The Indian Terminator: Crazy Action from Robot (Enthiran, 2010)
Just a great short! Packing so many effects and so much imagination into 10 minutes is mind-blowing! And now there’s an Indian Terminator too – I can’t even imagine what’s next :-)
Enthiran (Robot), 2010
It isn’t actually a standalone clip but a cut of scenes from the 2010 Indian film Robot. Below is one of the film’s main fights from the official Sun NXT YouTube channel.
About the film
The original title is Enthiran (Tamil for “robot”); the Hindi version was released as Robot. It premiered on October 1, 2010, directed by S. Shankar. Superstar Rajinikanth plays two roles: the scientist Vaseegaran and Chitti, the robot he builds. Aishwarya Rai plays Sana, the scientist’s girlfriend.
The project took almost ten years to prepare, and filming lasted about two years. The budget was 1.32–1.62 billion rupees (roughly $29–36 million at 2010 exchange rates), and at the time of release Robot was the most expensive Indian film ever made. The creators crammed everything into it: sci-fi, action, romance and comedy.
Why it’s awesome
One reader summed it up well: the budget is clearly not Hollywood-level, but the filmmakers have no brakes at all, and the variety of fight scenes is stunning. There are excesses and zero logic, but the fights turned out genuinely entertaining and you want to watch them – isn’t that what matters most? You watch it thinking what a great job the Indian filmmakers did, rather than laughing at them.
I completely agree with him – the clip is a blast.