With all the hype around the movie Endhiran (the Tax exempt version of Robot), I finally watched it in a theater in US after the theater decided to drop the price
Mind you, it was still more expensive than watching Avatar, the 3D version
The theater was really small unlike what the name implied, maybe I shouldn't read into things too much
I don't expect anything less from a Shankar Movie than a Top notch entertainer (Top notch by any Tamil movie standard) Without a question, he delivers again But, the hype was that the movie is up to the international standards! And that's where I felt cheated and disappointed!
From the beginning of the movie, somehow questions started popping up in my mind May be the popcorn that I was munching had something to do with it .
Why would an accomplished Robotics scientist hire couple of Incompetent Ignorant assistants to such a high caliber job?
Am I crazy to think that the Scientist is a criminal as he runs away from the crime scene as his Robot causes a bloody injury? And the whole theater laughed at this scene! May be I'm crazy! Or, maybe it is OK because the injured is just a low level traffic cop as it is OK not to serve even coffee to the assistant as he is only a third level employee
Why would an incredibly talented Scientist, so callously smash a Robot and carelessly dump it in a dumpster Didn't he know that the Robot had the capability to casually reassemble itself?
Also, Isn't an incredible waste of a valuable resource to expect a Robot to tie it's "Master's" shoelace when it has mastered to calculate a prime number that would take years for a human to calculate? "Master of all trades, but a slave for its Master" This could be an apt subtitle for the movie..
How is it when a group of thugs try to molest a girl in a running train for so long and only a Robot is there to save, while, when the Robot kidnaps the girl, there is an army of cops available right away with Machine Guns (I mean Machine Guns!) and 20cc mopeds to save her?!
You might say, I'm misreading comedy elements as movie/character flaws..
Well, If I really wanted to watch a senseless comedy, I would rather watch Adam Sandler's "Waterboy" or the second half of Shahrukh Khan's "My Name is Khan"
I kept wondering, Why is such a talented (I'm not sarcastic here) director, Shankar, who is talented enough to transition a Robot into a human inconspicuously is complacent enough to transition from a scene to a song so abruptly.
Anyway, as a born Indian, Should I take pride in the technical accomplishments of this movie? The last I heard was that the technical work was done by the Hollywood professionals Oh! May be I just should take pride (I'm sarcastic here) in our ability to buy the technical talent from the US and call it our own achievement!
As always in a Shankar Movie, the songs were pretty good (lyrics and music) and were picturized nicely But, I wasn't really there to watch a nice music album rather I was there to witness a coming of age movie!
I might sound nitpicking on a wonderfully made movie.. May be it is wonderful in its own way
Yes, it is an entertainer But, don't expect this to be the cultural crossover movie to be recognized by the entire world! It is not! I hope they don't expect to promote to the world media that way! It will be a disservice to the Tamil talents like ManiRatnam, ARRahman and.. Well, I can't think of anyone else
For those in India, don't be hoodwinked by all the hoopla about this movie being greatly successful in US It is relatively successful only because the First Generation Indians like me (believe me, there are thousands of them) are flocking to the theaters where they don't mind sharing their seats (with the bedbugs) and sparing their hygiene It'll be more accurate if I put "only" again after "because" in the above statement
If you can get anyone else (anyone other than the first generation Indians) not to walkout within the first 15 minutes of this movie, then you may have to carry him/her in a stretcher after the movie or during the interval whichever fits you
BTW, hats off to the poet who compared beautiful lips of Aishwarya to zebra I guess her teeth are zebra crossings then
I don't expect anything less from a Shankar Movie than a Top notch entertainer (Top notch by any Tamil movie standard) Without a question, he delivers again But, the hype was that the movie is up to the international standards! And that's where I felt cheated and disappointed!
From the beginning of the movie, somehow questions started popping up in my mind May be the popcorn that I was munching had something to do with it .
Why would an accomplished Robotics scientist hire couple of Incompetent Ignorant assistants to such a high caliber job?
Am I crazy to think that the Scientist is a criminal as he runs away from the crime scene as his Robot causes a bloody injury? And the whole theater laughed at this scene! May be I'm crazy! Or, maybe it is OK because the injured is just a low level traffic cop as it is OK not to serve even coffee to the assistant as he is only a third level employee
Why would an incredibly talented Scientist, so callously smash a Robot and carelessly dump it in a dumpster Didn't he know that the Robot had the capability to casually reassemble itself?
Also, Isn't an incredible waste of a valuable resource to expect a Robot to tie it's "Master's" shoelace when it has mastered to calculate a prime number that would take years for a human to calculate? "Master of all trades, but a slave for its Master" This could be an apt subtitle for the movie..
How is it when a group of thugs try to molest a girl in a running train for so long and only a Robot is there to save, while, when the Robot kidnaps the girl, there is an army of cops available right away with Machine Guns (I mean Machine Guns!) and 20cc mopeds to save her?!
You might say, I'm misreading comedy elements as movie/character flaws..
Well, If I really wanted to watch a senseless comedy, I would rather watch Adam Sandler's "Waterboy" or the second half of Shahrukh Khan's "My Name is Khan"
I kept wondering, Why is such a talented (I'm not sarcastic here) director, Shankar, who is talented enough to transition a Robot into a human inconspicuously is complacent enough to transition from a scene to a song so abruptly.
Anyway, as a born Indian, Should I take pride in the technical accomplishments of this movie? The last I heard was that the technical work was done by the Hollywood professionals Oh! May be I just should take pride (I'm sarcastic here) in our ability to buy the technical talent from the US and call it our own achievement!
As always in a Shankar Movie, the songs were pretty good (lyrics and music) and were picturized nicely But, I wasn't really there to watch a nice music album rather I was there to witness a coming of age movie!
I might sound nitpicking on a wonderfully made movie.. May be it is wonderful in its own way
Yes, it is an entertainer But, don't expect this to be the cultural crossover movie to be recognized by the entire world! It is not! I hope they don't expect to promote to the world media that way! It will be a disservice to the Tamil talents like ManiRatnam, ARRahman and.. Well, I can't think of anyone else
For those in India, don't be hoodwinked by all the hoopla about this movie being greatly successful in US It is relatively successful only because the First Generation Indians like me (believe me, there are thousands of them) are flocking to the theaters where they don't mind sharing their seats (with the bedbugs) and sparing their hygiene It'll be more accurate if I put "only" again after "because" in the above statement
If you can get anyone else (anyone other than the first generation Indians) not to walkout within the first 15 minutes of this movie, then you may have to carry him/her in a stretcher after the movie or during the interval whichever fits you
BTW, hats off to the poet who compared beautiful lips of Aishwarya to zebra I guess her teeth are zebra crossings then