The jokes on his movies are a legend. For the tech savvy, You will find them mostly circulating in e-mails. Billed as a mega movie with Indian Rupees 150 crore budget, Robot lives upto its hype.
What impressed me was the technology and the standards that had gone in the making of this movie. The point to remember is such a movie has come not from the mainstream bollywood cinema but the regional language Tamil movie industry. The concept of IT and an intelligent storyline has meant that thankfully this movie doesn't end up like any other special effects heavy movie but most importantly a movie with a soul.
Nobody will grudge Sun TV (producers of this movie) their millions however one shouldn't forget that all this wouldn't have been possible but for the single minded devotion of the Director Shankar who spared no expense in sourcing the best action, special effects, exotic locations and as mentioned above for scripting a movie with a sensible storyline. One look at the end credits of the movie gives an idea of what I am talking about.
Music by A R Rahman except for the title song Yentra and the chart topping Kilimanjaro is ok. When a man like Rajnikanth is around there is not much scope for the opposite gender. Aishwarya is the glamour quotient of the movie and also the love interest of the Robot gone rogue. Danny Denzongpa leaves his mark on the movie as Professor Bora who is envious of his protege Dr.Vaseegaran's success with Artificial Intelligence and sabotages his dream project.
This is not to say that the movie doesn't have flaws which infact it does. But in terms of technological sophistication and the sheer scale it more than matches Hollywood. In other words it has set the gold standard for the Indian movie industry by scoring some firsts in a lot of departments.
I do agree with Rajni's diehard fans that Rajni is the superstar atleast in this part of the world :)
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