Endhiran

Writing a movie review after a long time...Last time tried to write a review for 'Dasavatharam' but by the time i finished, it was too late to publish .Curious to see the  next-to-next movies,Dasavatharam and Enthiran , donned by the two megastars of Tamil filmdom Kamal Hasan and Rajinikant, were both sci-fiction categories , the stars both played lead characters as 'scientist' and still futher, the stars played more than one character !


        It was a different experience watching a robot movie which is very rare in Indian cinema .Under the prevanlence that indian sci-fi movies are quite under-par and do not fare great among audience, Endhiran is  a bold attempt by Director Shankar.. Kudos!. It was nice treat to see Superstar Rajinikant morphed into a SuperIntelligent robot blending into the role with ease. Since i had previously  watched  James Cameron's Terminator movies quite a number of  times, i was unable to feel Endhiran was very novel or exciting on the action or technical front .. But what appealed most was concept -  'what if a Robot is begins to starts feeling as humans?  or still ...falls in love?! ' . In this context , the movie is well appreciable.
The love-lorn Chitti's attempts to woo Sana(Aishwarya)  to the extent of almost intimidating Dr.Vaseegaran its creator, were amusing. Especially the 'mosquito dialogues' sequence ...out-of-box idea indeed. And when Sana rejects Chitti's love , we too feel sad for Chitti ..
   The train fight stunts looked ok . But does the super-robot fights for too long ? The bad guys come back unscathed even after a heavy thrashing  :( ,  while we expect a single punch should be enough  to lay each of them flat !
 The villain-turned Chitti's mannerisms are the highlights of the movie .The spine-chilling  evil laugh  'eahaahahhahahahahaha...."  echoes resonating a  shiver in the belly!  and "maaaayye" too enthralls ...  None else could have suited and perfected the evil role except Superstar Rajinikant!
 Till the pre-climax the story was well developed and i was quite comfortable and eagerly looking for what's next.But as the climax unfolded ...i could see my concentration slowly drifting. The cloning of robots was the tipping point .But,aftermath, all the stunts with the clones assembling together using some super magnetic-capability and fighting the City army and all atrocities ...."அட போங்கப்பா!" ( comment borrowed from general Anada Vikatan movie reviews..:) )   I was unable to fit anywhere into my logic. ( Actually mildly similar effect i got when watching climax of Terminator-I , where just the robo skeleton does the rampage )
  What could have been improved upon is robot stunts and action .The robot-skeleton mimicking Rajinikant walking-style was exciting. But, when the robot dances,fights etc , it looked  too fast and un-robotic .The car chase sequence  lacked a punching effect and  graphics  sometimes looked comic. The 'graphic effects' were not perfected and  looks explicit rather than subtle .
Aish impressive in songs dance movements. Otherwise a dull show from the beautiful aunty.
As usual of Shankar movies, song visuals and locations were exhilarating .Also, Rajinikanth looked much charming in songs.A.R.Rahman music looked good for me (contrary to general media news i came to know)
A slight disappointment to Rajini fans perhaps could be watching superstar as scientist Dr.Vaseegaran . He is the real human Rajinikant of the movie , playing a  subdued role and uses his guts rather than muscles . May be his fans now look forward for a superstar movie, playing a real human role,  with all those punch-dialogues , stunts , fiery , romance,comedy  etc
 Overall , I liked 'Endhiran' for its different theme , screenplay , visuals and Superstar Rajinikant. At the same time , too dramatic robot stunts in climax and explicitness of graphic effect could have been improved upon...