Well, after the huge hype created for Endhiran, me and my wife went for the movie at Alamanda Putrajaya yesterday noon.

Had some technical difficulties with my brain as I bought the ticket for 11.25am via GSC online but the next day thought the movie starts at 11.45am. Went to the theater a bit late at 11.33am. Hopefully we did not miss anything as it was showing the title credits or whatever you call it when we went in.

Ok, now about the movie. This movie has the simplest intro of Superstar Rajinikanth in decades...You'll know what I meant when you watch the movie yourself.

Overall I enjoyed Rajinikanth's performance. He was simply awesome as Dr Vaseegaran, Chitti and Chitti 2.0 (my favourite of them all)

Dr Vaseegaran

Rajinikanth looks smart and looks totally handsome. He delivers the character perfectly. Rajini's expression as the scientist  is good compared to his other movies. One example is during the conference when Chitti is asked if God exists? Rajini's reaction when Chitti gave the answer really gave the impact that it should. His coming timing is always perfect as we already know. No comments on that.Overall, Rajiikanth's performance as Dr Vaseegaran is sans any Superstar's style and mannerism. Credits should go 100% to Director Shankar.

Chitti

Rajinikanth as the Chitti  is totally loveable with his innocence and again his coming timing is perfect. Chitti is super intelligent and all the scene involving the Robot is really enjoyable.The dialogues during the arguments that occurs between Dr. Vasee and Chitti after Chitti confesses its love to Sana is very well constructed. Unfortunately, we can clearly see that it's Rajini's double during the fight scene in the train and during Chitti's Dance Showcase. But, that is totally forgivable. :P

Chitti 2.0

Yeah, Rajini is totally menacing as Chitti 2.0. His performance is superb. After years, Rajinikanth has performed a superb villainous role. It must have been a piece of cake for Rajini to do such a role as that is how he started his career during those days..In fact, this was one of the main reason why I went to see the movie on the second day itself. I love to see Rajini as a villain. Though, Rajinikanth looked a bit old as Chitti 2.0.

Sana (Aishwarya Rai)

Ahhh....Aishwarya.. what to comment about her?? For a commercial movie, she delivers the required level of acting.  She looked gorgeous throughout the movie...

Shankar

This is the man who made it all possible. A 10 years old story finally came to life thanks to SUN Pictures. This fellow knows the nuances of commercial cinema and took it to a higher level. Difficult for others to beat this but of course, in future more sci-fi Tamil movies will be pouring in all because of this "first of its kind movie".

AR Rahman

His music is already a chart buster everywhere in the world but my humble opinion is the background score could have been better. After watching his performance in Raavanan which was totally awesome, I was a little disappointed with the background score.Well, only a little... Anyway, ARR rocks!!

Danny Denzongpa

He fits perfectly as a corrupt scientist. Great acting from this fellow.

CGI

For a Indian movie, the CGI is superb, minus a few places here and there. Which of course can be ignored...The CGI works at the temple is one of the highlights. I was totally impressed with the CGI during 30-40 minutes before the end of the movie. The snake, gun firing ball, the drill and of course the surprise robot...all of it was awesome!
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! dot!

Other Castings

Santhanam and Karunas provide adequate comedy provided their limited time onscreen.
So does all the other casts in the movie.

Conclusion

Overall, if you want to experience the grandness\richness\greatness of the movie and the awesome acting by Rajinikanth watch it in the theater!
One of a kind movie!
Now, I'm thinking when will I go for the second show??? Anyone care to join me?

Latest Update (05/10/10)

My above article on Endhiran is published on Behindwoods.com!! Do check it out :

http://www.behindwoods.com/features/visitors-1/endhiran-malaysia-05-10-10.html

Vikna