Robo Review

Superstar Rajnikanth and the Supreme director Shanker has shown us the taste of success with Sivaji…and Now they are back with a bang…Robo, the movie is much talked about for its whopping budget and for depicting next-gen robot as the lead and not the least for having our Gorgeous Ex Miss World Aishwarya Rai!!

Let’s check out the how Robo went on!!

Plot: Vasikaran (Rajni) creates an Extra ordinary Robo (named as Chitti) with speed of 1Thz and memory of 1 Zetta bytes. All goes fine, until Robo turns into humanoid…and loves deeply Sana…the scientists beautiful girlfriend…

Things go out of control when an evil scientist manipulates the Robo…resulting in havoc and tons of troubles…

Rajni is everything:

Rajni the giant icon of South Indian cinema is the one who made the vision of his director come true. He donned 3 roles if you consider different shades of Robo as 2 individual roles. Director like the scientist is more partial to his creation Robo. While the role of scientist is made very ordinary, two different get ups of Robo are designed extremely well. Rajni grows on us as chitti in the first half. You will simply love his innocence and giggle for his funny deeds. And in contrast Rajni excelled as wicked Robo where he rebels against his own master for his love. Rajni is exceptionally great in this role…and proved himself a great villain as good as the hero.

Aishwarya Rai …a true synonym of beauty…is simply superb in all the costumes. She had a crucial role to play...And she has done it with élan. Her chemistry with Robo out beats her love with the scientist. She is the best choice for the movie and Shanker portrayed her more beautiful in songs…

Mesmerizing Visuals…!!

Sky is limit for the Robo…If Superstar as human could go beyond our imagination while beating up the goons…Don’t ever think of what a Rajni can perform as Robot.

He beats up goons chasing a running train...rescues people in fire and much more just in the first half. And in second half he multiplies himself in hundreds and forms gigantic forms…

The climax I can say is spellbound with Robo taking form of Transformer and Anaconda just to name few…It’s no doubt visually best ever climax . Here’s a salute to the technicians (VFX, Sound design, cinematography…) for making it believable within the budget constraints they had. Remember Hollywood flicks are made with 100 times better budgets!!

Shanker the great And Rahman scores good

Call him Indian James Cameroon …no offense for bringing up the next-gen story and made it a visual treat…especially the climax.

Songs are good…and are picturised elegantly. Back ground score is good enough. Locations are the assets for the songs.”Neutron electron” and "Kilimanjaro…" and Visual grandeur is seen in “Harima...Harima “and “Inumulo...”

Movie flows very smoothly in first half and you will love it for sure. Shanker did not waste much of screen time as in Sivaji and he has built up the love between the Robo and Aish in believable way. But he took so many cinematic liberties in second half. There were couple of dull moments…and unnecessary scenes…But Climax makes up for it…you feel satisfied…

Few things that would have been better…

Movies tempo falls flat in the later half for a while and everything seems louder from then…especially the car chase, mosquito episode…and pre Kilimanjaro song is dull…

While elevating the Robo, the other character of Rajni is diminished lot…He should have been least heroic!!

Though songs were nice…I still feel something missing that lacks the connection with audience…

Final Say

At the end of the day…Robo took its cinematic liberties and ended up well in good manner...

Best parts are first half and Climax. Kids will love it for sure…and the climax is the one that is the best in Indian screen so far…

Can anyone afford to miss RajniKanth, Aishwarya Rai and Shanker together.

Lessen your expectations and watch it as a good effort…I don’t say it is way good than Bharateeyudu…but it is on par with Sivaji

Rating

3.75/5 Yes this rating I feel is far less for the visual effects…and but is good enough to keep lower the expectations…Do watch it…