The most amusing thing I've seen so far (considering I've actually watched the highest grossing film India has ever produced).
What do you get when you fuse Terminator, Tron's Clu, and Superman?
You get Chuck Norris's rival, Rajnikanth!No, seriously! India's got a Chuck Norris equivalent, who causes Chuck Norris-esque jokes to spawn after each of his movies (he's also the highest paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan). Reason being: in
any movie he acts in, he's basically capable of kicking Superman's ass while chewing bubble gum, no matter what his character may be and no matter who or what his opponent is. His previous movie, Shivaji, was consider awesometastic: it's a story about this one businessman who tries to do good for the citizens of India, but is cornered and has everything taken away from him, his house, his lab, his money, even his watch, by corrupt politicians. He's left with a mere Rupee, with which he does the impossible and brings the nation's corruption to its knees.
When GOD is shocked he exclaims “Oh my Rajnikaant!”
Rajinikanth gave the Joker those scars.
Chuck Norris once met Rajinikanth. The result – He was reduced to a joke on the internet.
You can feel his eyes looking into your soul!A movie I watched today, called
Enthiran/Robot, starring Rajnikanth, initially a Tamil/Telugu movie but I watched it in Hindi dubbed. The movie was released last year.
The story follows a South Indian scientist on his quest to develop a perfect Artificial Intelligence (but knowingly discarding Isaac Asimov's Laws of Robotics) which could be used to assist soldiers in war, and indeed succeeds. However, because the android isn't capable of emotions it can't make rational decisions for itself and fulfills his task as specifically ordered by his master, often taking things to the extreme due to lack of common sense. This proved a fatal flaw in his system, to which the scientist strives to program emotions into this android, but it turns out it wasn't such a good idea after all when it develops the feelings of
Love.
There's a running joke around the movie which states that
if Rajnikanth were to feel like playing Grand Theft Auto, it's doomsday. But it's still a family/action film more than anything complicated like Ghost in the Shell, and the concepts were simple to understand for the majority and thus earned a fuck-load of viewers and success, becoming the highest grossing film EVER in India. I guarantee you that you'd either be impressed or highly amused (that is, ROFL), and thus I encourage you to watch. I do warn though:
1) You think Bollywood's crazy?
Kollywood fights and Science Fiction is crazy enough to make brains explode, even for Mid-Indians like me. The stunts often make Spiderman look lazy.
2) The movie's awesome, but it's almost 3 hours long and has quite a lot of songs/dances involved. You can, of course, skip them by simply getting a drink or merely fast-forward.
3) Like in GTA and Baccano, there's a LOT of killing involved and, although it's a family movie and has a "happy ending", those intellectual among us might feel a bit depressed by the end. Still, it wouldn't have been intriguing without all that.
Here's the trailer. And if you want in on the action, a (literally) crotch-crushing, rock-fisting, gut-shocking, roundhouse-kicking fight scene. It's got English Subs, so don't worry if you don't understand Tamil. I don't either. XDDD
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My personal favorite quotes from the movie.
1) Audience: Hey, Android! Do you believe in God?
Chitti: God is said to be The Creator. Dr Vaseegaran created to me, thus he is my God.
2) (Grabs a hundred rifles, aims at his enemies)
Chitti: Happy Diwali, folks! (Fires)
