As if the triumphant triumvirate of Rajni, Shankar and A.R.R is not enough to send expectations through the roof, now they have roped in Aish for Robot. As every Rajni fan, I am truly happy to see the 'Perfect' woman getting together on screen with the 'Perfect' Man, BUT there is a part of me doubting whether this time around they will actually trip over themselves. Before anyone gets defensive, look at the numbers for Shivaji.. they are big ones, but not that good if its put in front of you in percentages and Robot at the least WILL double everything under the expenses coloum and I am not convinced that they can double the revenue. Where is the new or the 'extra' market going to come from? There are 3 distributors who actually claimed a loss for Shivaji (Salem, with 17 Cinemas being one of them), so with the price of Robot surely to eclipse that of Shivaji, we can only hope that is one record that will never be broken!
The optimistic in me says that its not all doom and gloom, if Shankar puts together another of his trademark scripts which made people like Arjun look good, and Aish if given a role similar to Padaiappa's Neelambari, then all that magic can line up behind the Big Man's charisma and push the movie past the red into the black. But they are two big 'IFs', considering its a Rajni movie, lets not forget the response to Chandramukhi. A movie with the Robot's reported budget will have to rake in 10 or 20 times what CM did to look equally impressive. So again, it all rests on Shankar. Will pray that the immensely blessed man can yet again pull a rabbit out of the hat and prove to us that the picture that the Producers are currently seeing via the pink tinted glasses that this team has given them is not fictitious!
