Robot (film)



The most expensive and third highest grossing movie in Indian history, Robot (Endhiran, in the original Tamil) is an action comedy about the brilliant scientist Dr. Vaseegaran (played by Rajnikanth) who creates an Artificial Human named Chitti (also played by Rajinikanth, though the two characters look very distinct). Intending to offer Chitti to the Indian army, Dr. Vaseegaran first has to teach his creation how to function in society. Though he's superintelligent, Chitti takes things very literally, and he has zero knowledge of social situations. Still, he tries to be as kind and helpful as possible. Dr. Vaseegaran and his beautiful girlfriend Sana (played by Aishwarya Rai) try everything they can to make Chitti into a real person—although Sana's slowly getting annoyed at how much time her boyfriend spends at work, instead of with her.

Unfortunately, Dr. Vaseegaran's old tutor, Professor Bora, is stricken with a rather nasty case of jealousy and sets out to prove that Chitti is unsafe. Chitti encounters further backlash when rescuing people from a burning building, due to his inability to understand Tamil cultural rules.

Instead of abandoning Chitti, Dr. Vaseegaran decides to teach the android how to feel emotions and make moral judgements. Dr. Vaseegaran succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, but begins to regret it when Chitti falls in love with Sana. All the while, Professor Bora watches, ready to exploit the tension and frustration between the three.

It Gets Worse. It also gets really, really awesome. See for yourself!

Robot pulls out all the stops when it comes to action, displaying a fantastic level of visual creativity. The film also has by far the most hilarious and dynamic special effects to ever come out of Bollywood.

"Chitti: Don't come closer. I will shoot you. Dude in car: Stop acting like a child."
 * A.I. Is a Crapshoot:
 * Artificial Human: Chitti.
 * Badass Automaton
 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment: A couple of the songs, particularly the one in front of a replica of Macchu Picchu.
 * Blunt Metaphors Trauma: Chitti has this in spades.
 * Bollywood
 * Bollywood Hacking
 * Cheaters Never Prosper:
 * Chef of Iron: Literally.
 * Conspicuous CG
 * Do-Anything Robot
 * Ear Worm: Boom, boom. Robo-dah. Robo-dah. Robo... Zoom, zoom. Robo-dah. Robo-dah.
 * Finger Gun/Finger Firearms/This Banana Is Armed:
 * Finger Gun/Finger Firearms/This Banana Is Armed:


 * Gone Horribly Right:
 * Hive Mind: How the many versions of Chitti communicate.
 * Hubris: A theme that's brought up a few times.
 * Humans Are the Real Monsters: The movie touches on this as well.
 * Instant Expert: Chitti, thanks to Dr. Vaseegaran installing all kinds of information in his brain.
 * "I Want" Song
 * Laser-Guided Karma: Professor Bora.
 * Lightning Can Do Anything: Dr. Vaseegaran tries and tries to teach Chitti about emotions. It doesn't seem to take until Chitti is struck by a bolt of lightning.
 * Literal-Minded: Chitti.
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
 * Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Happy Diwali [Festival of Lights], folks!" *opens fire with fifty guns*
 * Rule of Cool: What makes the action scenes possible.
 * Ridiculously Human Robot: Chitti, halfway through the movie.
 * Scaled Up:
 * Selective Magnetism
 * Serial Escalation: The action scenes. How much?
 * Shout-Out: To Isaac Asimov and his Three Laws of Robotics, and many, many ShoutOuts to the Terminator movies. Oh, and one of the more primitive robots is off-handedly referred to as R-2.
 * The Musical: Of course. It's Bollywood.
 * We Have Reserves:
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?
 * William Telling: With a revolver.
 * Your Head Asplode:
 * Your Head Asplode: