History Film / Robot

* SurpassedTheTeacher: One of the main reasons for all the drama. Bohra's former student is able to create the world's most advanced robot, while Bohra's robots can't even obey simple commands despite being programmed with 800,000 lines. [[spoiler:Bohra ultimately gets his hands on Chitti's neural schema and is able to create a destruction program for the robot, only for evil Chitti to kill him.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Bora constantly puts down Vasigaran for designing a robot for violent purposes... [[spoiler:while secretly building robots to work in terrorist groups.]]
* HypocriteHasAPoint: Professor Bora rejects Chitti's evaluation. Although he does it out of envy towards Vasigaran, he does bring up valid points, stating that the robot's lack of moral discretion can endanger human lives. Then again, this is coming from a scientist who [[spoiler:is secretly building robots designed for terrorism.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Bora realising [[spoiler:evil!Chitti has built his own army. He shouldn't have waited till then, of course...]]

* PlugPlayTechnology: Chitti can recharge from home power lines and car batteries, and stream his vision to [=TVs=] using wifi... and somehow needs to carry a handphone seperately.

** "I am Chitti. Speed 1 terahertz. Memory 1 zettabyte." This one is even repeated during Chitti's {{cameo}} in ''RA One''!

* UncannyValley: {{Invoked}} to distinguish Chitti from Vaseegaran, [[ActingForTwo as they are both played by the same guy.]]

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* PlugAndPlayTechnology: Chitti can recharge from home power lines and car batteries, and stream his vision to [=TVs=] using wifi... and somehow needs to carry a handphone seperately.

* MoralDissonance: Dr. Vaseegaran [[spoiler: proceeds to brutally "dismantle" Chitti, despite his pleas to be allowed to live, and no one sees anything wrong with it. In fact, he's the only one who seems to regret it and even then he states, it's only because he saw him as his greatest breakthrough. [[DesignatedHero That's our hero, folks]]. What might make this worse is that he had been struck by lightning earlier and was behaving more human after this, possibly suggesting that a deity had given him life.]]

* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler:Evil!Chitti, complete with SkunkStripe and GoNagaiSideburns.]]

* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler:Zigzagged. Vaseegaran sends viruses into the evil!Chitti army by hacking just one of them. It doesn't quite take, until Vaseegaran finds evil!Chitti and takes out Bora's red chip, which does the trick.]]

* EvilMakeover: [[spoiler:Evil!Chitti, complete with SkunkStripe and GoNagaiSideburns.]]

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* ArtificialHuman: Chitti.
* AutoTune: Done with some of the musical numbers, fitting the technological motif.
* BadassLongcoat: [[spoiler:How evil!Chitti is distinguished from his {{Mooks}}.]]
* BallisticDiscount

* BluffTheImpostor: Invoked. Vaseegaran manages to masquerade as an evil!Chitti {{Mook}}.
* BluntMetaphorsTrauma: Chitti has this in spades.
* UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}
* [[HollywoodHacking Bollywood Hacking]]
* BollywoodNerd: Dr. Vaseegaran, Professor Bora, and ThoseTwoGuys.

* CatchPhrase: "Dot."

* ChekhovsGun: What appears to be a BigLippedAlligatorMoment when [[spoiler:Chitti negotiates with mosquitoes ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer no, really]]) leads to him learning Sana's blood type, which comes up later.]]

* ChekhovsSkill: Chitti's SelectiveMagnetism [[spoiler:is the entire basis of his army's OneWingedAngel tactic.]]

* ChefOfIron: ''Literally''.
* ConspicuousCG
* CoolShades
* DoAnythingRobot
* EinsteinHair: Working on Chitti turned Vaseegaran into ''a mess''.

* {{Finger Gun}}/{{Finger Firearms}}/{{This Banana Is Armed}}:

** The FingerGun mentioned above? It doesn't fire from the pointer finger, oddly enough...
*** Many Indians actually do point with their middle fingers. The first example is still FlippingTheBird, however.

* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Bora's FamilyUnfriendlyDeath.]]
* HiveMind: How the many versions of Chitti communicate.
* {{Hubris}}: A theme that's brought up a few times.
* HumansAreBastards: The movie touches on this as well.
* InstantExpert: Chitti, thanks to Dr. Vaseegaran installing all kinds of information in his brain.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: The actor playing Dr. Bora is an Indian man from an ethnic group closely related to the people of Nepal, which confuses some westerners who think he looks "Chinese" instead of their idea of "Indian."
** He is from the Bhutia community which descended from the Tibetan people.
* IWantSong

* LargeHam: [[spoiler:Evil!Chitti.]]

* LiteralMinded: Chitti.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: A mild case at first. [[spoiler: Then Bora steps in...]]
* MesACrowd

* MoreDakka: Evil!Chitti is holding 50 rifles at once. Your argument is invalid.
** Actually justified with [[spoiler:the evil!Chitti Ball-O-Death, since every {{Mook}} has one rifle.]]

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The evil!Chitti army [[spoiler:in their cobra form.]]
* RuleOfCool: What makes the action scenes possible.

* RulesLawyer: Dr. Vaseegaran manages to get Sana back early in the movie by being one of these.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Chitti, halfway through the movie.

* SelectiveMagnetism

* TheStoic: Vaseegaran. If it wasn't for the Kilimanjaro song, you couldn't even ''tell'' this was good ol' Rajnikanth.
* TechnologyPorn: The opening has enough for one movie... and then the rest of the movie starts.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Siva and Ravi, Dr. Vaseegaran's assistants.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Vaseegaran's parents aren't as freaked at seeing Chitti as you'd expect.

* WilliamTelling: With a ''revolver''.

* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler: Professor Bora's fate, when he tries to stop Chitti from going rogue.]]

It's successs spawned a sequel known as Film/{{Robot2.0}} which was released in November 29, 2018, 8 years after the original was released.

It's successs spawned a sequel known as Film/{{2.0Film2018}} which was released in November 29, 2018, 8 years after the original was released.

It's successs spawned a sequel known as Film/{{2.0Film}} which was released in November 29, 2018, 8 years after the original was released.

It's successs spawned a sequel known as Film/{{2.0}} which was released in November 29, 2018, 8 years after the original was released.

Notable for being the only collaboration between monster-meister Creator/StanWinston (whose most beloved creations include Film/TheTerminator and The [[Film/{{Aliens}} Alien Queen]]) and Martial-Arts Luminary Creator/YuenWooPing, who is beloved for his works with JetLi and his masterful combat-choreography on classics like ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina'' and ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon''.

* XMeetsY: ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' crossed with ''Film/TheTerminator''...in India!

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Zigzagged. Bora figures out early on that he can turn Chitti against Vaseegaran thanks to Sana, but [[spoiler:doesn't think to give Chitti some kind of RestrainingBolt along with the red chip.]]

Notable for being the only collaboration between monster-meister Creator/StanWinston (whose most beloved creations include Film/TheTerminator and The Film/{{Alien}} Queen) and Martial-Arts Luminary Creator/YuenWooPing, who is beloved for his works with JetLi and his masterful combat-choreography on classics like ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina'' and ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon''.

* ShoutOut: To Creator/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]].

* XMeetsY: ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' crossed with ''TheTerminator''...in India!

* ActorAllusion: Chitti waxing poetic over Sana may come out of leftfield for some, but it ''is'' the sort of thing you'd get, at any point in history, with anyone that could be labeled WorldsMostBeautifulWoman.

* PlayingAgainstType: Evil!Chitti is notably Rajnikanth's first villainous role ''after thirty years''.

* GiftGivingGaffe: Apparently Vaseegaran gave Sana "[[StephenHawking A Briefer History of Time]]" and "{{Freakonomics}}". Not as bad as the ''female razor'', though.

* {{Bollywood}}

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding]]: [[spoiler: At the end, a reprogrammed Chitti convinces the court to not blame Dr. Vaseegaran for the destruction caused by his creation. However, the court decides that Chitti must dismantle himself. Chitti takes this in stead and complies, making peace with Sana and Dr. Vaseegaran as he does.]]

* [[spoiler:KeystoneArmy: Zigzagged. Vaseegaran sends viruses into the evil!Chitti army by hacking just one of them. It doesn't quite take, until Vaseegaran finds evil!Chitti and takes out Bora's red chip, which does the trick.]]

* [[spoiler:MesACrowd]]

* [[spoiler:WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]]: [[spoiler: Rejected by the woman he loves and dismantled by his creator, Chitti is a good example of Woobie-dom. Then Professor Bora installs the destruction chip, and things go crazy.]]

** When Vaseegaram [[spoiler:masquerades as an evil!Chitti Mook, he gives himself the serial number [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42]].]]