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.  

Looking Beyond the Obvious

I joined the software industry to know how it works.  That was 13 years ago.  Now, I think, I know how it works.   The tech savy interests are more or less gone - not that they are already fulfilled.   After certain stage, I realized that at least my mind is not open enough to accomodate the "new".   Not the Object Orientation,  Java/EJB - leave alone the new stuffs in the industry and altogether related verticles of modern world like visual graphics, that is redefining the cinema industry in India  or  the items like "enterprise software architecture"  that encompasses through both hardware and deployment softwares for load balancing, routing, firewall and what not....

Well, the above is not the point relating to the subject.   Given that I am more dealing with more and more the so called "managerial" aspects in my profession,   there are always many jargons I come across.    One of them surely is "looking beyond the obvious" - Most of the times the problems are always symptoms, the root causes are elsewhere.  

But an incident with my wife was a different eye-opener.   She went with our son to a shop to buy him some dress.  My son was thirsty and asked for water.   Like any other "contemporary IT" mother,  my wife thought that he was wanting some ice-cream or a juice which is coming as this "thirsty" request.   She promised him a juice once they finish the work at the shop.  

After done the shopping, my wife looked for a juice shop.   The next door was a Restaurant cum BAR (which is not unusual in the city we live).   She asked for juice in the shop - unfortunately they did not have at that time.   She was about to come out and my son stopped her...   He told "amma,  what is the problem if they do not have the juice,  they have water ".......   

Many a times, we make our life problems compounded.  The above instance is a simple example.   Now here comes the next management jargon... "keep it simple"!!!!  I will keep an eye on my son.   He will give me another case to write on this subject.