Endhiren Review

 

The most expensive Tamil film made in this decade: it hails as a bold and daring approach to the conventional Tamil movie genre and it does not dissapoint its audience.

Story: 4/5(shouldn't have dragged the climax scene =/)
CGI: 5/5(a very fresh approach and something new and...bold)
Acting: 5/5(SuperStar Rajnikanth does not fail you in this movie. But then again, when has he ever failed us? -Baba is forgiven-
Aish...well, I was never her fan so I might be just a teeny bit biased =P
Danny Dengzopa well, I am impressed. Just wow-ed me @o@)
Plot: Top-notch. Need I say more?
Overall: Step aside Muthu/Padaiyappa/Badshah/Talapathi-a new classic is here!


I will admit I never liked or respected Tamil films before this because to me they were the same old thing:
boy meets girl, they fall in love, they cant be together, boy must proof his worth, girl swoons, parents agree, and they live happily ever after.
How thrilling.

Endhiren is mostly intellect, humor and logical sequences of events. No over-the-top sentiments, performances or the tiring solo-ironman-who-had-instant-karate-lessons-within-2 seconds gig.
Dont expect to see Vadivelu's slapstick jokes or Vivek's political jokes. Rajni took that job and delivers it with an ease you forget the missing comedians.

Rajni is Dr.Vaseegaran: a genius specializing in mechascience who created a super humanoid that surpasses an average human being's abilities-scanning a book for a few seconds and memorizing the entire shit is just ONE of them. Watch the movie to find what else his robot can do whom he named as Chitti.
Minor spoiler here: check out Chitti when he turns 'bad'. You will shit bricks out of the sheer awesomeness.
Check out Chitti reciting a love poem in an audience of ballistics officers. Priceless EPIC scene!!!


Rajni as Chitti was remarkable. Morphing into Chitti, Rajni becomes a robot. His appearence was also made 'fakey' to make him look..well like a robot pasted with artificial human skin. His movements, gestures and reactions: very mecha! You would expect a prototype robot to behave in such fashion!

Dont ask me about Aish, I really dont know what else to say about her role in the movie except for being the required heroine and eye-candy for audiences, she a great dancer but in once song she was wearing this purple costume and she was flapping in those like a chicken. I laughed-no really I did.
Anyway, for fear of her fans bombarding into my blog and going psycho: I shall stop here. Zip.

Characters in Endhiren are regular people with neutral personalities. There arent stylized movie characters.
You can relate to the characters in the film(except for Aish who comes across as a highly unlikable ditzy character). I need to shut up here before her fans put up a protest in front of my house. XD
You dont find self-sacrificing comrades, the loyal underdog who has Hammer Space loyalty or those irritating errand boys that hand on to every word of the main character.

I strongly recommend you people out there to give this movie a chance. see for it yourself.
It's worth your buck.

Rajnikanth as Dr.Vaseegaran

The only man who can look THIS good at the age of 63. 

Rajni as 'good' Chitti:

This is Chitti still innocent: notice the David Bowie hairstyle? Oh yeah...MONUMENTAL.

This is Chitti  turned rotten egg:

Badassery becomes you. BD


And as an off-topic rambling:

Dont you people out there dare compare this movie to Bollywood movies. DO NOT insult the Tamil film
industry by comparing us to those insipid celebrities and mundane movies of Bollywood.
The reason for this hostility towards our Hindi speaking half- a lot of Bollywood fans dont like this movie,
and I think it's largely due to the jelousy that a TAMIL film had break the record as the 'New Generation'.

Endhiren belongs to us Tamilians and it is in a class of his own. You Bollywood-ers can suck it up.