Saturday, March 12, 2011

Enthiran - A delayed "view" and "review"

My other post on the label narrates my taste for Rajnikant - a gifted, wonderful actor - not just a commercial King.    Despite my "craze" for him,  I could not find the right window to watch the ultra-hit movie "Enthiran" at the time of its release.    Finally I watched the movie on its 100th Day.

I had been quite impressed with a lot of "TV" shows, interviews about this movie.   Audio Release,  Rajni's interview,  Making of the movie etc.. were quite propagating the greatness, uniqueness, adventurousness - and you can add many more such "ness"....   I was impressed.   My friends told me that I would enjoy the movie for Rajnikant for his performance.  

With all these put behind my mind,  I suspected that I might not like the movie as much as I would expect.   And it was the case.   Though there are a few things which are real good.   The top most is the vision with which Late Sujata had written the script for this movie.  A ROBOT with such as skill is very much a possibility in today's world - however, to imagine that in late 80s could not have been a simple one.

The second aspect is the effort and execution Rajni had demonstrated in this movie.   He is simply superb.   He had perfectly fitted into the role of ROBOT in many characters "humble servant",  "dreadfull villain",  "innocent machine", "graceful dancer".  His efforts are relentless and his approach towards the movie with such a high commitment and dedication is an inspiration for everyone - not just for those in the film industry, but for anyone.

Now, coming to the part - what I did not like so much,  the movie is too much "tech weighed".    Despite that the film is fully aided by "graphics",   there is pure lack of "creativity".  The film starts with arrival of ROBOT and entire first half is how nice "chitti" is.  The scene sequences identified are very ordinary ( not that they are natural ).   The second half has no substance at all.   After Chitti becoming the villain, there is no "sense" prevailed in the story, in my view.

The simplest of the things that I could not understand is that "Chitti is only a robot.  He does not have "emotional sense" - meaning, if someone touches him "light" or "rough" will only make litte difference.  The covet by Robot for Ash is something that I could not understand and the entire movie revolves around it. 

The movie is as "stupid" as "I think".  Except for some major sccale of efforts in "graphics" - that too not of much skillful or artistic but only gigantic,  the film is very very ordinary.  

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