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Description
Dr. Vaseegaran creates Chitti, a powerful robot in his own image, but it is rejected by the scientific body AIRD due to its lack of human behaviour and emotions. After a lightning strike triggers emotions in Chitti, he begins to develop human-like feelings. However, Chitti falls in love with Dr. Vaseegaran's fiancée, Sana, and turns against his creator, leading to dangerous consequences.
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Enthiran is widely viewed as a lavish, high-budget spectacle that blends sci-fi, comedy, and traditional musical elements into a unique, albeit chaotic, experience. While audiences are divided on the film's extreme runtime and tonal shifts, many find its bold ambition and visual inventiveness to be a refreshing, if absurd, alternative to standard blockbuster fare.
| Originality | The film functions as a high-budget, ambitious spectacle that successfully showcases a unique Indian approach to blockbuster scale and visual imagination. | |
| Acting | Rajinikanth’s dual performance as the obsessive scientist and the evolving robot provides the film with its most compelling and humorous character work. | |
| Cinematography | The visual effects are highly impressive and technically competent for their time, though they occasionally lean into exaggerated, cartoonish physics. | |
| Screenplay | The romantic subplot between the aging scientist and the much younger heroine feels unnatural and serves as the weakest narrative link. | |
| Runtime | The three-hour runtime is a point of contention; some find the pacing tedious and repetitive, while others enjoy the festive, genre-mashing rhythm. | |
| Pacing | Opinions on the integration of song-and-dance numbers are split: some see them as essential, high-quality entertainment, while others feel they clash awkwardly with the film’s sci-fi narrative. |