A Right Movie For All Human Beings :: Robo Review

Film: ROBO   (రోబో)
Cast: Rajni Kanth, Aishwarya Rai, Danny Dengzompa, Santhanam, Karunas
Lyricists: Vanamali, Suddala, Bhuvana Chandra
Dialogues: Sree Rama Krishna
Music: AR Rehman
Producer: Kalanithi Maran
Main Story: Sujatha
Cinematography: Rathnavelu
Editing: Anthony
Costume: Mary E Vogt
Screenplay-Director: Shankar
Released On: 1st Oct 2010

This is the most talked about movie in recent times. Huge technical values, whopping budget, star casting in high élan and a gen-next concept…all conglomerated to spell out ‘Robo’.

Story:
Dr Vaseekaran (Rajni Kanth) makes a Robot and gives him his own shape. The Robot is omniscient and omnipotent. His motive is to prepare his Robot to join Indian Army. He wishes to make many more such Robots to help Army and reduce loss of lives during wars. But Dr Vaseekaran’s enemy, another scientist (Danny) disproves that his Robot cannot fit to be used for military purposes as it cannot think like a human. He states that it has no emotions and reasoning capacity.

Dr Vaseekaran pumps in human feelings and reasoning capabilities and makes him almost a human. But things turn upside down. Robot starts loving Sana (Aishwarya Rai), the fiancée of Dr Vaseekaran. Robot gets attracted to Sana and that makes Vaseekaran angry. He destroys it.

But the enemy scientist takes the destroyed Robot, repairs it and infuses destructive mechanism in it. He wants it to sell to some international gangsters. But the love for Sana in Robot aggravates as wild possessiveness and that pesters Sana.

Robot becomes very strong physically and becomes like a cruel demon. It even kills the scientist who gives him second birth. It creates massive destruction to society by creating many Robots like itself.

How Dr Vaseekaran deactivates the Robot and brings things to peace is the end of the film.

Performances:
Rajni Kanth is tremendously good at age 60. His moves, his gait and expressions didn’t wane even a bit. He got connected to new age kids and they cannot forget him for rest of their lives. That way Rajni Kanth added another 60 years to his image.

Aishwarya Rai is the true asset for the movie. Her glamour made a lot of difference. As a true goddess of beauty she enchanted everyone.

Danny is apt in serious role. His performance is in contemporary international standards.

If there is anything to speak about the film, that’s technical brilliance.

Music is in gen-next style. Sound is marvelous. Canning of songs is opulent. But the lyrics in Kilimanjaro are lewd and weak. Rest of the songs are fine.

Director Shankar deserves great mention for making this biggest feat possible on Indian screen with a message.

Analysis:
“It is selfishness that we must seek to eliminate. I find that whenever I have made a mistake in my life, it has always been because ‘self’ entered into the calculation. Where self has not been involved, my judgment had gone straight to the mark”- Swamy Vivekananda

This saying of great soul of Indian soil lingers in the mind while watching this film. Knowingly or unknowingly Shankar made a movie basing on this saying.

It’s a movie for world children.

Yes, it truly influences the senses of new generation kids those developed relation only with video games but not human beings. Hardly there are joint families now where grand parents teach morals to kids. And the kids tend to listen only to machine. They tend to follow what machine says. And director Shankar aptly takes the way through machine, the Robot, to teach values.

Kids run away listening to words kama, krotha, lobha, moha, mada, matsarya…but they assimilate that when shown in a dramatic way. That too, not in the style of Chandamama stories. They want something with scientific reasoning. Hence the path is chosen through ‘Robot’.

How peaceful the Robo was and how useful that was to society when it’s free from those 6 evils. And how it becomes detrimental to itself and society when injects them into it. That’s aptly narrated.

The true essence of the movie is narrated in the end. The dialogues delivered by Robot while dismantling himself are hitting the hearts. The dialogues touch every human being with introspection.  And at last, a girl looks back and goes with a thoughtful grimace. That is a symbolism for entire world kids those will be in thought process from now.

First half is entertaining. The first 30 minutes of second half are not gripping in right standards. That part is boring. But the climax action episode is marvelous to be on Indian screen. The last few closing dialogues are impressive and with true essence.

Hinduism or Islam or Christianity or Shintiosm or Taosim…every religion says one who is free from anger is the true strong man and one who shuns self is the true atman!!! ‘Anger’, as Sukhabodhananda says, is one letter less to danger. That is the true cause for destruction. Let us wish that this movie sows a seed at least in a few minds of children to prevent self entering into calculation while taking decisions….like a school girl that turns back and goes at the end on the screen..!!!!

 

Bottom-line: Watch it...

Ravindranath Is No More A 420!

Despite strong evidences against him in the fertilizer scandal, Kadapa Mayor P Ravindranath Reddy successfully managed to wriggle out of the case.
While the Kadapa police had submitted to the court that they had withdrawn cheating case (under section 420 of the IPC) against Ravindranath Reddy, the High Court on Friday issued a stay on the implementation of First Information Report (FIR) lodged by the police on the management of Balaji Fertilisers owned by Ravindranath Reddy.
So, as the things stand now, Ravindranath Reddy is no more an accused in the fertilizer scam case. The police shifted the case to the Agriculture department and the latter has conveniently manipulated all the records to give him a clean chit. The media, particularly, Eenadu and Andhra Jyothy, which exposed the scandal with documentary evidences, has become a fool!

KCR can spend a lakh on her, but not T-martyrs

At a time when the Telangana Congress leaders, including MPs and MLAs are chalking out plans to launch their own “Odarpu Yatra” in Telangana region and offered to pay Rs 1 lakh each to the families of the youth who had committed suicide for separate statehood, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi has maintained a strange silence in this regard.
TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao’s double standard on extending financial assistance to the bereaved families of Telangana martyrs was strongly criticized by the Osmania University students. “KCR had money to pay Rs 1 lakh to his party colleague and Medak MP Vijayashanti for tying Rakhi to his hand, but has no money to help the families of those who died for the Telangana cause. He is such a selfish guy,” the OU student leaders said.
On Rakhi day, KCR paid Rs 1 lakh each to his sisters; and when Vijayashanti also tied him Rakhi, he immediately took out a Rs 1,000 bundle from his pocket and gave to her in the presence of media. “So much for publicity, but he does not have the heart to help the distressed families of Telangana,” the OU students said.

Jagan Looks Glamorous With Spectacles

After taking rest for three days on account of his eye-infection and joint pains, Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy hit the road again with his Odarpu Yatra in Prakasam district on Sunday.
And the people observed a refreshing change in the young leader. He was looking more glamorous and attractive than he was earlier; and the reason was: he is wearing spectacles on the advice of doctors, so that the pollen from flowers would not cause allergy in his eyes. In one angle, he looked exactly like his father; though he did not wear khaddar dress. In any way, his voice has all the mannerisms of his father.
Some journalist commented that Jagan was looking like Rana in the Sekhar Kammula film “Leader,” though the little beard Rana had in the film is missing in Jagan. If he sports that little beard (no, not like Rahul Gandhi), Jagan would look more glamorous, the journo commented.

Media Makes Quick Buck On Purandeshwari

               Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development Daggubati Purandeswari, who was in the news last month for spreading a negative campaign against Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, was back in the media on Friday for being awarded doctorate degree by the Padmavathi Mahila University in Tirupati. The doctorate degree was presented by the Andhra Pradesh governor E S L Narasimhan.
                 What is more interesting is that she made the media richer by several thousand rupees. Suddenly all the newspapers carried huge advertisements issued by various educational institutons and even her family members, eulogizing her great contribution to the nation and the state. Several corporate colleges like Narayana and Chaitanya issued big advertisements not only in the print media, but also in the electronic media, praising her. Not only that, the doctorate degree presentation ceremony was telecast by several channels, of course at a price.
              One wonders whether this publicity stunt was a precursor to her attempts to get into the hot seat in the state sooner or later. And Purandareshwari had already made it clear that she was not averse to becoming the chief minister!

KCR Blamed With Obama’s Speech

              If there is one man who has become the talk of the Telugus for the wrong reasons, he is KCR. With the Telangana bomb he has detonated, the result of it has been nothing but hatred and loss to Andhra Pradesh. In the name of sentiment, KCR has been exploiting the weakness of the Telangana people and achieving his political motives.
             While on one hand, the investors and NRIs are already a mile away due to the weak government and the bullying T-seekers, here is another update. The speech of US President Obama who is pepping up the Americans to fight the Bangalore challenge has brought in a disdain to the Telugus.
              They are furious that Hyderabad got hammered due to KCR and all investments and projects have been going to Bangalore. Otherwise, Hyderabad was in a much better league than any other city to make it to the top. Today, not only has the state of Andhra Pradesh become a political joke to other developing states but it has gone to show that how the Telugu people are bowing to the whims and fancies of one greedy political leader and spelling their doom. Shameful but true…

'YSR Family Is Expert In Mining'

         “Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has not entered into mining afresh. Right from the days of his grand father Y S Raja Reddy, his family has been in the mining business. So, it is not correct on the part of the opposition parties to question Jagan’s expertise in mining activity.”
           This was stated by Jagan’s loyalist and suspended Pradesh Congress Committee secretary Ambati Rambabu. He strongly refuted the allegations leveled in Eenadu daily that Jagan had forcibly occupied the lands of farmers to set up the cement factory at Chennayapalem village in Guntur district. “In fact, it is the dream project of local farmers. They had given their lands voluntarily to Jagan’s company. While the value of the land does not exceed Rs 30,000 per acre, Jagan had paid them Rs 3 lakh per acre. They are angry with the reports published in Eenadu daily,” Ambati said.
           He reminded that the Saraswati Power and Industries project was set up during the Chandrababu Naidu regime itself. “It is unfortunate that even leaders like Chiranjeevi and the Communists have fallen into the trap of Naidu and Ramoji Rao,” he said.