ENDHIRAN : GUESSING THE GAME

I am an avid reader of your website and thanks to you, even though I am away from home, I feel closer to K-Town. Endhiran images and trailers are fantabulous and keep churning out any updates about our Thalaivars arrival on screen.

Looking at the trailer, I wanted to guess what would be the story line. Like with any Shankar movie, there has to be a message, the message of this movie might be "Science & Technology can also be Evil". The good, bad and the gray parts of the advancements in robotics and in general technology would be brought out by the battle between, the creator and his creation, i.e. Vaseegaran the scientist and Chitti the robot. A sci-fi take on the concept of Frankenstein is my guess for the message/plot of the movie.

First analyzing the songs:

Puthiya Manidha, Kilimanjaro, Kadhal Anukkal would be for Vaseegaran Irumbile Oru Idhayam, Arima Arima, Boom Boom Robot would be for Chitti.

First Half

A brief narration about Vaseegaran’s lab, their work, some technology briefs, conferences etc and some information on their upcoming ground breaking robot, the Chitti. The creation of Chitti
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and Vaseegaran’s scientific prowess being brought out through Puthiya Manidha song. Some brief comic bits of Santhanam, Karunas and just like Sivaji probably, parents would be insisting on Rajini to get married etc. Aishwarya might be the daughter of villain (hope Shankar does not follow this cliché). Danny Denzongpa might need a robot of immense power to carry out some evil. It might be related to technological warfare, futuristic national security, terrorism issues etc. My guess is that Danny and Vaseegaran might not be from rival camps, they might be friends and seeing Chitti, Danny might opt to go for something evil. In comes Ash and some Thalaivar glorifying romantic scenes between them. Bits and pieces of Sivaji, some Basha, Padayappa material for romance. Chitti is half functional and some trial runs to tests its capability. Chitti goes out of control and takes things in its own hands to do good things (trailer where Chitti saves a kid etc). Vaseegaran might decide it is not advisable for Chitti to roam like some metallic piece and decides to give a human face and appearance and as expected it would be Rajini’s face. So this cool, funky, trendy Chitti the robot is superhuman yet looks human. The first half might end with Chitti Chitti robot song. After listening to the song, one can clearly understand that Chitti is very popular in society and he is the darling of the masses etc. This might be another opening song kind of thing for the Chitti the final version of the robot, which has the facial charisma, style of our Rajini. Chitti develops emotions for Ash and Irumbile song might also feature in first half. This emotional desire might be a turning point to tweak Chitti in transitioning into something like "Beauty and the Beast" kind of warfare.

Second Half

Some mole in Rajini's camp or Danny himself tries to corrupt Chitti’s logic and make it dysfunctional. Chitti goes haywire and tries to test its own might, takes law in its own hand for some negative purposes. Our long desire to see Rajini in grey shades would definitely be fulfilled in the second half. Some emotional confrontation between Vaseegaran, Chitti and Aishwarya. Chitti relishes his larger than life image, Arima Arima song would probably come. Aishwarya probably decides to give Vaseegaran an ultimatum regarding Chitti (referring to trailer, Ash says she would never try to see him again). A brief separation followed by some compromises and peppy, passionate Kilimanjaro number. The last part of the movie would be man Vs machine kind of warfare. Stunts should be mind blowing and technological battle with hifi robots, instrumental gadgets, sets etc would be bought out in true Hollywood fashion. The stunts and CG work should be the highlight in the last 40 minutes or so. Man Vs Man (Danny Vs Vaseegaran), Machine Vs Machine (Chitti Vs Similar Robots), should be the culminating point of the view. Technology can be evil if not used the right way and some Anniyan kind of societal message related to what the developed countries are doing with technological warfare and its drastic consequences would also feature. Rajini probably decides to shelve Project Chitti as he fears consequences might be drastic if misused and tries to preach the good old ways of peace, tolerance and humanitarian concerns alone would be better ways to save the world , rather than going behind technology full fledged.

Thanks and Regards
Sesha
Chicago
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