Director: Shankar
Cast: Rajinikant, Aishwarya Rai, Danny Dangzongpa
Rating: 4 STAR
For anyone and everyone who has ever complained that Rajnikant’s onscreen antics are overblown of heroism, director Shankar this time justifies his larger-than-life screen persona by making him a robot and imbibing him with fanciful superpowers.
Dr Vasi (Rajnikant) is a scientist who has created an andro-humanoid robot named Chitti (Rajnikant again) who takes instructions and can perform any task effortlessly. His only shortcoming is that being a machine, he cannot understand human emotions. Dr. Vasi upgrades Chitti’s processor and simulates human emotions without realizing the repercussions. Chitti gets transformed. He can now feel, and the first feeling that he discovers is Love.
Will this love come in the way of Dr. Vasi’s purpose of creating Chitti? Will Dr. Vasi’s own creation destroy him?
Robot is the flawless combination of biggest superstar and best special effects ever on the Indian screen. The visual effects take a cue from Hollywood films like Terminator, Spiderman, The Mask and Godzilla but amplify it to gigantic proportions and full-blown sequences. And despite the action and effects, the movie never gets too intense and keeps amusing you through its amazing and unusual sense of humour.
Aishwarya Rai, like the heroine of any Rajnikant film, is supposed to look gorgeous, which she does throughout the film.
If you are expecting just two Rajnikant in Robot, think again. The climax has a hundred Rajnikant prototypes who come together to bring to you the best special effects witnessed in any Indian film till date. And you still can’t get enough of him. That’s the charisma of the superstar.