5". But, this review is not gonna be on one side or partial towards rajnikanth. Its a clear-cut view from a normal movie goer's experience.


FIRST HALF -  Dr.Vaseegaran (Rajnikanth) is a scientist who strives hard to make an android (Humanoid) Robot, for a good purpose of serving the society. For this a modern ultra-tech lab has been setup in chennai. After 10 years of sleepless or less-slept nights, he finally succeeds in giving life to his dream project. The humanoid is named "Chitti". It itself implies its potential as : Speed 1 tera hertz (Terahertz radiation can pass through clothingpapercardboardwoodmasonryplastic and ceramics in Micro Seconds. It can also penetrate fog and clouds, but cannot penetrate metal or water), Memory 1 Zetta Byte (A zettabyte is equal to 1 billion terabytes or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes = 10007, or 1021). Enna Thalai girrunu suthuthaaa.......? But thats the real fact about chitti_The Robot. Aishwarya as Sanaa play's girl friend of rajni, whom fits the role well, but.... is it 'fair' to show rajni 'fairless', as an aged scientist with grown beards & shrunken eyes? while he is in love with young aish. not at all shankar sir.., u could have better exposed super star as he is capable of it. Santhanam & karunaas play comedy roles as assistant's of rajnikanth.. (for such a serious invention, their roles are not at all necessary and they havn't done their best!). Chitti itself does some funny acts and conversation which, provokes laugh now and then (Esp. Conversation with traffic police and when footballing the rowdies). Dr.Vasi displays his project to the world with a world class presentation, his professor (Danny denzongpaa) becomes rival against rajni's invention. The reason behind it is ego and his own failures with creation of such robo's. So, danny as bohra the professor of rajni, falsify this invention thro a mind play with chitti during final stage of evaluation before approval. So, the judges dis-qualify the invention & verdict's "Chitti is very Dangerous to the human society!". Meanwhile Dr.Vasi doesn't lose hope and upgrades chitti to make understand the human emotions that includes Love, Sentiment, Happiness, Anger... Etc. Chitti also picks it up well. Finally this creates a problem to Dr.Vasi, as Chitti happens to fall in love with aish for her extreme care n beauty. This happens, coz Dr.Vasi sends chitti to sana's house for 2 days as a company for her exam preparation. In these 2 days, it does all super-hero miracles that includes a mind-boggling train fight. Aish kisses chitti for its efficiency. Here starts all the troubles. Chitti starts arguing with its creator and rejects his commands for it had fallen in love with sanaa. At one stage it proposes to sanaa. But, she rejects its love & tries explaining the reasons to chitti.  Due to these acts of chitty, Dr.Vasi gets frustrated to the peak and demolishes his 'dream project' chitti into pieces and throws out. (How could he forget to destroy or remove the important chip..? Also, why not he modify the feelings of love by doing simple alterations in binary code..? These are logical questions rosed in my mind...!). The out-thrown chitti was rediscovered by villain in the urban garbage disposing area of chennai. The robo itself joins all the broken parts as main brain chip was still active and asks for the help of danny the evil professor. Here buzzes the interval ring!


     



SECOND HALF The Villain, modifies chitti and gives it a new avatar with stylish look. But, with an installation of a red chip filled with full of evil thinking. Evil-Robot, announces itself as upgraded version 2.0. & with trademark villainous-laugh of rajnikanth, "Enna yaralayume alika mudiyaathu!" Here starts the speedy screenplay. As Dr.Vaseegaran is about to wedlock with sanaa, evil rajni goes straight to the Marriage hall and  kidnap's her forcefully. It razes (knock to the ground) all the barriers and kills a lot of policemen, army persons, destroying big vehicles with style... The best part is, "It Carries a bunch of Powerful n heavy Machine gun's ready to bombard & says cooly...  "HAPPY DIWALI FOLKS!" & fires them into ashes. This is the moment, where Audience's Whistle n applause fills the hall, that puts theatre DTS as if in silent mode! The evil robot has got all the abilities to make similar robots like him and it multiples like a virus. One makes the other and other makes some other...... but all r identical! At one point evil-robo kills danny the professor brutally, as he opposes its acts. Then, It occupies danny's hi-tech research building for creating 1000's of robo's that look alike itself. Dr.Vasi, makes a suspense plan to kill Evil-robo and  rescue sanaa from its custody. The evil robo puts the resemblance robos for guarding the building. Each is capable of killing 100's of soldiers by taking different shapes thro chain-gang, without being destructed as easily by any means. Anyhow Dr.Vasi manages to get into the core of building, by shaping himself like that evil-robo. He rescues aish by proving he is Dr.vasi, thro a sharp cut in hand with a knife. The evil robot identifies that there is a black sheep inside the building, thro blood drops of Dr.Vasi. It lines up all the robot's, and thereafter identification parade by Evil-Rajni is a class of his acting talents. Those 5 minute's action to reveal the black sheep is more than enough to answer, why he is still an "EPITOME OF STYLE!" Rajni rocks our mind with his anti-mannerisms. Remember he complete's 62 on Dec 12th 2010.




As Anti-Rajni identifies the 'black sheep' (i.e Dr.Vasi) with style & intelligence, the movie paces up like a roller coaster with exhilarating join-ups of robot in different shapes and structure. The Last 30 minutes mesmerized the audience as they just sat, opening their Mouth & Eyes wide out of surprise chases and Robo's formation out of deformation! Heavy Graphics and Hard work towards the end of the movie justified the cause of Enormous budget! To know the rest, Its time to watch the movie in a sophisticated theatre folks...! Wish u will sure have an unseen experience rather just enjoyment! 






MERITS : RAJNI as usual steels the show as Chitti & Anti-Robot. Aishwarya bachan is like a barbie doll with fantabulous dance and acting. (Now u know the reason, why rajni praised her a lot in all functions!) Animation & Graphics will challenge hollywood. First indian movie of its genre! Rajni as Dr.vasi acted normally without punches and grand introduction! (His die-hard fans may dis-like this). While, First half is sci-fi comedy, Second half is an enthralling roller coaster ride!
  


DE-MERITS : Shankar's usual touch was missing, A.R.R was not that much appealing in BG score. Makeup and costumes in song sequences are not that much great as of anniyan or sivaji. Over-hype and most important scenes revealed in trailer itself. Mosquito scene & kalabavan mani Scene not essential. Some characters are utter waste (esp Rajni's parents, Karunas & K.mani). 






MY PUNCH : Everyone can dream, But there is a certain way of execution! "Its not an usual Shankar or Rajni movie, yet u have tonnes of other reasons to watch it twice or even thrice!" 
 "KARUVIL PIRANDHA ELAAM MARIKUM, 
ARIVIL PIRANDHATHU MARIPATHE ILLAI!"





MY RATING


90% - FAMILY AUDIENCE AND KIDS 


80 % - NON-FANS OF RAJNIKANTH 


70 % - DIE-HARD RAJNI FANS 

DISCLAIMER: Rating & Review is based on my view over the film & it shouldn't be considered as mass opinion - SADIQUE (Blog Owner)


RATINGS & THEIR CATEGORY :


BELOW 50 %    = WASTE

50% - 60%       = OK

60% - 70%       = GOOD

70% - 80%       = EXCELLENT


80% - 90%       = MUST WATCH

90% - 100%     = WATCH BEFORE YOU DIE! 
 
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5 comments:

  1. Hope its a time pass movie worth 4r te money v pay :)

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  2. its not juz time pass movie, we can learn a lot of technical things wen closely observed. Eg. Tera hz and zeta byte. Humanoid, isaac asimov who first discoverd A.I., butterflies taste buds r in their legs, robots can with stand more than 1000 deg celcius etc etc etc

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  3. oh i tink u have learned a lot frm tis movie :) i can c

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  4. S. Everyone should learn is my wish! :)

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