Kollywood Movie Reviews #ept

Enthiran [Robot] (2010)

Director: S. Shankar

Writers:
S. Shankar
Sujatha Rangarajan
Madhan Karky (dialogue)

Producer: Kalanithi Maran

Starring:
Rajinikanth as Chitti/ Vaseegeeran Aishwariya Rai Bachchan as Sana

Song of the Review

~Enthiran enthiran en en enthiran...~

General Comments

I liked this movie overall. It was funny. I don't watch science fiction movies usually but this one was an exception. The special effects were superb. I am so happy that there will be a second Enthiran coming out. I am so excited. I hope it is as good as this one. No, wait. I want it to be better than this one. Based on experience, the sequels are not so good compared to the first story. I hope this will change my perspective on sequels.

Scene of the Review

Vaseegeeran asks his assistants to take care of Chitti while he has some sort of business to take care of. The assistants try to teach Chitti bad things. Chitti knows better. He even rats out the two assistants when Vaseegeeran comes back to the lab. After Vaseegeeran hears of his assistants' deeds, he threatens to fire the two.

Professor Bora and Vaseegeeran (dual role of Rajinikanth)

I absolutely hated Professor Bora. It's not that I hated the person who was playing his role; I hated the type of person he had to act. What the heck was his problem? I mean, Vaseegeeran was your student right? What teacher doesn't want his students to succeed in life? A jealous teacher is what I say. Instead of being jealous, he should have tried to figure out what he was doing wrong with his robots instead of stealing Vaseegeeran's blueprint. Isn't that what a scientist is supposed to do? If something goes wrong in the experiment, scientists should go back and figure out what was wrong in the lab in the first place and act on it. The idea is nice, but not everyone in this world is a kind person. He was too lazy to go back and see what he did wrong, so he had to steal and look where that ended him. He ended up dying by the same robot that he created. I feel that he shouldn't have died. I know I said all these bad things about him so it might be ironic to say that he shouldn't have died. He should have survived so that justice could have been served. There is nothing better than seeing a villain rot in jail at the end of the movie.

I loved Vaseegeeran. He is such a sweet person. He succeeded in the righteous way. He is what most people hope to do in the future with their careers. I mean, how often is it that we get a job in the field that we study in? Especially, with the job market these days, it's very unlikely. He made Chitti. He was really naive to think that his own professor would not plot against him which is what ended up happening at the end. I could tell just by looking at the professor that he hates Vaseegeeran. It was actually really clever of him to dress up as Chitti to meet Sana, but the blood gave it away. After all, robots don't bleed. They are made out of metal. I feel that he went too far when he dismantled Chitti. I get that he felt that there was nothing else to do, but he should have thought rationally before he made any decision. I guess you lose your senses when you are in love. The conversations between him and his assistants were too funny. I was literally laughing my butt off when the assistants would try to mess with Chitti and Chitti would snitch on them. That's what you get when you try to work against your boss. It's creation will be indebted to it, so it will rat out any opposers.

Chitti (Rajinikanth)

Oh my God, Chitti was so just so cute! Who doesn't want a Chitti in their lives? I want one that's for sure. It would be nice to have a robot do all of my work for me, including my studies. That's all nice, but what would happen to people? People would be more lazy than they already are. I am guilty of this, so don't judge. When I said this, I am saying this based on my personality. If this is not how you are, then please forgive me.  I digress. Chitti is the symbol of innocence. He is an adult with a child's brain. He would do what he was commanded to do because he was engineered that way. Children are the same way too, especially young children. When young children are asked to do something, they do it because if an elder is the one asking them to do the thing, then they are probably in the right. They usually think elders have better judgements, so they don't bother questioning any ulterior motives behind the thing. This mentality does not last forever. It would be detrimental for people if people did not change. It could even be lethal. People change. People start to develop their own judgements. That's what happened to Chitti. Vaseegeeran tried his level best to inject some feelings into Chitti. His endless efforts represent how adults will try to wheedle children out of their ways. Children are put into that position where they start to question right from wrong. On one side are the parents who try to instill their values into their children and on the other side, there are the children who are still forming their judgments, but they start to have their parents' values infiltrate into their systems. Once Chitti developed his own emotions, that's when the story actually begins as that's what he says at the end of the movie at the museum.

A/N

Since this movie was mostly a science fiction movie, I didn't really focus on the soundtrack for this movie.