Finally, this day this year started off really well.. Well because it was the release of much hyped (One of the most hyped film that I have ever seen) ENDHIRAN hit the screen early today morning in India. I know there were couple of shows that I know was screened abroad.
Now let me not create the hype again, Let’s get into a review of ENDHIRAN.
The film starts with what else, as usual, Kalanithi Maran Presents, Super Star Rajini etc and a metallic representation of Endhiran appearing in front of you...
This moment was great because, the title song was rocking... Yes I know you would have guessed correctly.. Puthiya Manidha.. Typically A rendered metallic voice of Rehaman was fantastic.. Also to mention at this point is about the whistles and screams that I heard during the title.
I guess this one of the movies where Rajini is being introduced in a Non Rajini Fashion...
We weren’t able to see two shoes walking, or a cooling glass being tossed or Multiple rajini's appearing together.
It was just the camera that was zooming in to show the super star modeling his robot.....
As the roar silenced, and the song progressed along with a progress in the robot being built, we were surprised to see rajini appearing in front of us like what tom hanks appeared in Cast Away...
Thought I guess the movie demanded rajini to be projected like this, I guess that this was not necessary as we couldn’t see superstar that way.
Then The movie progresses, and the robot is finally built and I am sure that rajini deserves a big round of applause for his performance as a robot... I don’t have words to describe his performance as chitti.. Chitti rocked all through the movie...
Then it’s the actual masala film story that is about a good robot being misused and the inventor trying to set that right.
Too many characters were not at all necessary... The movie till the first half was really really amazing and the screen play was fantastic.. In second half it turned out to be so mechanical and predictable..
The action sequence was not that great in the climax as most of things were not believable at all.
The twist that comes in the last 25 minutes is really great.. and the efforts of the cast and crew is very evident there.
Overall I guess this is a good movie, If u go and watch it with your brains resting somewhere.. Don’t expect much reality in this virtually realistic film....... But I would still say that it would be great to see thalaivar doing a lot of things that he hasn’t done before (I didn’t mean about the promotional activities!!!)
Some Positive Points:
Shankar’s Effort and Sun pictures Money..
Rajini's Style and Performance as Chitti
Aishwarya's Looks (Well I can’t comment much about performance, as you know, the movie demanded her just to react and not act)
Make Up
Animation and Animatronics
Irumbile Song
Some not so positive Points:
Rajini's Makeup as the scientist..
Rehmans Background Score : I don’t even remember a small re recording of the movie, I guess rusell pookutty took over from rehman as we were able to hear only the sound effects.. One of the not so good works of rehman.
Romance between Aishwarya Rai and Rajini - Well No comments, but if I should say something I would say that it remembered me the Cheeni Kum Movie....
Santhanam and Karunas not used much....
Rathnavelu's cinematography wasn’t that catchy as it was in Varanam Ayiram, or Sethu, or Pithamagan,,,,
Climax is too big and people were really screaming again for the movie to end..
So much of graphics and animation makes u feel that u are watching terminator 3..
I guess there is a lot of influence from the English movie BICENTENNIAL MAN and IROBOT AND TERMINATOR 3.....
Dialogues - Could have been better.. This is where I missed Sujatha..... I can never imagine a robot running on 1GB memory..., after all our computers are running on 4 GB's now.
Finally, The movie is to be watched without expectations, Enjoy Super star's Performance as a Andro Humanoid Robot ChittiBabu and applaud Shankar’s efforts...
I guess it’s a different experience that should be experienced once......And you wont forget it....
