The special effects, the foresightedness, the progressive storyline were some of the things which used to intrigue us and make us watch movies like Terminator, Matrix etc.
So here comes the most expensive Asian Venture which has all the ingredients of a blockbuster – Enthiran the Robot. I watched the movie in the second week of its release after the euphoria associated with the first week had settled down a bit. Though the movie’s popularity is all around Rajnikanth being the Hero but I would hands down give all credit to Shankar whose vision is what we finally got to see. The only area which might be a little bit of a downer is the screenplay but overall it still manages to catch the eye of the audience.
The story revolves around a scientist who makes a human robot and equips with all skills possible to make it mentally and physically superior and wants to give it to the army. When the point comes for it to acquire a patent one of the panel member who is the scientist’s professor and current rival rejects it telling that the robot does not have emotions. Scientist then embarks on adding that to the list of qualities robot which he achieves. After this starts the real story of how the robot is misused by the Professor in his greed of money by using it for destruction and how then the robot gets out of control.
The movie is a brilliant venture in terms of visual effects and good use of Indian context to cater to all kinds of audiences.
Two scenes that I liked best are:
Scene 1 – The Robot Rajnikant while taking up with local goons with his electromagnetic power attracts all the metal stuff on to him and then when it gets reassembled looks like god in some form with thrissul sword etc. The people around him start praying to him.
Scene 2 – During the climax when all the robots come together in their first formation and start the fight.
