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Plot summary
Dr. K. Vaseegaran has spent a decade building Chitti, a highly advanced humanoid android designed to serve in the Indian Army, with his lab technicians Siva and Ravi helping him. Sana, the medical student he is dating, feels he has neglected their relationship for too long and threatens to walk away. At a robotics conference, Vaseegaran shows off Chitti's mental and physical abilities, and the display wins a standing ovation. Sana forgives him and asks to bring the android home to help her get ready for her final examinations. Chitti aids her during an exam and protects her from a violent gang on a commuter train. Bohra, who mentored Vaseegaran years ago, has taken secret work from a terrorist organization to manufacture military androids, and he needs Chitti's neural schema for it.
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- Sugunthanas Walkie-Talkie Inspector
- Revathi Sankaranas Vaseegaran's mother
- Devadarshini Chetanas Latha
- Shylaja Chetluras Gynecologist
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Enthiran (2010)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Joe Russo said the scene in Enthiran where numerous clones of Chitti join to form a giant python inspired a similar scene in Age of Ultron (2015), where Ultron's clones merge into a gigantic version of himself, but that scene was cut from the final film to keep its runtime down.
- Shah Rukh Khan was approached to play the lead in Robot in 2007, with Priyanka Chopra cast opposite him. Khan was to produce it through his own banner Red Chillies Entertainment, but the project was aborted that October over creative differences with Shankar.
- The visual effects budget fell from ₹700 million, set when Eros-Ayngaran produced the film, to ₹200 million after Sun Pictures took over. The team had to omit and alter sequences, and Chitti wore sunglasses for most of the film to cut the cost of animating his eyes.
- The song "Kilimanjaro" was shot at the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru with some 100 Brazilian extras, choreographed by Raju Sundaram and supervised by Fernando Astete, director of the Machu Picchu archaeological park.
- Chitti's introduction, in which he gives his processor clock rate of 1 terahertz and memory limit of 1 zettabyte — "Hi, I'm Chitti, speed 1 terahertz, memory 1 zettabyte" — became a popular line.
- Chitti was a mannequin built by a Legacy Effects team of 100 technicians in Los Angeles, and each robotic mannequin used in the film needed six puppeteers to control its movements.
- After finishing his Hindi debut Nayak (2001), Shankar announced Robot, which was to feature Kamal Haasan and Preity Zinta. A photoshoot with the pair was completed, but the project was shelved because of scheduling conflicts with Haasan.
- Enthiran was passed over as India's official Academy Awards submission because the jury said it had sequences lifted from four American films, even though it had won Best Special Effects and cutting-edge technology awards at the 17th Screen Awards.
