"Dude its Rajni, its A.R Rahman and its Shankar and it can't get better than this" was probably the buzz ever since the project of Endhiran aka Robot was announced long back. With tickets for the movie being priced in thousands of rupees, true fanatics would even sell their kidneys to watch the movie on the first day. No doubt the graphics and animation were of great standard but what about the story and what about the Rajni factor?
With people generating a fetish for producing insanely high budget movies, once a producer decides to succumb to thins kind of BDSM, it's hard for him to pull out midway. Frankly speaking, the majority of the expenditure went into special effects which literally dragged the movie close to 3 hours. The attitude of the producer looked like, "Dude I've paid you a lot of money for these special effects and I'm gona have my penny's worth by filling the movie with all possible special effects to the last scene". Mr.Producer will probably have the widest grin on his face as he got back all 150 crores he spent within the first 2 weeks.
For all those who are thinking of watching the movie, please wait for few more days when you can watch it on the small screen. For all those who have already watched it, I'm sure you wouldn't have been totally happy for the money you spent. For all those who have booked your tickets and are waiting to watch the movie, these are some of the things you have to be prepared for:
1> The metamorphosis of Ash from Miss World to Miss. Flabby Aunty.
2> Eye catching male breasts of Rajni.
3> Blatant product placement of numerous well known brands which scream out loud " I am the best, please buy me ".
4> Mosquitoes conversing in Tamil/Hindi/whichever language it is dubbed into.
5> Below par music and songs in which the great man tries too hard to dance.
6> Ash trying to ape Fergie with her skin tight leather pants which is a total failure, thanks to her married woman structure(also refer to 1>).
7> Amazing shots of Machu Picchu. Probably the 1st time this location is shown in Indian cinema and Mr.Producer has made sure that the whole song revolves around the same background to get the best out of the crew's travel expenses.
8> No typical Rajni style and dialogues. A newbie probably starts to wonder if all those Doom-Mongering yet highly possible statements about Rajni are actually true.
I'm sure many of the Rajni fans would probably disagree with all the above statements but then again, being a true fan isn't it your responsibility to expect the best and critique the rest? I personally felt that this was Shankar and Rajni's worst movie in terms of quality but probably the best in terms of commercial appeal. Hope someday in the future, before I take my last breath, I get to relive the aura of Rajni with a meager budget movie and a thought provoking story by Shankar.
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