Cast : Aishwarya Rai, Rajnikanth, Danny Denzongpa
Direction : Shankar
Production Kalanidhi Maran
Music Director : A.R Rahman
Preview:
Endhiran movie is all set to release on first of October across different parts of India. This movie features Rajinikanth and Aishwarya in the lead roles and Shankar is the director of this movie.
Rajnikanth is a well versed scientist and robotics engineer who desires to give an intelligent robot to the man kind. In the process, he develops a robot with a silicon heart and which thinks perfectly with its 5 senses like a human. It is like a mimic to Rajnikanth in all possible ways. Moreover, the robot is figured with an incredible sixth sense which is meant to develop the nation and the world. Rajini plays dual roles in this ‘Endhiran’ movie – one is a scientist Vaseegaran and the other is a Robot called Chitti.
But unfortunately, the robot falls in love with Aishwarya Rai, who is already a lover and a “would be” of human Rajnikanth. The bag people on earth try their best to obtain control over the robot Rajnikanth. The rest of the story rotates around Rajnikanth fighting to destroy the bad people with the help of his robot.
Special Features – A human who is not born but is created. He can dance, sing, fight, is water and fire resistant. He can do all that a human can and more. He feeds on electricity. He takes instructions literally. Where a human can lie to save himself this andro humanoid robot Chitti cannot lie.
Review
He has an unwithering charm. He knows to carry himself well onscreen. He is the one man mission who ensures all his movies rake in moolah at the box office. Be it a suave villain, angry young man or a tough cop, he was right there delivering his best, entertaining Tamil masses for over three generations.
Growing young day after day, this one and only ’Super Star’ has successfully scaled the Mount Everest thanks to ‘Enthiran’. The man with a magic behind his name, Rajinikanth, is at it once again with director Shankar, music composer A R Rahman and Sun Pictures giving him company.
All is grand and great with ‘Enthiran’. From frame one till the last, there is enough thrill, spill and chill that one would normally associate with Rajinikanth. Perhaps it is double here. The magic of Rajinikanth and the aura of Shankar have been combined well to weave a magic on screen.
Add the pretty Aishwarya Rai in the scheme of things and top it up with Rahman’s foot-tapping music combined with state-of-the-art technology, the end part is nothing but amazing, outstanding and what not.
Come to describe Rajinikanth in Enthiran, we may run short of adjectives and adverbs. As scientist Vaseegaran and as robot Chitti, the top actor sizzles. He is cool and suave as Vaseegaran. More intellectual and stylish, he charms one and all.
Sporting a stylish beard, Rajinikanth appears in trendy costumes in flashy colours. He has exemplary energy and enormous screen presence quite like any other films of him in the past.
Coming to the songs, Rajinikanth looks more young and trendy. He is as cool as cucumber, quite like a Sachin Tendulkar scoring boundaries at his will from his willow. Come to speak about the robot, it is a Rajnikanth special. As a ‘mobile’ machine, Rajinikanth sizzles on screen. He is more a marvel to look at.
One wink of our eyes, we may miss out his charm and acrobatics on screen. He may look tacky, but he combines the charm of Sylverster Stallone, Arnold Schwarzaneger and the energetic Jackie Chan.
Due credits should be given to the graphics designers and their team, who ensured that all is recreated well on screen. The Robot flexing its muscles, as one man army going gaga in town and even romancing Aishwarya Rai is a delight to watch.
Not far behind is beautiful Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who missed few chances before to act with Rajinikanth. In ‘Enthiran’, she is cool and casual. The beauty with brains lends dignity to her role.
Interestingly unlike other Rajnikanth films, here the heroine is right there enjoying good screen presence. She is at her best in duets, romance and their emotional scenes.
Cliched of same old faces in negative roles? Here a shrewd Shankar throws a surprise in the form of Bollywood star Danny Denzongpa. He is solid and splendid in his role. He does what is expected of him. And lends solidity to the character.
Come to take about the story, it is about Man Vs Machine which we have seen in many a Hollywood movie. Dr Vasseegaran (Rajinikanth), a robotics professor creates an android humanoid robot quite like him. The innocent machine is programmed to be a genius and knows everything and anything under the sky.
Vasseegaran is assisted in this task by his assistants Siva (Santhanam) and Ravi (Karunaas). Coming to knoiw about the robot which is named Chitty, even Vasseegaran’s ladylove and a medico Sana (Aishwarya Rai) gets fascinated by it.
As everything goes well, trouble erupts when Vasseegaran wants to get a patent for his creation. He creates it with a sole aim of dedicating it to Indian army and he feels such a machine would come handy to fight enemies in the border.
However Prof Bora (Danny Dengonzgpa) who is also involved in the process of creating a similar robot wants to play spoilsport. As it happens he rejects to give patent stating that it lacks human emotions. But trouble erupts when Chitty is provided with emotions.
It instantly falls for Sana’s beauty which lands both its creator and itself in deep trouble. A feud erupts between them. Cashing in on the opportunity, Bora comes to take control of the machine, when Vasseegaran dismantles it and throws it away.
Now the real war erupts between Vasseegaran and Chitty. Chitty takes away Sana with him and in the process develops its own army of robots (all alike him and more than 1000 Rajinis on screen). Their only motive is to end Vasseegaran.
The last 40 minutes or so in nothing but scintillating scenes where the army of robots programmed to destruct go on killing spree. It is all up to Vasseegaran and Co to end Chitty’s menace. Eventually all’s well that ends well.
Three cheers to Sun Pictures. The production house has rendered a visual marvel. They have gathered all guts to produce a mega budget affair in Indian cinema, which has come out exceedingly well.
Thanks to Shankar and cinematographer Rathnavelu, every penny that they have spent has been reflected well on screen. The exotic locales across the globe for song sequences, grand laborartory sequences, breath-taking graphic sequences, spine-chilling stunts and chases everything justifies the huge money spent and is a pleasant sight.
Due credit goes to Rathnavelu. The man behind the lens has captured all marvels well. With his wide lens, astute use of colours, wise choice of breath taking locations, Randy has proved why he is one of the best in the business today. He has showed Rajinikanth at his awesome best.
Come to Sabu Cyril, the master art director today has done his part well. And he does a cameo too as an arm broker Sha. The lovely laboratory and the rest in the movie including the robots in thousands have been recreated well. At many places, the sets seem very close to reality.
Walking away with applause is Mozart of Madras A R Rahman. All his songs are catchy, foot-tapping and trendy. The songs like ‘Kadhal Anukkal….’, ‘Robo Dance…’, ‘Boom Boom…’ or ‘Kilimanjaro…’, all evooke thunderous applause. Rahman’s mastery in blending orchestration, harmony and rhythm add pep to all the numbers. The lyrics too compliment the songs and the theme of the movie. The legend in Vairamuthu, his novice son Kargy and Pa Vijay deserve applause.
Give due credit to editor Antony’s sharp scissors. A little more of the movie would have spoiled the show and made it a dragging affair. Thankfully, he has given what the people want. Short, clean and crisp. Walking away with huge applause are the dialogue writers late Sujatha, Kargy and Shankar. A complex sci-fi movie but easy understandable dialogues. They have ensured that all complex scientific details be made easy and understandable to the masses.
Come to master of the ship – Shankar. The man of many achievements, who brought grandeur to Tamil cinema, has lived up to his reputation. His dream project which eventually hit the screens is nothing short of fun, frolic and excitement. Known for handling mass themes with much ease, here he combines such elements with science. A theme never heard before in Indian cinema, Enthiran, despite of very few lagging moments, is nothing but a milestone movie. Shankar has added one more jewel in his crown.
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Endhiran Arima Arima Song
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Endhiran Title
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Kanmani raja, Madurai says
September 30, 2010 at 2:54 pmEndhiran story citing professional ethics :
1. This is a complete masala movie with comedy, song, dance, romance, fight, sentiment.
2. The story’s base is Science Fiction – but it is a science fiction masala.
3. That means, do not expect a complete Sci-Fi genre movie like Terminator. But expect a movie like Avatar. (Indian version of Avatar).
4. It has all the ingredients to make it attractive to children, youngsters, family members, ladies and Rajini’s mass audience.
5. The last 45 – 50 minutes will be a celebration for Rajini fans.
6. The animations are never before seen in Indian cinema and takes Indian cinema to next level in terms of visual effects and animations – but it will not be comparable with hollywood animation flicks. So lower your expectations.
7. The stunt sequences are again, the best in Indian cinema, but definitely not up to Hollywood standards.
8. He was sure that the movie will be liked by Hindi audience too.
9. He was absolutely sure that Rajini’s performance as the villain will win him a National Award.
10. He was also sure that A.R. Rahman will win next year’s National Award for BGM.
11. He said that the climax Symphony based BGM by Rahman is worth even Grammy awards.
12. The one point that the Hindi audience may not like is comedy that is specific to south India. He said, they may cut there scenes in Hindi.
13. The International audience who like song and dance will enjoy the movie. But, the film will not impress international audience in general as this will be a typical Indian masala movie.
14. The movie will definitely break all records for sure.
Vadivelan says
September 30, 2010 at 2:56 pmEndhiran Facts & Unknown Interesting Informations:
Rajinikanth would be seen without his famed moustache in most parts thereby making him look much younger.Rajnikanth plays a dual role in the film.
* Rajnikanth will be seen in 100 different styles during a song in the film!
* Rajnikanth’s pay for endhiran is Rs 45 crores.A share in the profit will also be added in the rajnikanth price for the movie.
* Aishwarya Rai Bachchan agreed for a whooping amount of Rs. 6 crores for the film, becoming the highest paid actress during that time.
* Endhiran has cost around Rs. 200 crores!
* Endhiran will be released in more than 2000 prints, biggest ever for an Indian film.
* The film will be released in over 300 screens outside India, which makes Endhiran the largest worldwide release after Spiderman.
* The audio rights of the movie has been bagged by Think Music for a whooping 7 Crore Indian Rupees or $1.6 million.
* This Rajinikanth-starrer will also be released in China where the super star has a huge fan following as he does in Japan.
According to the official reports, Endhiran has made a record breaking history in US theatres as tickets for all the three versions were sold out within few minutes after booking plans opened.
Endhiran US rights was acquired by FICUS Movies, a U.S. based production house has acquired the rights of both Tamil and Telugu version for a whooping amount of nearly Rs.35 Crores.
According to the trade reports, the producers of Endhiran are likely to take a cakewalk with a wholesome profit prior to the release of film on October 1. Rumors are that until now Sun Pictures has sold out approximately for Rs.202 Crores and will reach an extremum of Rs.240 Crores.
Venus is reported to have acquired the Hindi rights have a big sum of Rs.50 Crores.
Meanwhile, the entire team of Sun Network is vigorously promoting the film by featuring cover stories in all its print network and teasers in satellite channels.
“Endhiran’ will be India’s first sci-fi thriller based on “Robot’ and has been produced at the cost of Rs.130 Crores.
The producers have also set up a special team to be vigilant over curbing down the piracy videos.
With Super Star Rajnikanth and Aishwarya Rai Bachan in lead rolls, get starts rolling on September 8th at America.
The movie production houses which involved into this grandeur venture are Ayngaran International Films Pvt Ltd., and Eros International.
Two fantastic numbers in A. R. Rahman’s music, he is the music director of the film, is about to shot in beautiful locations of America.
Cinematography R. Ratnavelu. Art: Sabu Cyril, Lyrics: Vairamuthu, Pa. Vijay,
Editing: Antony, Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Costume Design: Manish Malhotra.
The Costume Designer of Men in Black, Batman returns, Inspector Gadget Mary E Vogt is designing the scientific outfits.
Stan Winston Studio (USA) who has worked for Predator, Jurassic Park, Pearl Harbor, Iron man, Terminator and I – Robot is doing Animatronics.
Yuen Woo Ping who handled stunt for many Hollywood movies like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Matrix and Kill Bill is currently working for Endhiran (THE ROBOT).
All the three world renowned people working for an Indian movie is for the first time.
Hollywood companies like ILM, Tippet, Café EFX; and Hong Kong companies like Centro and Menfond are going to work in the field of VFX.
Visual Effects and Animatronics co-ordination: Indian Artiste.
Producers: K. Karunamurthi / C. Arunpandian.
Executive Producer: K. Vijayakumar
Kamalakannan says
September 30, 2010 at 2:58 pmEndhiran ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Panner Selvam says
September 30, 2010 at 2:58 pmENDHIRAN = SIVAJI x 100
Rajini fans says
September 30, 2010 at 2:59 pmReview, Rating would decide its fate – Biggest superstar of Indian Cinema Rajnikanth and most beautiful lady of the world Aishwarya Rai starrer Endhiran is all set to hit already fully booked theaters tomorrow i.e. 1st October, 2010 however critics are expected to roll out their personal reviews of the film and that will decide the fate of the costliest film on Indian cinema.
There is not just one but many things which would surely be a treat to the eyes of the people, one of them is the graphics used in the film. Rajinikanth will be seen in more than 100 different styles in a particular song which have been seen till date and the special effects used for the Robot are also special for the movie. Another major thing for this before-release-hit film is the number of prints and screen. Endhiran (Robot) will be release in more than 3000 theaters across the world.
Endhiran has been made with the total budget of around 170 crores where Rajinikanth charges 45 crores apart from the profit sharing and gorgeous Aishwarya Rai charged more than 6 crores.
Rajni plays double role. One is a scientist and another is a Robot. Scientist Rajni creates a Robot with artificial intelligence like that of sixth sense in humans to help human beings and to the development of the country, however its silicon heart falls in love with Aishwarya Rai which writes romantic poems. Knowing about the extra ordinary intelligence of the Robot the villains try to get control of the Robot. Scientist Rajni fights to save the Robot falling into the hand of the enemies and destroys the evil forces using the Robot itself.
Movie Critics are expected to release the reviews of Rajnikanth Endhiran (Robot) today evaluating the special effects, story line up, acting skills, movie plot and the charm of the leading pair in the movie. Though the advance bookings were sold out in few minutes, reviews would play an important role in the long term running of the movie.
Venkatesh Babu says
September 30, 2010 at 5:18 pmWhen we reached the theatre at 7 am to see Rajini Endhiran, there was already surging crowd jostling to grab space to make entry. I remember my childhood days, when we were forcibly woke up by our parents to go to temple at the dawn, we were reluctant, obstinate, unyielding, refused to wake up. But now, we woke up early in the morning, well prepared, bruiced and went in time.
Being a working day in Dubai, thought people wont make it. I think the crazy people, including us, looked as if nothing would compensate Superstar’s movie and ready to keep our job at the altar for a decent sacrifice. The craziness crept into our brain also because we wanted to see this movie before it is released in India on Friday.
We entered the theatre with a big rapturous noise, sat in the saddle amidst chaos and vivid fans’ thunderous ‘silence’. Fans did not heed to the instructions of torchlight-guides who were out to help.
Unlike old days, there was no Government documentary showing or advertisement. We were at the edges of seats and biting nails impatiently, cursing the Operator. We did not even have such a tension and excitement during school result days.
Finally the blockbuster Endhiran began …..
Initial rhetoric of usual Rajini introduction scene is not there, instead he is introduced in the opening scene as Dr.Vaseegaran who finds to enthuse a Robotic object into human, he creates this robot with all that a man can do and cannot do. He finally succeeds after 10 years of research, but he fails in the test by experts as it cannot have any feelings of love, compassion, attachment or obeying attitudes. He re-implants all this and gets interrupted by Danny who is jealous. Rest you have have to see in theatre and i am not going to tell you the story to remove your interest.
Endhiran Movie Highlights:
* Shankar has used technology and special effects to the core.
* Aish looking great, acted well, she looks old in some scenes.
* Rajini is just GREAT GREAT GREAT
* He takes more |Avatars, say more than 1000 and Dasavatharam is a mustard here.
* I think none other than Rajini can mantle this role and none would fit into this role.
* Excellent camera and fighting scenes, superb train stunt by chitti
* Music is good and background music is pressed to take the scenes to the new heights.
* Dont miss to take your children, 4-14, they will enjoy more than you.
* chitti (rajini villain)’s actions are superb,
* A repeat watch may be recommended.
* Songs picturisation just superb
* computer, graphics, tehno – all class
* Razor edge dialogues by sujatha – just great
* Karunas, Santhanam – a waste in the film, they have less role to play.
We MUST SALUTE SHANKAR for this great movie in Tamil. We may have seen many movies in hollywood, but to bring hollywood to kollywood – one shoudl have guts, i think he has achieved this coveted goal.
Watch in sun tv about the interview/review of this first show in Galleria.
Kavitha Kannan, Madurai says
October 1, 2010 at 10:36 amWhat Rajni can’t, Rajni and the Robot can!
The Bad news first: There is no Rajnikanth ‘entry’ in Robot.
The movie cuts to chase directly, opening with Rajni working in a laboratory on a robot and gets on with business.
The Good news: The film more than makes up for it with the mother of all Indian movie climaxes, where Rajni is King Kong, he is the Incredible Hulk, he is Iron Man, he is a Transformer, and he is the Anaconda. He is everything you have seen in special effects laden Hollywood flicks. Heck, in one scene, pinned to giant magnet with his arms stretched, he even does a menacing Hannibal Lecter lunge.
Neatly bookended between these two scenes is Rajnikanth’s biggest ever movie.
When regular hits became the norm, Rajni recalibrated his own benchmark for stardom with Baasha in 1996. In the 14 years since, directors have tried everything to make Rajni bigger than he already was. There was Baasha itself, where he had his greatest backstory unraveled after much intrigue. There was Padaiyappa, which pitted him against the most memorable lady villain in Tamil cinema. And then there was Sivaji, where he comes back from the dead. There was nothing more to be done, or so we thought.
Then comes a movie like Robot, where Rajni is the hero, villain, comedian and a multitude of henchmen. He even appears in drag in a song. Muthalvan/Nayak was said to be the greatest Rajnikanth movie in which he did not act in. Shankar rectifies that in Robot, which is the greatest yet for star and director. The movie is not so much science fiction as much as it is about finding the right excuse to enable Rajni do what he usually does, and make it look plausible.
Dr Vaseegaran (Rajni) creates a humanoid robot, Chiti, (also Rajni) after 10 years of labour, during which he has hardly has any time for his parents or girlfriend Sana (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan). Attempting to plant emotions into the robot backfires as the robot takes a liking for Sana, at which point the good doctor decides to destroy it. In steps the evil scientist Dr Bhora (check) (Danny Denzangpo) who not only resurrects Chitti but also turns him into a killing machine.
The film’s first set piece takes some time coming, but is well worth the wait. From then on it is relentless action, culminating in a climax that will be hard to better for some time to come.
It is so much of a Rajni show that even regular characters that usually get some screen space like parents (we see them in two scenes), friends (Karunas and Santanam are completely overshadowed by Rajni even in the comedy scenes), heroine (every director in the past decade has tried in vain to pair Rajni and Ash, but she still does not have much to do) and villain (a powerful actor like Danny hardly registers his presence) are marginalised.
But in what little screen time they get, what these two stars share is an easy camaraderie more than any great chemistry. But it works in this case.
In retrospect, it is hard to imagine who else could have done this movie, and — forget doing it so well — merely even pulled it off. There are things in this movie that Rajni the villain does to Rajni the hero, which had any other actor done, would have seen theatres going up in flames.
In the end, this movie is as much about special effects as it is about Rajni. Overall, they may not be Avatar good, but they will definitely hold their own when compared with regular Hollywood action movies. After all, while a Matrix costed $200 million, this was made for $30 million. But the effects are by a distance the best we have seen in Indian cinema.
On the flip side, there are enough bloopers for the movie to deserve its own section in our series. It is a tad too long, and the music is not exactly A R Rahman’s best work. But these things seem to have been deliberately overlooked. The intent is clear from the beginning: To make a Rajni showcase like no other. By pitting him versus himself, Shankar has found just the right way to make Rajni just that much more larger than life.
While it is a given that we all like good vs evil, there is a visceral pleasure when both look the same — like Rajni. There are places you root for the deviant robot to triumph over its creator. As he lusts after Sana and bays for his creator’s blood, Rajni channelises some of his best badass acts from the past, chiefly Alex Pandian in Moondru Mudichu.
So, if there is just one Rajni movie you will ever watch, this is it, this is it, this is it.
Source: rediff.com
dharmarajan says
October 1, 2010 at 4:04 pmrajini = rajini
proof : also robot
Jee says
October 4, 2010 at 7:20 pmTHALA alwaya rockzzzzzzzzz
meanwhile my THALAIVAR also rokzzzzzzz
sema padam sir………….
valga THALAivar
watch only on THEATER to get real experience…..
Anthony says
October 4, 2010 at 7:23 pmWhat do you expect from Rajnikanth? The thundering introduction, loads of punch dialogues, lots of comical elements and vividly romance a girl of whatever age she might be. The spoofs may be played on such characteristics of Rajnikanth, but this has been his highlighting attribute of the superstar. Sorry to mention these viewers, none of these features are available in ‘Enthiran’. This is completely a different film, which could have had any actor in lead roles. Shankar boasts of his 10 years of hard work and we are not here to comment on his groundwork phase. But why the hell he compared himself to James Cameron and his 10 years of his preproduction work for his world’s No.1 movie.
Scientist Dr Vaseegaran has spent 10 years of life working on humanoid robot that would help for the societal growth. Then you have a robot named Chitti, which doesn’t just speak the way other Robots does, but instantly cooks up the 7 star hotel dishes, helps Scientist’s fiancée Sana (Aishwarya Rai) for a new patterned copy work during examinations, becomes the savior of needy ones. But what it lacks is the ‘emotions’ that differentiate it from normal human beings. Sooner as Dr Vaseegaran upgrades the Robot with emotional programming, none are aware that the entire town and Dr Vaseegaran awaits gruesome encounters. It is all because of the Robot experiencing Love for the first time that offers a twist in tale.
Nothing to boast about Rajnikanth as the actor strives harder on proving himself successful on such new roles. But this film would have been far better if Vijay or any other had done it. Aishwarya Rai has nothing to perform as she overreacts unnecessarily and often looks quite old as well. Danny Denzongpa is best and the rest of the actors don’t get much importance.
Rajnikanth tries entertaining the audiences with his comical portions and somehow captures the B and C centres. But the complete film belongs to A centre and will be surely liked by the audiences in Northern India and all throughout except Rajnikanth fans.
It is A.R. Rahman’s music that saves the film from sinking deeply down the bottom by second half. The first half has some interesting ingredients while the second hour is dominated by Computer Generated works and A.R. Rahman’s music. Cinematographer Rathinavelu has done a passable job. What happened to this talented cinematographer who gave us the best visuals in Suriya’s Vaaranam Aayiram? Anthony has become much matured on editing as he has cleverly avoided the unwanted showoffs that used to showcase his amateurish style.
‘Enthiran’ will be a sure blockbuster and at the maximum make it bigger as expected by the producers as they will make it by all means.
But disappointingly, it is we have the fans dashed down with our hopes. ‘Enthiran’ is an average fare that deserves a watch once.
Selva says
October 4, 2010 at 7:24 pmRajini Fans! The action scenes which the Robo does are done by Alex Martin and not Rajini and the credit goes to him.
Meenakshi says
October 4, 2010 at 7:25 pmThis movie is not good as expected. Rahman back ground music can done better.
Raghu says
October 4, 2010 at 7:26 pmThe Spielberg, James Cameroon and George Lucas of Indian Cinema – Shankar harked back after two years with the biggest film in the history of India.
The film is full of Rajni- above, below, beside, against in all direction through and through the movie. Endhiran is incomparable with any other Indian films till date. The budget of this most expensive Asian film varies from 150 crores to 200 as per media reports.
This Science fiction film starts on a low naught and picks up the pace. The high expectation for this film has been materialized. Like Chitty, the robot created by protagonist Vaseegaran in the film, Rajni’s image could only be handled by Shankar. The character Chitty is first of its kind in Asian films. What will Kamalahaasan, Sharukh Khan and Aamir Khan thinking now, as they have been offered the role in the beginning?
Aishwarya is most ravishing and highly sensuous in every scene. The beauty icon has role through out the movie. Notably the film has less number of characters. The fights, chases, war, robotics, graphics are all excellent.
The demise of efficient writer Sujatha may have affected Shankar. Robot lacks its inherent pace at the beginning of second half. Whilst being chartbusters the songs are not at par with the film. The trailer aired robs many surprises given by the film. Vivek who was seen in many recent Shankar film is out. Santhanam and Karunas take his place with their unbearable comic numbers. Like these characters Kalabhavan Mani and Cochin Haneef have only meager roles.
Inspirations
The most widely discussed topic in robotics is that of machines getting thinking power. As they surpass human in every other count they may even lead to extinction of human race from earth. Many novels and films have been fathered from this idea. Now, Shankar takes up this subject and as his fans know, the film is bigger than anything.
Like other Shankar films this one too has many inspirations, so what? If James Cameron can get inspired by video games and our mythology then why can’t director Shankar get inspired by futuristic western films?
After long time, a film has come which truly brings back the glory of theatres, it had decades ago. Star director Shankar can’t be equalled by any technicians in India who make movies. For Indians, Endhiran is a technical milestone. A technical achievement with thoughts, emotions and feelings.
Udaiyar says
October 4, 2010 at 7:27 pmI don’t have any words to xpress my views abt the movie..-). Xtraordinary movie.congrats shankar!!!
Vadivalagan says
October 4, 2010 at 7:33 pmWe didn’t want to goto Endhiran movie however we all decided to go and have fun.
BIG MISTAKE!!! The movie was very bad…Rajni couldn’t act or dance…he is talking only to mosquitos.
Aiswarya is utter waste in this movie…she was so nice in Raavan or Jodha Akbar
ARR music is very noisy…poor re-recording.
I expected a lot from Director Shankar but really disappointed. This is worse than Boys movie.
Its utter waste to have spent 160 crores for such a movie which did not have any story at all.
Viewers – Save the big bucks and wait for the prices to come down if you’re really a hard fan else wait for SunTV to release the movie in their TV after a year or so.
raja says
October 9, 2010 at 11:25 pmwe are making these film stars rich by watching this type of childish movies
Manivannan says
October 11, 2010 at 2:51 pmBiggest ticket of this year arrives with a bigger style. The entire town was spangled with exceeding expectations. All because of the top-notching brands like ‘Superstar Rajnikanth, Shankar, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, A.R. Rahman and Sun Pictures’ coming together.
To start off with, the film may be corresponded with certain Hollywood films ‘Terminator’, ‘Hulk’, ‘Transformers’ and ‘Matrix’. Incomparably, the film pioneers with outstanding panoramas and indeed keeps us intact for the next 2hours 45minutes. Fill your papers with you wish lists of ‘Enthiran’ and you are sure to get fulfilled. Thanks to Shankar for adding the best spectacular traits. Maybe, Rajnikanth’s introduction as a scientist may not invigorate your sprits, but make sure you’ll acclaim with the best applauses as ‘Robot’ walks in.
It has been a very long time; we witnessed Superstar Rajnikanth in the negative shades. Wow! He’s astounding. Watch out for his performance during last 30mins of the film, your faces sparkle with excitements and your hands painful of clapping.
Perhaps, the ‘Cigar’ factor was heavily missing or else it would have been the most powerful heroism.
On the whole, ‘Enthiran’ is a well-tailored treat for the fans of Superstar Rajnikanth and director Shankar.
Dr. Vaseekaran has spent 10 years of his life accomplishing with his dreams of inventing a humanoid robot. With ‘Puthiya Manitha’ signature theme on the backdrops, we tend to witness the new man ‘Chitti Robot’ arriving into this World (again played by Robot). Chitti tends to be the jack of all trades and arts and even helps the scientist’s girlfriend Sana (Aishwarya Rai) to pass in her exams through newfangled copycat technology. Well, it’s almost like a savior, but lacks emotions, which indeed lets it disdained by the senior scientists to be used for world advancement. But again, Dr. Vaseekaran with his striving efforts succeeds implanting the ‘Emotional quotients’. Now Chitti emotes well with cognizance that includes LOVE as well. It is a well conceptualized story by Shankar of what happens when a Robot inherits the traits of humans.
Director Shankar has tried blending his usual attributes of commercial ingredients to a gripping story. Of course, the film would have been at Hollywood standards, if he had attempted the film without songs. To be precise, none of the songs except ‘Puthiya Manitha’ travels with the storyline while rest of the songs is unwanted. Say for instance, ‘Kadhal Anukkal’ and ‘Kilimanjaro’ are purposely inserted. But a Shankar film without songs is out of question. Naturally, the style of picturing of both these songs in the backdrops of exotic locales is well shot by Rathinavelu. Specifically, the desert-water beds in ‘Kadhal Anukkal’ are transfixing. Editing by Anthony is neat and best. Special thanks for avoiding his usual plug-ins. A.R. Rahman’s musical score is the biggest asset of the film. The background score during last 30 minutes (Arima Arima and Puthiya Manitha) is astoundingly marvelous. ‘Irumbile Oru Idhayam’ is really disappointing as Rajnikanth’s steps are so simple while Aishwarya Rai rocks on the floors. But keep yourself prepared for the fantabulous dance steps of Rajnikanth in ‘Chitti Dance Showcase’.
Getting on with Robot’s characterization, it is shown as a unique entity of sensing the human through its scanning traits even from a longer distance. But how is that it fails to zero down on Dr. Vaseekaran in its lab. By nature, the laughing style of the lines – ‘Who is the black Sheep?’ overshadows such minutest flaws.
The unending bizarre created by ‘Robot’ is mind-blowing and keeps you excited about the unpredictable proceedings. The climax is literally touching as ‘Robot’ incriminates human nature and proves it to be innocuous. Danny Denzongpa does justice to his role and Shankar has well crafted his characterization as a grey-shaded personality. Santhanam and Karunaas have nothing to do with the film and it looks like their portions of comedy tracks were edited out. But Rajnikanth himself tickles our funny bones with the hilarious moments.
On the whole, ‘Enthiran’ is a top-class entertainer, which is sure to offer you the best treat. Watch this film and just ignore if you even find some narrowest flaws and illogical ingredients.
What works: Superstar Rajnikanth, A.R. Rahman and all the biggest brands.
What doesn’t work: Long narration, choreography for few songs.
Verdict: Don’t miss it
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Anitha says
October 25, 2010 at 8:27 pmLots of expectations for this movie (created by the private channel). But the movie is not upto the mark. It would be better if they could skipped some of the silly scenes, example is Mosquito scene. Our tamil cinema is still carrying the age old formulas like goons teasing the girl, delivery scenes..
No logic in the film, a scientist is creating a SuperIntelligent Robot with the help of 2 wasteless assistants!!!!
Overall the movie is good one time watcher if we didn’t go with much expectations.