Endhiran is highly imaginative and entertaining!
‘Shankar’ – When I hear the name, the first thing whichflashes in my mind is that tight close up of Kamal Haasan in the opening scene of Indian, in which his cheeks wriggle due to the strength he applies upon piercing a rusty knife into a corrupt government servant’s belly. The sheer intensity of that scene had made me dumbstruck during those days!
Now coming to 2010, Shankar’s dream project Endhiran lacks the intensity and the emotional quotient involved in his earlier films, but delivers what it promised- power packed action, Wacky special effects, eye watering visuals and on top of all that, a whole lot of fun!
The story revolves around Vaseegaran, a brilliant scientist played by Rajnikanth who builds up his own Robot with a vision to help the Indian army in their security forces. The robot is named Chitti and soon captures the interests of Vaseegaran’s family and his love interest Sana, played by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. But his mentor, Dr. Bora played by Danny Denzogpa gets envious of Vaseegaran’s achievement and thats when the story takes a serious turn.
There are hell of a lot of sequences that will evoke wolf whistles inside the hall. Talking about those would end up spoiling your thrill of witnessing it on screen. And as performances are concerned, Rajnikanth plays 3 characters in the film with so much ease and maturity that you tend to evoke a certain amount of respect for the veteran when you walk out of the hall. Aishwarya Rai isn’t quiet impressive and ends up giving an average performance. Everybody else does justice to their roles.
Now what goes wrong with Endhiran is the screenplay post intermission. The writing lacks sense of direction and excess songs add to the trauma. There are at least 15 minutes of unwanted scenes and songs to be cut off from the film. Its high time Shankar sticks on to his old editors B. Lenin and VT Vijayan, who does superior work considering the editing of Endhiran and Sivaji done by Anthony. Resul Pookkutty delivers an impressive sound design, which thrills you like some Hollywood flick does. AR Rahman’s brilliant background score gives the whole film an epic feel right from the starting credits.
Leaving the tedious length of Endhiran, the film is definitely worth every penny you spend for the ticket, and its the best to come out of India when it comes to special effects and CGI. And to conclude, the film ends up being original, highly imaginative and gripping at most parts. How I wished to see more of that huge ball of Rajnikanth rolling over the floor, firing bullets! 70% of the film demands a repeat viewing. Hats off to Shankar and team.
Rating: 3.5 / 5 [Visual Spectacle]
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Hari
October 2, 2010
Unfortunately, the movie released online the same time it released in india because of Early release in Australia..So, i ended up watching it online..
I felt that last climax fight scene was definitely over done., it kinda feels to me like they just wanted to imitate the hollywood graphics, so, for the heck of it, they added so much effects.. and yeah, i definitely agree that at least 15mins worth of scene is just not worth it..
And Rajini being a Scientist seems to be dumb by just breaking the parts of the ROBOT physically instead of taking out the main neural codes and the key data parts of the robot with a class and may be showing something like deleting all the codes kinda scene would be more practical..
COME ON SHANKAR..I didn’t expect such a mistake from you.
But, all that said, Its definitely a winner in BOX OFFICE HIT atleast coz of RAJINI !!
Ejaz
October 2, 2010
I put my wallet out today for the same! I say the movie is huge and heavy both pinged under budget and watchable!!
Hallowed by thy verdicts, I should say you are right and precise when we look with the eyes of a person spending his time with film making!! Anyways I strongly support this article which could literally make people ending up in the theater!!
About the mistake which Hari just quoted,, Hell yeah!! you got that right brother but taking this scientist’s emotional possessive venture out of his girl friend, I believe we could literally support the way he dispatched the machine,, oh! c’mon man! what would you’ve done!!
, but its definitely a blame-faith for the director!
And finally, Ranking!! I’ll just say!! “HUGE” and “WATCH IT” !!
rakesh
October 3, 2010
@ hari ” And Rajini being a Scientist seems to be dumb by just breaking the parts of the ROBOT physically instead of taking out the main neural codes and the key data parts of the robot with a class and may be showing something like deleting all the codes kinda scene would be more practical..”
when u r tensed and angry , we usually kick things which is in front of u .. robo was the cause for the troubles that had wit the scientist, so in that moment kicking / hitting the robo is the apt …that wud reach all audience… instead as u say ” deleting the code, changing the program , deleting the program.” it wont reach all audience..only u and me , only a limited set of ppl wil understand wat is been done!!! its a rajni film ( people of all classes has to watch it) it shud reach all audience. shankr has 2 be appreciated for his out of the box thinking and the writer (late) sujatha has to be applauded for his fictionous work