The movie almost starts in a dreamworld. Nice fun to start with… But it’s rather difficult to keep watching similar unrealistic fun all the way through your ticket.
Sharukh (Sekhar Subrahmaniam, a tamilian by birth) works for a video game company. His son doesn’t like him for; his father is a good man and no superman or no bad-man. Yes, the son has a great passion for villains and wants an unbeatable villain in his craze of video games.
Sekhar’s character was bound to be shown as funny as possible but with some high moral values...
Looks wise… his hair style was really bad as rightly mentioned in one of the scenes and at some places he looks too aged in that kind of a styling.
Sekhar tries and gives his best to his son, via a game where the villain is stuffed with full of Artificial Intelligence : Ra-One. And a hero is there in the game as well with all the kind heart of Sekhar: G.One. The bothering stuff starts when both these imaginary game parts come live into their model suits. And there are numerous conditions as to how these characters can kill each other with heart in and heart out of their bodies.
Here you unavoidably get reminded of Terminator… but it feels like there is a limit for the imagination as well… especially in the climax…since the backdrop for these characters wasn’t very convincing…atleast for me..
There is a brief episode where in G-1 tries to mingle as a person with Sekhar’s family and that may entertain for a while…
Having heard the language of Tamil for good number of years living in between tamilians, it was still getting difficult to understand what Sharukh at times was trying to speak.. If the director had not succeeded in reflecting the tamil ascent from Sharukh he definitely had brought some laughs in the theatre when Sekhar has noodles with Thair (Curd) ….just on a lighter note…
The Train episode suddenly pops up and is mostly to show case the Robotic skills of G One, but again One should admit that it’s not upto the mark and if you have the memories of Robot Rajni, still in your mind...you may not like it at all.. Music / sound track would keep you humming on the way home..
Rajni role was very brief but personally I felt they were not able to get back that Robot getup as is…
Visual effects in final battle … those can be a given credit; GOne would be fighting against RaOne for saving Sekhar’s son..
But finally one may get to feel as though you spent on a high-fi video game rather than a film ticket…
The director tried to please too many on the go, the southern circuit with presence of Rajni and the Tamil effect, the children with the presence of robot, technology hungry guys with a weird piece of Artificial intelligence (don’t know if that ever can become true.. am not very technical) and our mythological department while he tries to sync up the villain character with the real Raavanasura in our great epic - Ramayana.
It would have turned out better had he concentrated on one single area and the film might have come much better. Having heard of the lots of money and time invested for promotion of this film, we can duly agree that all that it is required; else the film might get into chaos if it kicks off with a –ve talk…
Watch it without expectations and if you don’t have a better option.