Getting the tickets for the movie -
Robot, standing in the Que for the movie. The last movie that went house full and i was not able to get the movie tickets, don't even remember. After reading House Full for the show, still standing in the line, i give the call to the person sitting in the box office, we exchanged numbers, during one of my innumerable visits to the cinema house. He assures he will give me the tickets, then the fear sets in that we will be giving the last row seats. Yes he did, last row seats from the back and not from the screen.
I have not seen many Rajnikanth movies, the last movie that remember watching was Hum starring Amithabh Bachchan. Of course, Tamil is not first language, Now i feel that i have lost out a lot of time not watching his movies.
With though all with the dubbing entertaining hassles in Hindi for the movie, the special effects actually made up if there is anything wrong in the movie. Rajnikanth, will surely handle it and he does best. Rajnikanth, who is actually 60 plus years old has played three different characters - the scientist Mr. Vasi, who creates the Robot, Chitti and the evil robot, Chitti again and then 1000 Chitti's in the movie. One question that arises, for which character was Rajnikanth paid and if it was for all 1000s of character, then he should be beating Warren Buffet, this year.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, is plastic, this is something that we have heard, read, blogged, tweeted a zillion times, except Guru, probably. But this time this quality actually suited her since she was there to sing and dance with the Robot for most of the songs. Complete 10/10 for casting for this role, if there is a sequel for Robot, please call it Female Robot, and you know who is best suited for the role.
for this movie, we waited till the of the Credits in hope to see locations of the songs which was a beautiful cinematography, which was missed and references like the one on Wikipedia pages. Let me add the following:
Movies
* Mask - the scene where he has innumerable guns
* Matrix Revolutions - Mr. Smith and his clones
* Men In Black - slimy gooey, alien living in the suers
* Mummy - dress worn by Aishwarya
* Salt - Angelina jumping on a truck trailer
* Transformers - just that you have a large giant robot
* Jurassic Park - the dinosaur chasing the cars, unable to catch it
* Bicentennial Man - where Robin Williams wants to get feelings
* I am Legend - all the droids looked liked the extras from the movie
* Terminator - red eye popping out
* Charlie and Chocolate Factory - the hardworking Rajnikanth clones reminded off the Oompas - Loopas
* The evil Rajnikanth resembles the good Kamal Hasan in Indian
* Star Wars - Princess Liea's attire; R2d2, C3PO
* Flubber - where the scientist neglects his relationship
* Golmal - Ajay Devgan making an entry into the movie on two bikes, cars
Cartoon
* Power Rangers - a complete dress code of the extras
Music Videos
* Janet Jackson in the video Scream
* Fergie - Black Eyed Peas - from the hair style to style of vocals, complete
* Madonna - Aishwarya Rai wearing a modest corset
... and the list continues ...
Music - The lyrics have been butchered and completely lost in translation from Tamil to Hindi and we had a hearty laugh on them. The lyricist, after much research should have added some form sense in the
Being Rajnikanth, who has completely surpasses his acting skills and combining the same with the technical team is phenomenal. The list SFX, 2D, Special effects teams that were working on this movie was phenomenal.
Wait till the end of the last action sequence that is completely original. The movie is a complete Indian Sci-fi which Indian directors are scared to make. It also raises pertinent issues in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, do we need to droids with feelings and reasoning capabilities. This movie other being huge commercial success, it should be one of the entries into Oscars in the Foreign Language category - A complete entertainer.