![]() There is too much eagerness to give everything in the foreground the 3D treatment - far too many objects are thrown at us - but that enthusiasm is natural, like the first time someone discovers portrait mode on the iPhone. Shankar is all about the spectacle and India’s first film shot entirely in 3D doesn’t disappoint. Nothing, of course, measures up to the visuals. Rajinikanth returns as Chitti in 2.0, a sequel to Enthiran. As if Dr Vasigaran and Chitti weren’t enough, the scientist now has a fembot sidekick, NILA (which stands for Nice Intelligent Lovely Assistant) and Kumar, despite growing in size, can’t quite measure up. It is the right kind of response, for Kumar, despite seemingly insurmountable (and undefined) powers, never seems like a true threat once the Rajinikanths arrive on the scene. “Nice DP,” says Chitti when he comes face to face with the villain, unsubtly named Pakshiraja and played by Akshay Kumar. ![]() Tragically, the villain we get is a birdbrain: an ornithologist who, angered by the injustice we do to birds with the radiation from our cellular phone towers, uses thousands of disembodied cellphones to create an… angry bird. In this sequel 2.0, the battle is potentially fascinating: This film pits Rajinikanth versus the phones that give the actor all his power, via memes and ringtones and hashtags. The 2010 film Enthiran, also known as Robot, was essentially a Frankenstein film set in a world of artificial-intelligence, but what Shankar had truly cracked was a way forward for his mythically outsized leading man: Rajinikanth played bearded and mild-mannered scientist Vasigaran, while all the punches and punchlines were saved for Chitti the Robot, his clean-shaven and highly superhuman alter-ego. Director Shankar has unfettered visual imagination and unconventional thinking, but despite well-meaning ideas at the core of his stories, his cinema flirts with relevance instead of committing to it. ![]() I found one floated theory particularly interesting: what if this is a rival cellular phone company trying to establish itself? Considering the way a certain service provider has busted the kneecaps of the competition with savagely predatory pricing, I wondered if this film’s villain was a stand-in for one of India’s megacorps: Could 2.0 give us Rajini vs Ambani? Every cellphone in the city - from the ones used by fisherwomen to one being used to take a funeral-selfie - has flown from the hands of users and vanished into the sky, leaving everyone befuddled. Cast - Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy JacksonĬhennai is under attack. ![]()
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