History Film / Robot

* EvilMakeover: [[spoiler:Evil!Chitti, of course.]]

->'''Chitti''': Don't come closer. I will shoot you.
->'''Dude in car''': Stop acting like a child.
->[[spoiler: '''BANG''']]

* TheMusical: Of course. It's Bollywood.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A couple of the songs, particularly the one in front of a replica of Macchu Picchu.

* EarWorm: Boom, boom. Robo-dah. Robo-dah. Robo... Zoom, zoom. Robo-dah. Robo-dah.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome

Unfortunately, Dr. Vaseegaran's old tutor, Professor Bora, is stricken with a rather nasty case of jealousy and sets out to prove that Chitti is unsafe. Chitti encounters further backlash when rescuing people from a burning building, due to his inability to understand Tamil cultural rules.

!! TV tropes include

* HumansAreBastards: The movie touches on this as well.

* ShoutOut: To IsaacAsimov and his Three Laws of Robotics, and many, ''[[ReferenceOverdosed many]]'' [[ShoutOut ShoutOuts]] to the ''{{Terminator}}'' movies. Oh, and one of the more primitive robots is off-handedly referred to as [[StarWars R-2]].

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* BeyondTheImpossible: The action scenes. How impossible? [[spoiler: After evil!Chitti makes duplicates of himself, he ends up having an entire army of totally obedient and nearly indestructible minions. At the final confrontation, they magnetize and come together to form a giant sphere of bullet-flinging death! Then they form a spinning column that trashes tanks and infantry alike! In the best tradition of multi-stage level bosses, they then form a giant snake that eats cars! But even this isn't enough, and the finale sees them take the form of a giant Chitti made out of hundreds of normal-sized Chittis. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yysbbPStfWw It has to be seen to be believed.]]]]

The most expensive and third highest grossing movie in Indian history, ''Robot'' (''Endhiran'', in the original Tamil) is an action comedy about the brilliant scientist Dr. Vaseegaran (played by Rajnikanth) who creates an ArtificialHuman named Chitti (also played by Rajinikanth, though the two characters look very distinct). Intending to offer Chitti to the Indian army, Dr. Vaseegaran first has to teach his creation how to function in society. Though he's superintelligent, Chitti takes things very literally, and he has zero knowledge of social situations. Still, he tries to be as kind and helpful as possible. Dr. Vaseegaran and his beautiful girlfriend Sana (played by AishwaryaRai) try everything they can to make Chitti into a real person -- although Sana's slowly getting annoying at how much time her boyfriend spends at work, instead of with her.

The most expensive and third highest grossing movie in Indian history, ''Robot'' (''Endhiran'', in the original Tamil) is an action comedy about the brilliant scientist Dr. Vaseegaran (played by Rajnikanth) who creates an ArtificialHuman named Chitti (also played by Rajinikanth, though the two characters look quite distinct). Intending to offer Chitti to the Indian army, Dr. Vaseegaran first has to teach his creation how to function in society. Though superintelligent, Chitti takes things very literally, and has zero knowledge of social situations. Still, he tries to be as kind and helpful as possible.

Unfortunately, Dr. Vaseegaran's old tutor, Professor Bora, is stricken with a rather nasty case of jealousy. At Chitti's test demonstration before the AIRD, Professor Bora confuses Chitti by giving him a rapid series of confusing and meaningless orders. Bora finishes by directing to Chitti to kill Vaseegaran, only to stop the android at the last moment. This, says Bora, proves that Chitti is unsafe. Chitti encounters further backlash when rescuing people from a burning building, due to his inability to understand Tamil cultural rules.

Instead of abandoning Chitti, Dr. Vaseegaran decides to teach the android how to feel emotions and make moral judgements. Dr. Vaseegaran succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, but begins to regret it when Chitti falls in love with his girlfriend, the beautiful Sana (played by the beautiful AishwaryaRai). This leads to increasing tension between the creator and his creation. All the while, Professor Bora watches, ready to exploit the tensions.

Robot pulls out all the stops when it comes to action, displaying a fantastic level of visual creativity. The film also has ''by far'' the most hilarious and dynamic special effects to ever come out of Bollywood.

* LighningCanDoAnything: Dr. Vaseegaran tries and tries to teach Chitti about emotions. It doesn't seem to take until Chitti is struck by a bolt of lightning.

* FingerGun/FingerFirearm/ThisBananaIsArmed: '''Chitti''': Don't come closer. I will shoot you. '''Dude in car''': Stop acting like a child. '''BANG'''.

* DeusExMachina: Dr. Vaseegaran tries and tries to teach Chitti about emotions. It doesn't seem to take until [[spoiler: Chitti is struck by a bolt of lightning.]]
** [[spoiler: LightningCanDoAnything]]

ItGetsWorse. It also gets awesome. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNXHveyzUvY See for yourself!]]

Unfortunately, Dr. Vaseegaran's old tutor, Professor Bora, is stricken with a rather nasty case of jealousy. At Chitti's test demonstration before the AIRD, Professor Bora confuses Chitti by giving him a rapid series of confusing and meaningless orders. Bora finishes by directing to Chitti to kill Vaseegaran, only to stop the android at the last moment. This, says Bora, proves that Chitti is unsafe. Chitti encounters further mishaps when rescuing people from a burning building, due to his inability to understand cultural rules.

The most expensive and third highest grossing movie in Indian history, ''Robot'' (''Endhiran'', in the original Tamil) is an action comedy about the brilliant scientist Dr. Vaseegaran (played by Rajnikanth) who creates an ArtificialHuman named Chitti (also played by Rajinikanth, though the two characters look quite distinct). Intending to offer Chitti to the Indian army, Dr. Vaseegaran first has to teach his creation how to function in society. Though superintelligent, Chitti takes things very literally. For instance, when a cop suggests that Chitti "give him a cut" (a bribe), Chitti asks where. The cop indicates his hand, and Chitti obligingly grabs a nearby knife and cuts the guy.

* TheMusical: It's one of these.