Comments on REVIEW: Robot

deepagahlot commented on 'REVIEW: Robot'

2010-10-05T06:52:25Z

Sigh... give me a reason to see this movie, gurlz!

Deepa Deosthalee commented on 'REVIEW: Robot'

2010-10-04T09:33:17Z

Thanks Bidisha and Beth. Beth, your analysis of the film is superb. Thanks for sending it to me. Bidisha, wish anyone knew when anything would actually change. It's exasperating to watch the heroine being compromised over and over again in Hindi cinema. So much so, even when they copied an already sexist film like Stepmom, they compromised both women's characters even further and made them much worse than they were in the original. As for the heroine of last year's magnum opus, '3 Idiots', I intend to write a thesis on her some day.

Bidisha Ghosal commented on 'REVIEW: Robot'

2010-10-04T07:56:44Z

Hi,
I agree with your take, but what worries me is that the country is still in love with perverse patriarchal values. The films that have stormed box offices recently, like Dabanng, Wanted, Three Idiots, and now Robot, have only token female characters who are each sidelined with all the testosterone flying about. And the country loves it. Makes me realise we have a Long Long way to go, despite magazines and fiction telling us otherwise.

Beth commented on 'REVIEW: Robot'

2010-10-04T03:10:33Z

Yes! Thank you for putting so succinctly and powerfully what is wrong with this film's treatment of its (sparse) female characters and its macho/patriarchal assumptions. Those aspects of the film were so wearying. I hadn't even thought about the Chitti-as-creator note in the birth scene, which is a fascinating move from gods and human shaving that power to machines having it. And it's something evil Chitti shares, isn't it, with his army of clones who are still like but less than he is.

If you're interested, I spent a ton of energy trying to sort out that horrifying fire/suicide scene. http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2010/10/him-robot-endhiran.html