Aishwayra Rai Bachchan and Rajnikanth in Endhiran.
So, I hear this Tamil action star Rajnikanth is such a badass that he gets his own "Chuck Norris" type jokes. As in:
Rajnikanth never wet his bed as a child. The bed wet itself.
The only man who ever outsmarted Rajnikanth was Stephen Hawking. He got what he deserved.
Rajnikanth can throw the Thackerays out of Mumbai.
...OK, I don't understand the last one.
Endhiran had some internet buzz in North America (one of the Youtube clips is titled "Best Action Scenes Ever!!!), for its over-the-top CGI effects. The story is a boilerplate Pygmalion: a scientist (played by Rajnikanth) creates a sophisticated robot (also Rajnikanth) but to provide it with a sense of morality, the robot is also equipped with emotions. The robot gets a tingly sensation from the scientist's fiancee, but she doesn't want to honeymoon in Kashmir with a tin man. Something else happens, blah, blah, blah (the movie is 3 hours long), humungous CGI ending.
I found Aishwayra Rai Bachchan's character Sana incredibly undersketched. She's the heroine, with no other supporting evidence other than the fact that she's gorgeous. Let's forget she seems about twenty years too young for Rajnikanth, is in her mid-30s but apparently still in university, and would have flunked all her courses if she hadn't cheated. How can everyone be in love with Sana whens he is not much more than a manipulative twit?
Endhiran certainly throws a lot of magic tricks at us (and some are quite inventive) but the over-reliance on CGI creates a kind of visual monotony, especially the scenes where the robot has made infinite duplicates of himself. There's just something less awe-inspiring about an action scene knowing that it was pieced together by a computer geeks in a dark room, instead of by real blood-and-guts guys busting each others' chops.
Rajnikanth is so tough, he can kick a mosquito's ass!
Endhiran had some internet buzz in North America (one of the Youtube clips is titled "Best Action Scenes Ever!!!), for its over-the-top CGI effects. The story is a boilerplate Pygmalion: a scientist (played by Rajnikanth) creates a sophisticated robot (also Rajnikanth) but to provide it with a sense of morality, the robot is also equipped with emotions. The robot gets a tingly sensation from the scientist's fiancee, but she doesn't want to honeymoon in Kashmir with a tin man. Something else happens, blah, blah, blah (the movie is 3 hours long), humungous CGI ending.
I found Aishwayra Rai Bachchan's character Sana incredibly undersketched. She's the heroine, with no other supporting evidence other than the fact that she's gorgeous. Let's forget she seems about twenty years too young for Rajnikanth, is in her mid-30s but apparently still in university, and would have flunked all her courses if she hadn't cheated. How can everyone be in love with Sana whens he is not much more than a manipulative twit?
Endhiran certainly throws a lot of magic tricks at us (and some are quite inventive) but the over-reliance on CGI creates a kind of visual monotony, especially the scenes where the robot has made infinite duplicates of himself. There's just something less awe-inspiring about an action scene knowing that it was pieced together by a computer geeks in a dark room, instead of by real blood-and-guts guys busting each others' chops.
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