"A star requires great looks, good height, versatile acting, six-pack body, etc. And if one has none of the above he will become superstar Rajni."
- Ramgopal Varma
- Ramgopal Varma
It is very difficult to figure out to which I should express my awe:
1. Sachin hit his 49th Test Century.
2. India won 101 medals in CWG.
3. Endhiran – The Robot show started at 5 am (read again it is 5 in the morning)
I will stick to Robot for now for the kind of hysteria only, the bus conductor from Bengaluru turned Thalaivaa in Chennai, RAJNI can create. Nowhere, mind you, nowhere in the world has a movie started at 5 am in the morning. Sergey Bubka broke his own pole vault world record 35 times in a span of 20 years. RAJNI has been breaking not only his own records but of everyone else across the world for the past 35 years. A new Indian record in the collections:
• 1st week collections – 117 crores (Tamil version)
• 1st week collections – 15 crores (Hindi version)
Raju Hirani and Shankar both saved their movies by not casting SRK (who was their initial choice) in their respective movies, Munnabhai MBBS and Endhiran. Shankar joins hands with Rajni once again after the success of “Sivaji The Boss” to create magic on the silver screen with “Endhiran – The Robot” with a whooping budget of INR 162 crores, costliest movie in Asia. Rajni charged INR 26 crores for the movie making him second highest paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan. And Aish charged INR 6 crores making her the highest paid actress in India. Just when everyone thought that Chulbul Pandey and Ranchhoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad were way ahead in the race, Rajni saar(who has never endorsed a product till date) said “Lakalakalakalakalaka Ippudu Choodu Kanna (See now son)” and breaks all the records in Indian Cinema Chanchad (who sells coke), Pandey (who sells washing powder), Sarkar (who sells laal dant manjan) or the guy who recently realized his name was Khan (who sells fairness cream) ever created.
Vaseegaran (Rajni), a scientist, creates Chitti (Robot Rajni) a super intelligent android with enormous powers including emotions (use your creativity here…this Robot can do anything…well so can Rajni). Chitti walks like Rajni, talks like Rajni and emotes like Rajni. And as in all the stories of the world the main source of problem is a woman. Chitti falls in love with Vaseegaran’s love interest Sana (Aish) and a love triangle starts. Danny Denzgonpa, Vaseegaran’s boss, implants a red chip into Chitti so that he can control it, but the plan backfires and Chitti goes rogue. (Rajni has till date defied the laws of physics in all his movies which led to the death of Newton and Einstein and now he defies Biology, Physiology and Anatomy) Chitti kidnaps Sana and plans to impregnate her and create an army of Robots known as Robosapiens(I thought wtf… but as per a fan who saw the movie at 5 am in Chennai…Thalaivaa controls Science, Science doesnot control Thalaivaa…but I was still left wondering how does a Robot create “the best swimmers in the world” to create his off springs….I could not control my laughter at this insanity). Anyways finally it is Armageddon between Rajni (Vaseegaran) and Rajni (Robot).
Shankar has borrowed the concepts of a Robot with emotions from Becentinnial Man and the action sequences from Terminator and Iron Man series and has blended the Indian masala sentiments to make it worthy of watch by Indian audience.
The first half is filled with various antics of the Robot in Rajni’s unique ishtyle. People have mocked at Rajni’s capability of defying science, but with Rajni as Robot, Shankar takes full liberty to defy every logic. Rajni runs faster than a running train, skates on the railway track, runs on the train sideways, reads books by just glancing at them, cooks every kind of food, walks through fire to save people, rotates his head 360 degrees, can apply mehendi at an amazing speed, helps Sana to copy during exams by projecting answers on her answer sheet, kicks every goon troubling Sana and even delivers a baby by just the knowledge of reading Aish’s textbooks. You will just fall in love with Rajni- The Robot. Shankar is a genius and his creativity seen in most of the scenes. The best scene in the first half is when Chitti rescues Sana from goons and pulls away all their knives with his magnetic field and stands like a Goddess with Trishul, Sword, knives etc….it was priceless(watch it to believe).
There is a thin line of difference between being a creative genius and madness. And the thin line of difference is the Intermission.
Shankar moves from being a creative genius in the first half to never ending madness in the second half. The madness began when Chitti chases a mosquito which had bit Sana (the initial indications of a director going crazy).Defying every logic with an overdose of Masala in the second half, the encounter between the scientist and the Robot has some of the best special effects ever seen in an Indian movie, created by Stan Winston studios (same studio provided special effects for Avatar). Attention to detail has been amazing and the special effects will blow you away. I was surprised that there was not a single scene with Rajni’s signature style of moving his hands or a cloth making the whooosh, wheeesh noise or the scene of popping a cigarette. Though the scene is borrowed from the movie” The Mask”, its amazing to watch Chitti shoot with hundreds of machine guns held in his two hands and saying “Happy Diwali boys”. The other best part was to listen to Chitti telling Sana how he plans to impregnate her (With this scene Shankar had become completely insane). Money is well spent by Shankar and team with the army of Robots (All of them are Rajni) taking the form of a huge snake to swallow the cops and their cars or as a huge driller or a huge pyramid to reach a flying chopper. But the best scene is when all Robots rotate their heads 360 degrees and Chitti “mehs” like a sheep to catch “The Black Sheep” (Vaseegaran) who has disguised himself as a Robot. Watch this scene and you will surely say give me more of this craziness.
Music by Rahman is hummable but doesnot stay in your memory for long. The song sequences have Shankar’s name stamped all over them with the screen turning into a collage of colours. Single Rajni can do wonders, but with army of Rajnis it is a great spectacle. My eyes were glued to the screen watching God’s greatest creation, the Super Hot Mangalorean chic Aish, shake her booty for the song Kilimanjaro and Endhiran(Title song). There is nothing sexier than watching Aish (every man’s dream girl) swaying in a saree. It reminds of a poster of Aish from the movie Kandukondein Kandukondein stuck on my study table in my college days 10 yrs ago. The then 50 kg Tajmahal (now more like a 60 kg Tajmahal) looks more full now and sensuous, it was worth every penny I paid. Though Aish has very less to do in the movie, she looks stunning in South Indian attire, just can’t take your eyes off her when she is on the screen. Thank you Lord for giving us this hot chic.
• 1st week collections – 117 crores (Tamil version)
• 1st week collections – 15 crores (Hindi version)
Raju Hirani and Shankar both saved their movies by not casting SRK (who was their initial choice) in their respective movies, Munnabhai MBBS and Endhiran. Shankar joins hands with Rajni once again after the success of “Sivaji The Boss” to create magic on the silver screen with “Endhiran – The Robot” with a whooping budget of INR 162 crores, costliest movie in Asia. Rajni charged INR 26 crores for the movie making him second highest paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan. And Aish charged INR 6 crores making her the highest paid actress in India. Just when everyone thought that Chulbul Pandey and Ranchhoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad were way ahead in the race, Rajni saar(who has never endorsed a product till date) said “Lakalakalakalakalaka Ippudu Choodu Kanna (See now son)” and breaks all the records in Indian Cinema Chanchad (who sells coke), Pandey (who sells washing powder), Sarkar (who sells laal dant manjan) or the guy who recently realized his name was Khan (who sells fairness cream) ever created.
Vaseegaran (Rajni), a scientist, creates Chitti (Robot Rajni) a super intelligent android with enormous powers including emotions (use your creativity here…this Robot can do anything…well so can Rajni). Chitti walks like Rajni, talks like Rajni and emotes like Rajni. And as in all the stories of the world the main source of problem is a woman. Chitti falls in love with Vaseegaran’s love interest Sana (Aish) and a love triangle starts. Danny Denzgonpa, Vaseegaran’s boss, implants a red chip into Chitti so that he can control it, but the plan backfires and Chitti goes rogue. (Rajni has till date defied the laws of physics in all his movies which led to the death of Newton and Einstein and now he defies Biology, Physiology and Anatomy) Chitti kidnaps Sana and plans to impregnate her and create an army of Robots known as Robosapiens(I thought wtf… but as per a fan who saw the movie at 5 am in Chennai…Thalaivaa controls Science, Science doesnot control Thalaivaa…but I was still left wondering how does a Robot create “the best swimmers in the world” to create his off springs….I could not control my laughter at this insanity). Anyways finally it is Armageddon between Rajni (Vaseegaran) and Rajni (Robot).
Shankar has borrowed the concepts of a Robot with emotions from Becentinnial Man and the action sequences from Terminator and Iron Man series and has blended the Indian masala sentiments to make it worthy of watch by Indian audience.
The first half is filled with various antics of the Robot in Rajni’s unique ishtyle. People have mocked at Rajni’s capability of defying science, but with Rajni as Robot, Shankar takes full liberty to defy every logic. Rajni runs faster than a running train, skates on the railway track, runs on the train sideways, reads books by just glancing at them, cooks every kind of food, walks through fire to save people, rotates his head 360 degrees, can apply mehendi at an amazing speed, helps Sana to copy during exams by projecting answers on her answer sheet, kicks every goon troubling Sana and even delivers a baby by just the knowledge of reading Aish’s textbooks. You will just fall in love with Rajni- The Robot. Shankar is a genius and his creativity seen in most of the scenes. The best scene in the first half is when Chitti rescues Sana from goons and pulls away all their knives with his magnetic field and stands like a Goddess with Trishul, Sword, knives etc….it was priceless(watch it to believe).
There is a thin line of difference between being a creative genius and madness. And the thin line of difference is the Intermission.
Shankar moves from being a creative genius in the first half to never ending madness in the second half. The madness began when Chitti chases a mosquito which had bit Sana (the initial indications of a director going crazy).Defying every logic with an overdose of Masala in the second half, the encounter between the scientist and the Robot has some of the best special effects ever seen in an Indian movie, created by Stan Winston studios (same studio provided special effects for Avatar). Attention to detail has been amazing and the special effects will blow you away. I was surprised that there was not a single scene with Rajni’s signature style of moving his hands or a cloth making the whooosh, wheeesh noise or the scene of popping a cigarette. Though the scene is borrowed from the movie” The Mask”, its amazing to watch Chitti shoot with hundreds of machine guns held in his two hands and saying “Happy Diwali boys”. The other best part was to listen to Chitti telling Sana how he plans to impregnate her (With this scene Shankar had become completely insane). Money is well spent by Shankar and team with the army of Robots (All of them are Rajni) taking the form of a huge snake to swallow the cops and their cars or as a huge driller or a huge pyramid to reach a flying chopper. But the best scene is when all Robots rotate their heads 360 degrees and Chitti “mehs” like a sheep to catch “The Black Sheep” (Vaseegaran) who has disguised himself as a Robot. Watch this scene and you will surely say give me more of this craziness.
Music by Rahman is hummable but doesnot stay in your memory for long. The song sequences have Shankar’s name stamped all over them with the screen turning into a collage of colours. Single Rajni can do wonders, but with army of Rajnis it is a great spectacle. My eyes were glued to the screen watching God’s greatest creation, the Super Hot Mangalorean chic Aish, shake her booty for the song Kilimanjaro and Endhiran(Title song). There is nothing sexier than watching Aish (every man’s dream girl) swaying in a saree. It reminds of a poster of Aish from the movie Kandukondein Kandukondein stuck on my study table in my college days 10 yrs ago. The then 50 kg Tajmahal (now more like a 60 kg Tajmahal) looks more full now and sensuous, it was worth every penny I paid. Though Aish has very less to do in the movie, she looks stunning in South Indian attire, just can’t take your eyes off her when she is on the screen. Thank you Lord for giving us this hot chic. 
Rajni is the most bankable star for any producer and distributor. After the debacle of Baba and Kuselan, Rajni personally made up for the loss of all the distributors, no other actor in Bollywood has displayed this kind of professionalism and generosity till date. Rajni is the REAL SUPERSTAR because of his humility even after being India’s highest paid actor and stays true to his words “En Vazhi Tani Vazhi (I walk the unique path)”. The tamil version is a crazy hit with all the theaters in Tamil Nadu running houseful in the opening weekend collecting INR 95 crores. No wonder there is a panic button pressed in Ra.One and KKrish -2 production houses. The only person who can break Rajni Saar’s record is Rajni Saar (SRK and Roshan…hope you are listening).
Forget all your problems and definitely all laws of Science, go watch the movie, get entertained for nearly 3 hours. Enjoy the Rajni phenomena (8th wonder of the world) when it lasts.
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