Dasavatharam Review

That was a highly offensive comment about a decent movie… Be it Kamal’s ideologies, it is still his.. You are being as much a fanatic as he is by totally rejecting a line of thought.. And just because Kamal has conveyed that, there is no reason why the movie must be hated..
The movie I agree could have been much better for the hype and there are several reasons to blame.. But the reason you give about him pressing his ideologies into the movie is just rambling…. I could see the kind of guy you are by seeing that you named your webbsite desipundit!!! You bloody religious fanatics!!!

HEllo, i saw the movie… it was awesome……

This is an outrageous comment.
Plz if u can be a little decent while writing.Your writing itself stinks so y believe in a review from an awkward person.

Just mind your words.

Its really heartening to see such reveiws on one of the legend of indian cinema. The flaws apart, if a movie like om shanti om can be such a hit why cant this be. We should learn to appreciate the unique effort. If a hollywood movie attempts a different attempt we hail and praise. Kamal has to consider producer who has spent 90 crores and thats the reason he has included commercial elements in it. He knows how to make a movie as natural as Hollywood. But then such efforts in the past have been neglected by our own audience even though it had critical acclaim. Please stop such reviews to save indian cinema and its attempt to creativity.

I beleive you didnt have the understading ability abopt the story.Better,you watch and come again.Let me see whether you brain starts working at that time …

Just saw the movie and I thought it was a pretty good effort. There was a decent story line and this was a good masala film after a long time. Dialogs were also decent unlike what I heard.Having this comment on DP would probably just discourage people from even seeing it and just because it was one of the first reviews, it does not have to be featured on DP.

Awesome review.. I just saw the movie and I agree with the review.. It’s just a piece of crap!

The movie is just a piece of crap.. Every person who says that the review is outrageous, should be ardent Kamal fans, who would never agree that its a flop even if his movies were a flop.

IN MY VIEW KAADHALUKU MARIYATHAI IS BETTER THAN THIRUPAATCHI

IT HAD GOOD CAST WITH THE SOFT TOUCH OF GLAMMOUR FROM K.R.VIJAYA

SIVAJI CUD HAVE DONE BETTER ROLE THAN IN TIRUPAATCHI

DANUSH SUD HAVE BEEN THE SON OF SIVAJI INSTEAD OF RAJINI

IF THT HAD MUSICED BY THYAGARAJA BHAGAVAATHAR IT CUD HAVE COME AS A SPLENDID MOVIE

desipundit hits the nail on the head with his assessment
dasavatharam is all talk no cock
bakwaas is the word
some roles are so silly it becomes a joke
and the makeup is pretty shoddy
very well said its egomaiacs fart…

and any sensible movie watcher will come out releived the movie is over.

i can see a few comments here who are so pissed – the reason for their anger is kamal has let these so called fans down miserably. since they cant bark at their demi god they are barking here.

and whats wrong with the name desi pundit? if you dont like his name why do crap here?

You may want to leave these comments at the original blog where the review was published. There is a heated discussion going on there.

well, it isn’t the movie that stinks as mentioned by this esteemed self proclaimed desibandit..oops…pundit…it’s actually this pundit that stinks inevitably, trying to hide in his own ego and blindfolding himself from the greatness of a masterclass of a movie.

really man, you need to fuckin’ grow up. may god damn u!

Aiyo! I guess DesiPundit has started attracting Rediff commenters.

By giving an absolute negative review, the reader may tend to believe the other way.

Anyway you have your right to criticize a movie on the accepted norms.

its amazing how some people can browse the web but still not know how to find and click a link in a web page.

I have written several reviews for movies, but I have never written a review for such a lousy movie! I request you to read this review and watch the movie, and then read the review again. I am sure you will agree to my comments atleast 50% unless you are an ardent Kamal fan. I am not sure if I carry any personal bias against this movie, but I feel I am writing this review with complete honesty.

First of all, the movie is one of the most super-lengthiest movies I have ever seen. Metaphorically speaking, I felt as if the movie was longer than all three parts of “Lord of the Rings” put together, sans the story, sans screenplay, sans music, sans continuity, sans logic, sans romance, sans…. etc.,

It is very obvious that he has struggled to bring the movie to an end. Too many characters for the ten roles he wanted to do.. I guess he wanted to beat “Sivaji Ganesan” by acting one more role to break the record of nine roles in the movie “Navaratri”. For that, I felt that a few characters were forcibly inserted.

All that said, He has touched the sensitive danger spots of every sect of the hindu culture. He has spared none! Now I understand why there were protests and court cases on the movie. However, he didn’t want to leave out and hurt other religions as well, so he inserted one character each for all other prominent religions in India, Christianity, Islam and Sikhism. I wonder what made him to leave out Jainism, Buddhism (ah I guess the Japanese was a Buddhist but it was not explicitely mentioned in the movie), Taoism, Confucianism, Paganism, blah blah-ism etc.,

At one point he tries to be very apologetic when he says “நான் கடவுள் இல்லைன்னு சொல்லலங்க, கடவுள் இருந்தா நல்லா இருக்கும்னு தான் சொல்றேன்..”, I guess he is totally confused whether to accept his own identity as being born a Hindu or whether to be an atheist.

Other unnecessary things were many songs, bringing Karunanidhi in the picture, Bush character, Avtar singh etc etc., Overall it made us feel that the whole movie was unnecessary.

I have seen goofs in movies, but this is the first time I am seeing a movie in goofs.

My Verdict:
Kamal has tried to state his stance on religion, environment, politics, terrorism etc., but religion sticks out a mile, and others are suppressed. His stance on religion is confusing as well. He has assumed that the mass is very intelligent which shows his stupidity. He has tried to say too many things and finally fails to deliver it.

That said, “I won’t say the movie is a flop, but the movie is a disaster.”

Hats off to Desipundit for writing what they believe.

I am no big fan of Kamal Hassan (and I don’t speak Tamil) but I watched with an open mind expecting to have fun…just like I had watching Sivaji.
The movie is ridiculous (Except Kamal Hassan’s performance) and the graphics that were shown were one of the worst ever. And when was the last time we saw a leading lady be so annoying on screen?

I don’t understand why fans are getting so defensive about the review. The movie sucks big time. Accept it and move on.
I for one look forward to his next movie.

Hi Friends,
What the heck of a comment was that in the name of a review. Dasavatharam is one cracker of a movie. Splendid, astonishing and full speed gripping entertainment movie. Heaven’s sake please do not write stuff like this..
This would be the last time i would see this site for a review comment and don’t turn down people from visiting your website by writing crap like that one..
Write comments that are valid, true and well accessed.
I’m not a Kamal fan but got to admit he’s done a splendid job . Hats off KAMAL. He’s too good an actor and its too good a movie.

And for our friend “Suresh” who wrote the earlier comment about being open minded . If you think you are open minded please think again. How better would you weave a story with 10 characters ?
As far as your animation part it wasn’t Pixer who designed it but we all got the message. Who do you think you are this YO-Yo guy in Anniyan who evolved all of a sudden who watches all this so called funky movies.. Sorry dude you and your like minded “DesiPundit” (where did our friend choose this name from , sounds to me like a ardent porn star..)miserably failed in your so called eloquent ways of writing comments.
By the way guys could you please spell the works critics or comments to all of us…
No offenses meant.. I know you are cool guys..

Hey,

I first commented for the article, and I feel heartened to see the comments pouring in about the non-sense in the name of review. As raj mohan points out, it is a great achievement to have so good a graphics in an Indian movie. Remember, even the English movies did not start out making excellent graphics right from the beginning. People evolve to perfection.. Dont right away jump into it… And this film is undoubtedly the first step for Indian movies into that…

Saw the movie today. My verdict : it was really bad. I spent close to 50$ for this movie (for me , my wife and kid). The movie started well with good chopper shots of chennai and the chola period sequence. But rapidly degenerated into ameaningless mish mash. The make up was pathetic. It has gone worse from even the “Indian” days(when Kamal’s makeup mania started). Especially, George Bush and Khalifullah were atrocious. The special effects were pretty ordinary , the much hyped tsunami effects were not even as good as what they show in discovery channel documentaries.

Well before the interval, I lost my interest. My kid was begging to go home.It may be worth if you are single and shelling out 10 odd dollars. But definitely not worth the ticket price for the family.

Just because the movie scores a high 7.5 on 10 (strictly on my gauge) or the fact that Kamal is arguably the most versatile actor in India (I sincerely think so) does not mean that any stuff rolled out with a mix of both, to the audience will be accepted.

It remains to be seen whether the movie is a it or flop and the audience will have the last laugh on that.

The movie is a touch too lengthy in patches and the story line gets thin in mostly those areas.

And the make-up (on some of kamal’s roles at times) was not convincing enough.

And Asin i think has done (at times over kills) justice to the character of the village girl obsessed with PERUMAAL.

Davatharam is nothing but a glorified fancy dress, with below par graphics. Some scenes (fletcher, mallika, govind and police officer travellinging in the jeep) were like the 70’s movie. shaking the jeep and moving the background image.

I would have accepted all these short commings had they not marketed it as landmark, iconic, record breaking , magnum opus blah blah blah. History will remember this movie as the costliest boring film in the history of Indian cinema.

Definitely this movie will be a financial hit. But the movie is a crap. That is a bitter truth.

In bangalore streets I have seen street children dressed like hanuman begging. If you are interested in watching fancy dress gave some money to these children. At least you will have the satisfaction that you did some thing good.

how could you give such a stupid comment in the form of a review in public forums like this???? i think you have not seen the movie or u did not like kamal for what he is. i saw the movie yesterday. its great, awesome. one of the best tamil movies of recent times. it has a complex story, excellent special effects, experienced veteran technical crew and most importantly Kamal who can do any role, given a camera! what else can u ask for??? if u still don like d movie then go on and watch all those b & c class movies and prevent tamil cinema from growing to world standards…

Yeah. I agree with the review. This movie is a big bore. I went with big time expectations (in fact I begged my mom to stand in the queue to get the tickets) and then what? I wanted to get away from the theater even before the interval. I heard someone say that you cannot recognise Kamal in a few of the characters, simple if you ask me – if see anyone with an awakward looking big spooky face then it is Kamal.

My verdict.. Kamal needs to leave the script and story writing business to professionals and for god’s sake stop attempting to do any kind of experiments to test the audience’s patience, after so much overdose of Kamal, this movie would leave the audience not wanting to see atleast 10 next movies of him.

This movie sucks hard time. I felt like my brain was gangraped by all his alien like avatars – i need to go to a rehabilitation center. This movie sucks hard time – FUKKKKKKKK

Just spent close to $100 for this POS movie. I have two words for all prospects…. STAY AWAY. This movie is not even worth watching on DVD.

Wow.

Just wow…

Someone should make a movie of the comments!

It takes some high level of intellect to appreaciate what Kamal tries to deliver with the movie.Obviously,those who comment here against the film just do not have it.

1. 3 Hours without a proper story.Vilan Kamal is okay to some extent, Kamal Iyengar screws his community with idol being thrown, ditched etc., Very harsh for religious people to take.
2. Songs – Pathetic – Smoking time apart from interval
3. Ravikumar’s touch Missing – No story at all!
4. Pity producers – Not even worth few million rupees why waste billion!
5. Ladies hate due to many killings and more violence (Big loss!)
This cannot win hearts of literates or illiterates. It is very high time to stop delivering what Kamal wanted and deliver what public and producer wanted (i.e.) public wants decent entertainer and producer should not be in streets.

Oru Kamal BORE ADDICHA AAPPU . 8 Kamal BORE ADDICHA Super AAPPU.

The film is over cooked with Kamal and running of this film is really very difficult after a month. My honest opinion is Michael Madana kamarajan was excellent with real Kamal faces than this one surely.

Dialogues are really irritating.Telling in a nutshell, this movie will not reach all the people.

wished it was better in many ways.
but am a kamal fan. will see it again though.

dasavatharam movie doesn’t deserve such harsh comments because the movie really fantastic one.no body know the real value of the person when they alive only if the person not their
they know the value like that people doesn’t
know the value of kamal hassan. the only mistake kamal does is he takes movie classes
not for the mass. if u doesn’t like the movie just say movie is bad or not enough
don’t go for the personal attack on kamal hassan. kamal hassan has masted in taking the movie nobody has any sort maturity to criticize his creation. mind your words while writing a review.

Absolute disaster . How can a person who has won three bharat awards do such a stupid movie and still expect it to be success ? The movie is such a waste of time that you feel that its a test of your patience. After making such an awful waste how can the director come at end and dance like that ? Its high time kamal understood that there are people who likes to see some films of his which makes some sense.

Hey dude chill man, relax its ok. kamal hasan is a versatile actor and the movie is good

It seems that the film has made a big impact on ur writing

Try to be decent..

Hello Everybody,
This is my review about “Dasavatharam” after i saw it this saturday.
Story:- Pathetic
Acting:- it is painful watching Kamal dishing out such mediocre stuff in the name of acting.
Special Effects:- Sub-zero standard. The special effects and graphics in the cartoon movie The Polar Express is far better than this.

Only the first 10 mins of the movie is good.
After watching the movie, people coming out of the theatre were expressionlesss, as if everybody were struck with an hammer on their head.

Overall, This movie sucks to the core. My sincere advice is, please stay, as far away from this as possible.
Someone has got to remind Kamal that he is PadmaShri Dr.Kamal Hassan and not some ad-hoc third rate actor.

After watching Dasavatharam on Friday night at east windsor, nj, I came home and started reading the reviews on various blogs..No other review came closer to explain my feelings about this movie than hawkeye’s reviews… Being an ardent fan of kamal, he has completely betrayed his fans.. The graphics and the 10 roles could be termed as marvellous and stupendous by some ppl, but as someone said it earlier it is nothing more than a fancy dress competition.. Unnecessary characters, trying to mix crude humor with the flow of the movie, chappathi flour make up etc spoil the movie.. The two roles that Kamal has done pretty good is balram naidu and Rangarajan Nambi… Instead of trusting his acting talents that has given us so many classic movies, he has trusted this movie on the make-up, K.s. Ravikumar and of-course his views and ideologies on god.. We expect a mahanadhi or devar magan or guna from Kamal in every movie, but what we got here was a different aalavandhan/baba kind of movie…

For some reason, hawkeye blogspot is no longer accessible.. wonder if there is no foul play in that

kamal should just stop writing screenplays…he’s an orson welles wannabe…

but he is the best actor in this country today, no doubt….lightyears ahead of the others…

but (makes me sad to say this cos im an ardent fan) kamal’s big budget movies are extravagant, convoluted and vulgarly self-indulgent

hey all, movie is good and enjoying. What else is needed, much better then SIVAJI…so stop ur critics…next time u can stay away from his movies, but we not

my review on my wordpress page

rameshram.wordpress.com

ermm..kamal latest flick is really good..huge megaplex in msia have allocated three diff screening at the same time for this movie..normally there’ll be only one at a time ..hail kamal

Hi, The movie is worth the money you spend for it. I have never ever seen Kamal perform any better. His blend into the 10 portrayed characters is near perfect. However you would be leaving the theatre with a confused mind not even a second in the middle of the movie you saw leave alone the theatre you were in. It is too far from being realistic and pushes wrong scientific and other ideologies without any thought for the wisdom of the audience. Kamal had probably imagined a 11th role which is probably the audience.

Dasavatharam is a milestone in Indian cinema and gives the right direction to the Indian cinema industry to step forward.

Not only kamal hassan’s best performances in this movie but also the techniques used in this film are wonderful.

1. I can remember I saw four kamal hassan in one scene and each role requires 10 hours of preparation and shooted in different days. Still you can feel like that each role is performed by different actors (thanks to Kamalji).

2. Especially the stunts scenes performed by fletcher kamal and japanese lady is really good.

3. The camera angles and visual effects used in this film are excellent. Don’t forget to watch the tsunami scene and eagle angle of chennai.

Don’t expect these masala items in this movie and you will enjoy!!!
1. don’t expect super hero stunts like flying 100 feet from floor
2. don’t compare this movie with high budget Hollywood movies like titanic(spent 1000 crore rs) but in this movie they spent only less than 100 crores for movie production
3. item songs or duet songs or boring love story.

This movie clearly gives us chance proud about our Indian movies

Compare Om Shanti Om (the worst picture ever done by khan) with this film

I feel pity for this site for having reviewers like this.

A good movie.Avtaar singh make up was best.
I liked it.I appreciate Kamal’s effort.

Hmmmm !! so many comments !! let me add mine too!
This movie is an awesome piece especially to those who have not lost the Intellectual mindset of a true Indian to the overpowering instantaneous lifestyle… there is a lot more to watch and observe in each of the Characters and the consequential screenplay that falls in place for the movie to go on… I agree to the fact that this is one movie that cannot be watched out of Box that we usually do with most of Kamal Hassan’s movies…. We need to move with the Action that is actually connecting the next character that is going to step in to make the change on the screen…. Now dasavatharam is for a commercial purpose But I DO NOT Agree that Kamal had any plans of Matching Rajni Kanth One has to understand that there is a Unique aspect that Kamal Hassan Expects his audience to perceive or derive out of the movie…. If you are true Fan you will catch it else you will end up giving up like some did…. GO BACK WATCH THE MOVIE AGAIN listen to the dialogs…. Technicalities no comments as you have seen it….already make up and Graphics…..
to sum up it is not an Average movie at all and taking the different roles into consideration and their body languages it is just goes without saying what efforts have gone into it….Pay the Price of Perception and then expect your derivation for the satisfaction you expect…..

Hi

I see a huge diaspora between those who are evidently Kamal fans and those who are trying to review the movie by subtracting the Kamal factor.

To be fair, however, it is impossible to consider the one without considering the other.

The main problems with the movie would be it’s guessable plot (however twisted it might seem), the introduction of unnecessary characters who are of no significance to the plot(khalifullah, Avatar Singh, George Bush), a desperate attempt to link these characters and a virtual massacre of the ‘Chaos’ theory. The make-up on the Fletcher character was unconvincing as was the make-up on Khalifullah. In effect there are several flaws with the film.

However on the upside, the first scene of the movie was brilliantly done, as were the roles of Naidu and the Dalit activist.
Although Kallai Mattum is an amazing song, i believe it’s a rip off from a Malayalam movie and that is highly disconcerting.

On balance, the movie ought to be watched for Kamal’s performance in certain roles, but it certainly will not feature in the list of Kamal’s Top 5 movies

Dear Friends,

Its simple.. Kamal cannot give a movie like Dasavatharam.. (having personal beleifs, self praising hero worship songs, vulgur dance .. etc) if this comes from actors like vijay or directors like perarasu then we can say its a good movie.. because thats thier capacity.. Some one like Kamal who is claimed to be THE genious of tamil movies industry can not deliver a crap..

whot a intellectual Movie.. hats off Sir. you are the inspiration..

Cracker of a review. Thanks for calling a spade a spade. It’s fanatics of so called superstars which make such movies worth more than it is. Dasa doesn’t deserve anything. It is a disaster and stinks just like it stunk on the 26th Dec on that fateful day in Chennai when the tsunami brought out the stink from Coovam.

I’m from Mumbai and I watched this Tamil movie for the first time…. The movie is really damn good… Just thought I was watching a hollywood movie… Many Cock suckers Like Vishal and the gay fucker Arun Prakash Iyer tell idiotic things about the movie…. These suckers could better suck dicks instead of writing crappy comments… The movie is incredible…..

I agree this review, I haven’t seen this movie yet but I heard from my friends and relatives that the movie was flopped and cann’t see till end…. THANKS

It is an obnoxiously dumb review and only DP will link to such crap.

Just two words to Kamal – Stop Acting

I wonder when our audience would grow and stop appreciating saas-bahu saga or a popper getting rich over night…a dumb fair chick blindly falls for a loser…after seein al those movies in different languages..I felt dasavatharam is a breather…being a hindu I dont give a shit to hindu sentiments..lol..I liked the movie….finally I felt that Indians too can make a hollywood movie sorta….

Hey Hawkeye,.
i never seen such a idiotic review,.
i think only a egoistic and crack fellow can give such a review. dont u have brains mate can u show a movie in whole industry which has such effects. wen u take de screenplay its was so very organised in such a way dat it could put u in de edge of ur sit. i can definetly assure dat it no way touched de sacred part of any community., for ur kind attension he havnt mentioned or talked abt any bad credits of the religions. see the movie without any bias,. it shows dat ur mindset is towards something else,. if u expected a porn movie den u shld have gone somewere else not to this,. this movie is for intellectual ppl who belives in hardwork and experimenting. each role is developed after a keen observation,. i can say no one ever in indian history can give a such good movie.

very awkward comment from awkward person
Dr kamal is a real gift to indian cinema.
Please dont pull his legs down by these nonsense and ugly comments
If u have rights to give this worst and ugly comments against this legend kamalhasan then we also have rights to ?????
Really he is a Ulaga nayan there is no doubt in this .
mind ur words mr. @#@#@#@#@

may i ask why some of you are comparing dasavatharam to sivaji?

sivaji was crap and all of us know it. it was just a masala movie with fanciful songs.

dasavatharam showed sincere effort from kamal hassan. each role was different in its own way. just think about the kizhavi role. can you believe that kamal was acting in the role? i almost forgot that the rest of the characters except for govind were even portrayed by kamal hassan.

seriously, if a non-tamil or a non-indian asks you to show a tamil movie, would you chose sivaji or dasavatharam?

i think that kamal has a good attitude and a good character personally. but even if he doesn’t, how can you comment that the movie was bad by pinpointing it to his personal life?

this is an absolutely ridiculous review with unsupported statements.

what can i say? more and more armchair critics are coming up.

Review – Dasavatharam

> Too many doubts about correlation of the movie, Chaos theory and Butterfly Effect have come into Picture….!!!
> The movie clearly states about Chaos Theory and Butterfly Effect [Kamal says it in his Speech in the Movie ]
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> The concept of “CHAOS THEORY” and “BUTTERFLY EFFECT”, by itself is a complex concept, which mainly highlights the happening of huge unimaginable things because of least probable things…!!!!
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> Dasa although deals with these concept, but does not necessarily confuse anyone with it,,,, As i said earlier, its mainly “YOU”… that plays a factor in how the movie gets along with “YOU”.
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> You have got to be Case 1 or Case 2 as i have said earlier in this entry,,, No use being Half Baked…..!!!!
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> To just brief about these Concepts,
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> Q: What is Chaotic System ?
> A: Basically a chaotic system is one wherein long term predictions are impossible.Like for example,if I push a car, I know that it is going to move and it will continue to do so if I go on pushing it on and on.However,in a chaotic system,this situation cannot be predicted over a long period of time.
> Weather for example is a chaotic system.No matter how good your instruments are,you simply cannot predict the weather with 100% accuracy over a long term basis and forecast it.
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> Q: What is the Butterfly Effect ?
> A: It is the most important component of a chaotic system.Basically,small perturbations results in amplifications which completely destroys the original nature of the system and makes prediction impossible.
> If a butterfly flaps its wings in Africa,it could result in a cyclone in USA.(Mark the word COULD).A highly dumbed down explanation of the butterfly effect is in the film Anniyan,where Vikram’s sister dies because a liquor shop owner sells liquor on a dry day.
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> Q: OK, how does Dasa incorporate it ?
> A: In essence,Dasa talks about 8 characters who are inconsequential as such,but are integrated in a larger picture.Without Bush,the plane would have been called back.Without Shinghen, Govind would be dead.Without the tsunami,the world would have been destroyed.Even Krishnaveni Patti plays a very important role.If she had not put the vial in the idol,maybe Govind would have recovered it then and there and a powerful weapon would have been unleashed.The very fact that it went into the idol meant that it was being accelerated to its destiny.Without Kaifulla Khan, Govind would have never escaped;the list simply goes on.
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> Q:OK,so does the film talk about theism or atheism?
> A:Neither.It talks about how humans drive the destiny of the world.
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> The movie does Show ” A Butterfly ” flying accross the screen after the Tsunami Attcck, clearly indicating that the Tsunami is an Outcome of ” The Butterfly effect “.
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> ALSOOOOOOO……..
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> I said that the butterfly COULD cause a hurricane.That’s a huge probability. Would be a negligible probability. NOT a huge one. if that were true, we would have cyclones on an hourly basis as butterflies keep flitting all over Africa and u don’t have so many cyclones to account for a HUGE probability.
> Chaos,relativity and quantum mechanics are so damn weird that you will think I am talking metaphysics and pseudoscience.
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> Like for example,according to quantum mechanics,there is a finite probability that you will fall right through a solid chair.And it is a PROBABILITY.
> Even 10 to the power -26 is finite .
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> But yes, Quantum Mechanics does allow for weird situations.
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> THE CONNECTION !!!!!
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> Guys check this link for a clear and complete explanation
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theoryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
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> In the above links u can see that butterfly’s wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in a certain location..
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> So in dasavatharam that idol thrown into sea in 12th century is the cause for tsunami…. so everything is interlinked .The wiki entry also says that chaos could play an important role in plate techtonics. Which means even the 12th century incident is connected.
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> The 1st scene is perfectly connected to the climax, remember what Kamal says in the 1st scene, that he will not say “Om Nama Shivaya” , but Asin tells him to chant it , but still Kamal refuses , ( in this kamal in his story tries to tell that ) Nambi believes in his god more than anything, but Asin feels “Its ok if we change the god or chant other god’s name, its life thats most important.” Now if u see the climax its JUST OPPOSITE…. Kamal doesn’t believe in god much and values lives of people the most…. but Asin deeply believes in god and that too this dialogue comes when both Asin and Kamal’s hand is on the god which came from the sea , and it also means that they are getting united from the place they departed hundreds of years back ( Kamal and Asin).The connection between the 1st scene and the climax in the movie shows the generation circle combined with supernatural powers of GOD and destiny…..!!!
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> If you watch it closely u can also find another actor who has done double action other than Asin and Kamal.
> Asin’s father Sahasranamam [12th Century], in the beginning he says to Nambi “Panchatchira manthirathai sollitu vaango mappillai” and at the End [After tsunami] he says “Avar enna jathiyo inga vaanga paati “.
> Another Eg. of Chaos Theory and circle of life.
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> JUST IMAGINE THE CHAOS THEORY IN A TAMIL FILM ??
> WILL ANYONE HAVE THE GUTS TO HANDLE THIS KIND OF A SUBJECT IN A TAMIL FILM?
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> ONLY KAMAL HAS THE GUTS…. U ROCK!!
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> FURTHER————-
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> Nambi explanation
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> Okay, this is slightly outside the chaotic system driving the film as a whole.From what I could gather he says that this story is about ideologies like God,the madness surrounding such ideologies and decides to tell the story of the Shaivite-Vaishnavite conflict to show how people go crazy in the name of God as an example.
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> As a loose end,it gets tied up in the end,when the Ranganathar idol is thrown out of the sea due to the tsunami which highlights the cyclic nature of life.Actually the Nambi character highlights both Chaos and Karma which I explained.That is the brilliance of this film,there is so much to see and understand.
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> Another explanation(and this is slightly far fetched— as explained earlier) is that Govind is in fact the reincaranation of Nambi. As Nambi he couldn’t protect God and died in the name of God.In order to fulfill his Karma,he is reincarnated as Govind Ramasamy who ultimately saves the world from destruction.The idol in the end somewhat hints to this theory; his story began with the idol and it ends with the idol.
> As far as the connection with Nambi character and events in 12th Century goes…
> The connection is based on the “Butterfly effect “.
>
> When Govind and Andal goes to the bury the idol in the sands, Andal will stumble on a particular stone couple of times…This is the same stone as the one from 12th Century hen Kothai rips her Thaali and flings it at Kulothunga Chozan…it will end up hanging on the stone. So, the implied message here is Andal is Kothai reborn in the 21s century.
> During the encounter with Santhana Bharathi in the sand quarry, it is repeat of the incident from 12th century. Instead of Kulothunga Chozhan, it is the Sand Mafia which tries to inflict damage on the land.
> This movie is a brilliant juxtaposition of independent characters whose paths cross, if only briefly, which is stunning example of Chaos Theory.
>
> The idol that is drowned in the sea along with Rangarajan in 12th century by Chozha king results in a fault being developed at the bottom of the ocean and creates tremors more than 800 years later. These tremors result in the Tsunami. This again is a classic case of Butterfly Effect wherein a seemingly inconcsequential event (the drowing of the idol) saves Tamil Nadu from being wiped out off the face of the earth.
>
> But actually kamal has not left anything for our imagination… Explanation struck the right chord, Kamal does tell to Asin in a dialogue that idol which gets sunken back then gets struck between the tectonic plates under the sea and causes tsunami…
> Many people missed this dialogue i guess. Kamal’s accent was so very perfect Tamil, that many people missed it…. Being perfect Is a Problem by Itself !!!
>
> Although the explanation is a least possible theory, that is what “Chaos Theory” And “Butterfly Effect” are all about.
> Its not just the statue that caused the tsunami, but it just started a large chain of effects which kept multiplying exponentially and finally lead to it after 800 years….!!
> Why just say this concept is perfectly illogical… it is possible… thats what i have been explaining all the while !!!
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> The story line is that things going wrong are made to be right which involves many people and countries knowingly or unknowingly.
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> Knowingly:
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> -Bush, Manmohan Singh, Govindh, Fletcher, Balaram Naidu, Mallika Sherawath.
>
> Unknowingly:
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> -Nambi’s drowning to death with the heavy statue causes simple changes to the seabed that causes a devastating tsunami 800 years later [Acc. to Chaos theor it is possible.... although it is least probable... It is possible.. so nothing TOTALLY WRONG About it ]
> -Poovaragan(actually saved kamal unknowingly—when poovaragan enters kamal and asin were caught by those manal kollayargal.There poovaragan distracts the gang helping kamal to escape),
> – Avatar Singh(gave way to Fletcher to escape in the airport unknowingly),
> – Japanese(saved govind from fletcher,he knows he is saving but he doesnt know about the play and was there only for revenge),
> – Kallifulla and family(saved govind unknowingly)……..
> -Vincent is a dalit leader of a lower caste( the so called ) but saved an Iyengar Girl ……and at the end becomes the con of the Iyengar Paati !!
> – If Shingen Narahashi’s sister was not killed, Fletcher could have killed govind and used the virus for wrong purpose..
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> This is based on Chaos Theory..!!!!!
>
> It is marvellous that THALAIVAR Kamal has used such a device in Abhoorva Saghodhararghal, way back in 1989. To kill Delhi Ganesh, for those of you who do not remember… yet another Eg. of Chaos Theory And butterfly Effect !
>
> The plot concept of Dasavadhaaram is logically explained by a machine used by Him in His own screenplay back then too, before 20 Years!! Be it a coincidence, or He possibly had that in mind as an inspiration, it amazes me!!

hey one has to take birth to make such record. this is not possible with any indian actor just to think about such a story. if you are reviewing the movie first you should be excellent in ‘chaos’ theory explained in the movie. If you are excellent then you know how the movie has clearly explaining the theory. I bet no one can explain so clearly with such a marvellous screenplay. I believe the person who posted the review is not a neutral person. He is not looking things from neutral state. i can bet that no one can do such effort at this age. So better mind your words before reviewing.

This review best fits the movie.
GREAT REVIEW man!…
Hats off!

The movie is splendid and spectacular. Each and every frame has been crafted as well an architect would do. Minow flaws of makeup can be forgiven for the fact that even if four kamals were there, the scene makes us feel that they are different actors.

Marvellous attempt by kamal.

Good movie!

Kudos to the team!

I Like Joe’s comment. Still i couldn’t come out from perarasu’s Palani movie….. He is producing one more thuthani. Only god can help.
(Dasavatharam : yet to watch)

Dasavatharaam reminds us of all the weird things crazy people do just to get noticed or make it to the Guiness Book – eating 500 burgers, standing upside down for two days, walking backwards for three weeks, dancing on a buffalo’s back, fighting with a donkey or some other equally silly antic. Kamal Haasan tries a similar attention-grabbing gimmick – for the first time, 10 different roles in a movie. So what? It’s still a lousy movie and overall freak show.

Awesome movie.. dasavatharam..

Chaos Theory was one of the themes in this movie. Everything affects everything. No matter how small of an event, it can still have a huge impact. Someone said the 12th century flashback was pointless. I am sorry my friend, but it is vital to the Chaos Theory theme. The huge idol of Perumal dropped into the ocean in the 12th century BC affected the tectonic plates just a little slightly. After almost 3000 years, the tectonic plates shifted enough to cause an earthquake, which subsequently caused the Dec.26th South Asian Tsunami. This tsunami caused enough sea water to submerge the deadly biochemical that Fletcher releases. I hope you remember that sea water is in fact salty water (NaCl water). Hero Kamal said they would need mountains of NaCl if the biochemical was released, and that mountain of NaCl came in the form of the tsunami. All the little details that happened throughout the course of the movie ultimately brought the biochemical to the shores of the sea. Also, it was fate that brought Kamal and Asin to the seashore of the same beach scene in 12th century BC. Because they were at a historical place, Boovaragalam was there to stop the sand-stealers from destroying the historical area. This in turn allowed Kamal+Asin to escape and allowed Boovaragalam to subsequently go to his enemy’s house to subsequently save his children.
The value of each individual is a second theme found in the story. Everyone has the potential for change to happen (chaos theory). Like, Boovaragalam (i know wrong spelling) said, we are all heroes, some of us just choose to live like vermin. This same character also rebutted the sand-stealer’s offensive statement that his lower class people can not read. Boovaragalam shows example of all his people that can read, he even introduces one of his people who is a poet. When the poet finishes and one of the people in his group say all of us can now read, Boovaragalam admits he is illiterate. But then his friend makes a beautiful comeback for him, when he says Boovaragalam is a genius without even having to read. That scene really made me feel for those who put down others in society based on caste or education level. The scene showed how important every person is, no matter how literate or how rich or how high class a person is. We are all equal in god’s eyes. Boovaragalam doesn’t think twice about risking his own life to rescue his enemy’s children. Unlike others who were not in the right place to save the children, Boovaragalam was. The scene showed the power each individual possesses.
Now, on to the many many many fine details…
Fletcher shows his bad-****** attitude a lot, did you see him flip off the security camera? lol
The lion statue on the sea shore appears in the 12th century and in present times. Old Asin killed herself on the head of this lion, present Asin hits herself on the same lion.
In the scene where Old Kamal is dropped into the ocean with the idol, a little of his blood triggers the senses of a shark. The shark of course eats him, except for his hand, which is why there is only the bones of a hand that remains on the statue after the idol washes ashore after the tsunami.
The hordes of birds that fly over Fletcher when he is alone with the idol on the construction building indicates the impending tsunami.
I have written all of this based on only seeing it once. There is a lot more that should be added once I see it again. Plus, I did forget some details here and there as well. As I hope you can see, the powerful story and the important lessons that are taught throughout the story really over power the \”obvious\” makeup and \”PS2\” graphics.
If you watched the movie for super amazing makeup, go look at a plastic surgery magazine. If you watched the movie for amazing graphics, go watch Transformers. If you want a good entertainer for 3 hours that also has a great story and important lessons without being preachy, then please, go watch DASAVATHARAM!!!
btw, awesome background music and I loved Oh Oh Sanam and Mukunda Mukunda.

http://www.southside.in/301/Dasavatharam-Demystifying/

oh! boy your prediction came true

Dasavatharam – Kamal originality missing -I have watched these kamal movies many many times . Some of the movies I watched many times were Apoorva Raagangal, Avargal, 16 Vayathinile , Ninaithale Inikkum ,Varumayin Niram Sigappu , Saagara Sangamam, Raja Paarvai, Ek Duuje Ke Liye, Moondram Pirai, Saagar,Kalyanaraman,Swathi Muthyam ,Punnagai Mannan,Indian,Guna ,Thevar Magan, ,Apoorva Sagodharargal, Michael Madhana Kamarajan ,Avvai Shanmughi,Thenali,Panchathantiram,Anbe Sivam,Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu.- I will not see Dasvatharam for second time as Kamal’s originality is missing. Michael Madhana Kamarajan was lot better.

A quality movie whose standard is above then all other indian movies. 10 roles played by Kamal and Graphics are excellent. The first 10 minutes and the last 10 minutes are mind blowing (Has given much better than indian standards).The film misses and lacks only in Music and BGM.

Guys,

First understand the concept of Chaos theory, then watch the movie..I do agree make up and music are not meeting the expectations.. but it is overall a good movie. Kamal had really set a new trend to Indian cinema in Technical aspects especially stunts. The characters are not created to do 10 roles. Each character is interlinked with one another hats off to Kamal’s guts. This kind of movie is the first in Indian cinema and this will be the future. Time will answer this. And do not use your local languages in reviews (it shows what kind of person you are).

it’s not the story and the concept that irks me.
It is the treatment of that concept.
you can have the best concepts in a movie, but when it is touted as an Entertainer, the makers better stick to entertainment principles!

in Dasa, there are hidden gems, but without proper screenplay and music they remain hidden.

BABA – most wonderful vedanta concepts.
Highest philosophies of life were told in 3 hrs timeframe.
Result?

I liked baba personally, though, since the soul was there.
In Dasa, with all the slapstick comedy he missed the soul.

Hi….
Its a waste movie…full time and money waste…another Baba!!
I dont understand why kamal hasan made this movie???.

I am a hard core fan of Kamal.. I have few questions to be clarified by those who says Dasa is a hit..

1. Why was a scene where a row boat carrying perumal and Kamal involved graphical crap? It could have been beautifully shot in a beautiful real river?

2. If u observed kaifulla khan and Govind’s scenes..you could very well see kaifulla khan moving with no synch to the rest of the characters..again a crap w.r.t graphics..

3. one comedy…when Avtar singh is shot by
Fletcher, Krishnaveni runs to protect the idol of Perumal.

4. in one shot Fletcher is surrounded by police helicopters in a huge building and teh next shot shows Fletcher standing in beachside ready to fight with the japanese kamal.

5. the climax shows a Tsunami afftected city, with many dead and lot destroyed and Kamal and Krishnaveni express their romance with each other…

6. A monkey that cannot distuingish between a choclate and a bioweapon, types the password of a safe which is just a four or five digit numeric code… even yahoo and gmail recommends complex passwords, but bio-scientists in US still preffer four digit codes?

7. Imagine teh comedy if george bush says he would like to meet manamohan singh and karunanidhi…also when Mr.Bush stands up to address the crowd..the BGM plays “Ulaganayagane tune”…wah..kya baat hai…

Ah..these were just few of the flaws in the movie….

10 of my frieds and myself watched the movie together on teh first day and we kept talking about the flaws the movie till 3 am in the night…

My comment: One of the worst high budget movie i ever watched….

@MAHE’s comments: “The huge idol of Perumal dropped into the ocean in the 12th century BC affected the tectonic plates just a little slightly. After almost 3000 years, the tectonic plates shifted enough to cause an earthquake, which subsequently caused the Dec.26th South Asian Tsunami. ”

Mahe…. I dont know whether to Cry or Laugh at this…. Who said that the tectonic plate got shifted due to the perumal statue.. Do u really know how big a tectonic plate will be?

The movie can be summed up as nonsensical & disrespectful. It was nothing more than a one-man play stretched for 3 torturous hours!
Nonsensical bcoz a white guy is running the streets of Tamil Nadu and is on a killing spree. If RAW functions the way it is depicted, no wonder even the Parliment of India was almost blown up. Too many loopholes in the plot, too many stereotypical characters, clumsy characterization, screenplay & story. The movie would’ve been better off with 1 hour less duration and less by 7 characters (Fletcher, Kalifulla, Vincent, Old Lady, Bush, Japanese & Avatar). Next time he should start wearing some Halloween masks and save the 4 hrs of makeup. He also has to stop creating caricatures of non-Tamil ethnic groups. A stripper Mallika is unnecessary and so were Jayaprada and KR Vijaya. He’s got to look at the mirror and understand that his ego is getting bigger than his intelligence. I’m surprised to see that the fans who posted at this site almost feel obligated to praise & defend him and guilty if they didn’t! That’s a perfect illusion and ego massage that Kamal Hassan can never have enough of.

The movie is disrespectful bcoz the handling of the idol since it leaves the procession is the most disgusting and disrespectful depiction of a Hindu god on the Indian screen by an Indian protagonist. I think Kamal Hassan definitely deserves a name in the record books for that notoriety. I dare him to try the same scenes with a Koran or a Bible and would like to see how long can he survive as a “ualaga nayagan”?! Try dumping sand on them or holding them next to a dirty “sauchalyam”, throw them to somebody else 15 feet away or talk about ripping of a few pages to reveal the vial. Let’s see how his ogling non-Hindu fans would react.
The director is a buffoon and he seems more than happy doing the film rather than the subject! Kamal, try the same nonsense with Mani Ratnam…no wonder there was never another Nayagan that fetched him a National Award. He should not be allowed to the release the Hindi version.

Hi

Couple of remarks about the reviews from Vijay and Tamizhan.

Vijay,

Clearly you have kept ‘Chaos’ central to the theme of the story and reviewed the entire movie keeping the theory central.
Nothing wrong with that, except for the following facts:-
1) The interconnectivity of ‘Chaos’ to real life is an abstract phenomenon, and the theory hinges on the improbable.
2) Trying to connect seemingly disconnected events through a complex web of equations is best left to the scientific realm. I still believe that the movie massacred the theory.
3) You seem to be primarily interested in depicting the relevance of the characters. Even if they play any role, it seems to me that their singular function is to aid/save Govind. Even if this were the case, surely less talented actors than Kamal could have portrayed the same?
While Krishnaveni Patti and Poovayagan are amazing tributes to Kamal’s versatility, Khalifullah, Bush and Fletcher were grossly inadequate in every sense.

Tamizhan,

The reason Kamal uses the idol of Perumal and not the “Bible” or “Koran” is to ensure relevance to the plot. Why would you bring up that point unless you are as communal as some of the characters the movie parodies?
In fact, the primary audience for Kamal, despite his claims of being ‘Ulaga Nayagan’ would still be in India where the largest resident population is still Hindu. I think it takes a lot more guts to depict the scenes using a Hindu idol than it does with symbols of other religions. Moreover a large percentage of the world population is Christian, but that didnt stop the making of ‘The Da Vinci Code’ did it?

Communalism and strife are the principal examples of cause- and- effect.
Or in Mr. Vijay’s words- the probable parts of an improbable whole.

@Kiran Ramaswamy
Thamizhan has every right to feel the movie hurt his religious sentiments.The constitution has given this happy right while it has not given the right to kamal to hurt other’s religious beliefs.
Even Da vinci code was banned by many states following protests.When Cartoonist somewhere around the world depicted something against a community you saw the repercussions. Does that mean that anything anyone says (only) against hinduism must be tolerated as doing otherwise is communal? Or that Kamal is so intelligent that you assume what he does is right? Please shed your share of hypocrisy and see from all angles.

The movie is so excellent. its not a good coment about the movie. only kamal can do these type of ten different characters. he is really LOKANAYAKUDU and song really suits to him

Thamizhan is right… not only in this movie but in may tamil movies the believes of hindu people and hindu gods are taken for granted.. as rightly said by Thamizhan.. if similar things are done for any other religion the movie would have rever allowed to be screened… very true..

Though the review is bit hard written, we need to accept substance of the message. The movie takes takes you nowhere. Do we need a kamal hassan for such movie? Indisputably it is a rajnikanth movie & we dont expect such things from kamal, who made brilliant movies like anbe sivam, maha nathi etc. Above all the make up of many characters looks so rubbish.

Well…like most others I too was waiting feverishly for d release of Dasavatharam…and eagerly buked tickets 2 watch it in Satyam….After seein d film I came out very much disappointed…The film was a great success for Kamal for his numero uno performance and for athiests but i feel dat sentiments of Hindus was greatly overtaken…The film was more like anti-Hinduistic rather than anti-God…Some of the questions he raised in d film were foolish and it was transparent that Kamal had more technical knowledge rather than Spiritual one…..and his very questioning of the presence of God esp the Hindu ones makes me suspect whether Kamal is goin 2 plunge himself into political arena and the portrayal of some big shot politicians may support ma theory!!!!
Kamal…..
u have made all the believers of God disappointed…..:(
Speakin abt d chaos theory one can only feel that it has been used with little effect and poor understanding….And the explanation(not in d film but) that the drowning of the Lord’s idol triggered d tsunami after 800 yrs is ridiculous…It is agreeable dat each and everythin in dis world is acting upon each and everythin in d world is true but a single statue triggering a mass tsunami as it was sounds really funny….It was scientific but not dat scientific!!!I adore Kamal 4 his acting but no one cud hv done his role but overall d story lacks d punch!!!

You are on the money! That said, I would still say it is a movie that is atbest watchable once. The story line is fine and novel – a racing thriller. Kamal should have done away with the “makeup” crap. Looks like “celluloid cartoons”. He could have differentiated the characters thru mannerisms – like in Michael Madana Kamarajan or for that matter how it was done with less expense in Navarathri by Sivaji. Of the ten characters, the first avatar is good; Scientist is fine. The RAW agent is fine. Fletcher – the villain acting is fine but you need to put up with the make up. While the dialog delivery of the character against sand mafia is good, a normal make up would have suited the character much better. In all, a good story line and a racing thriller was spoilt by the ego-maniac – makeup buffoon.

I agree the movie has flaws and lacks quality. but believe me no other India actor could ever match up to him and the risk and efforts he takes. If you can make movies such as om shanti om and murder big hits.. I know the standard and the expectation of the reviewers.. God save you guys…

Mahe ur review s absolutely great. Hats off to u

Hi Guys

Special Mention: Messrs Shiva and Joe

Thank you for your valuable remarks. My hypocrisy is measurable unlike yours which seems to be frightfully intolerant.

Your arguments on the contrary are weak as well.

To elucidate:- If Da Vinci Code was banned in several countries, you would realise that all of these pay an unnecessary obeisance to the papacy.

That in itself is the hypocrisy that you are a part of.

To further elucidate, let us consider the fact that Kamal’s atheistic stance is unacceptable. If that be the case, it would become impossible to make anything without affecting “religious” sentiments.

Why does your belief hinge on what an actor portrays on the screen? If indeed they do, they are extremely weak sentiments and very possibly the cause for communal bias that Kamal rightly ridicules in every one of his movies.

Anyway, these deliberations are pointless if viewed from any point outside the movie. If you guys are so high-strung, perhaps you should consider the fact that the interpretation of the movie on it’s theistic/atheistic stance is pure rhetoric. The perception purely depends on the audience.

No one does it to u like kamal! Man really knows how to drive a nail into the coffin of a producer and piss on it.

Why they ever let him on ego trips like Alavandan, dasavatharam or hey ram, heaven alone knows.

1. Baba didn’t fail commercially because Rajini was speaking about something that was close to his heart. Baba failed because most people have learnt to take things at so much face value that they found it incredulous that a man could be 2000 years old.

I mean, think about it. Some of the most impactful films ever made were because they were close to the filmmakers true passions. I hardly see why such passion cannot translate onto an audience unless – UNLESS – it is too “out of the ordinary”.

And an audience who cannot accept it is more a reflection of people’s inability to accept unique thoughts, and hardly a reflection of the thinker.

2. Kamal, be he athiest, agnostic, anti-semetic, or pious – the very fact that he can openly view such a thing from different angles is a credit to him.

In an industry where a film seems to be judged more on HOW MANY PEOPLE BOUGHT TICKETS… and less on its artistic value, the very fact that a guy would bother to risk telling a story that brings about the exact reaction as on this page, is an example of courage – even if only a little. It seems to be far more courage than the fools who slunk in a corner, and come out to throw a rotten tomato just because somebody is trying to do something original.

The thing is, it doesn’t matter if you succeed at an original work, or fail at it. If you at least tried, that deserves credit.

So, stand back a little, and think about what you’re doing with your own lives. People go to enormous lengths, placing such intense passion into the films that are most loved, and simultaneously most hated. Stand back and think, before you run the risk of being just a number on a meaningless vote. That is not what life is about.

sir i think ur a blind man.. u blind man first go and do the operation..if u want money i will throw you up beggar.. my friends movie in two words simply superb.. best movie off the tamil industry.. 100/100

Oh, and 3. If trying to make a different film is now the new classification of egotism (just cause you won’t conform to the usual braindead drivel that’s sure to be a hit), then you folks have twisted reality enough to choke yourselves blue.

Trying something that runs the high risk of being a flop IS NOT A SIGN OF EGOTISM. And if people keep giving him money, it’s most probably because some rich fellas know that money isn’t what it’s all about in the end. Ever consider that? No.. of course not.

you arrogant DP.If you don’t how to review,then just s(h)it quiet.

I really liked Vijay’s comment… i dint see the movie yet.. but my friends told me that Vijay’s comment is the best suited one. I appreciate the way he has explained his views and theories. I believe even Kamal cannot make such an attempt to explain it to audience. great job Vijay.

Friend, please check the movie Butterfly Effect. you will understand vijay’s comment and Dasa better.

Welldone Kamal, he once again proved his movies are not for general public but people of high thinking. which usually happens in holywood movie.

i will write my view after seeing the movie soon.

But this is not even an intelligent film! its script is as bad as its makeup and acting.

Sloppy and unreal.

I almost couldn’t wait for the movie to end. Too many too obvious plot twists, too many shoddy characters, too much screwed up graphics. Songs sucked. I should have gone to the movie in a segway

Mr. Tamizhan:

Are you people believers of Hinduism??

What is the essence then?? It tries to find the divine in everything, right from the most insignificant of objects to the most wondrous… That is the essence of all vedic works.. Rudram talks about the lord being in everything and it gives a huge list of things where God is abundant…

And what did Prahalatha believe? He says that God is as much a part of a deity as he is a part of a pillar… And if that is to be believed, stamping your own slippers is a crime, because God is in there too… I dont believe that by showing things like throwing the statue or by drowning it in mud, he desecrated Hinduism… That shows the shallowness in your thinking… Or it means that you yourself are contradicting the beliefs set forth by Hinduism…

You know who the desecrators of Hinduism are.. The people who fight in the name of God… Take lives in the name of God.. Because God never said that… All what God has shown is the path of kindness… And those people violate the path that God has set forth before them… Kamal never wanted people to fight… His previous movie “Anbe Sivam”.. Well the title says it all… I find him more pious than you people who think the idol is God…

Well… “Kallai mattum kandal kadavul theriyathu… Kadavul mattum kandal.. Kalladi theriyathu…”
Neenga ellam verum kalla pathuttu kadavulnu nambureenga… Kadavul vera engayo irukkaru… Primarily… Nallathu pannuravanga manasule irukkaru… And athu theriyama periya Hinduism defenders mathiri stunt kamikkatheenga…

Thanks, actually i had plan to see this movie.but after read these comments now i decided not to go.Thank you guys for my savings.I better hang with my gf.

Sri,
Let me get your comments first. Save your preachings and sycophancy when u meet Kamal in person. I don’t need to hear u gloat about what Kamal did in his previous movies. And for dumb-wits like u, here’s an eye-opener: The song that u mentioned is is full of hypocrisy for the character of Ranagaraja Nambi. If he believed in what he preached then Y didn’t he invoke the name of Siva…unless that character believes that Siva is not worthy enough. The King was stupid to have such a view but by being adamant, the priest was nothing but a greater fool. The context and the scene was not one of spirituality but that of politics, get that right first. And for you, oh saint, who believes that God resides everywhere would you start praying to a stinking stone where a dog has just pee’d! Idols are symbols of reverence just like holy books are for other religions. Above all, u still did not answer my question, could Kamal Hassan dare to use a subject/plot where a Koran or Bible is desecrated and would he have gotten away with it?

Kiran Ramaswamy,
You are another “enlightened” soul on this forum. Here’s some enlightenment for you. The over-smart Kamal Hassan “wrote” the story, it’s a fiction. So yes, you can always come up with a “plot” where the religion’s holy text can become relevant. My main grudge is not his beliefs bcoz he himself is confused if he wants to be an atheist or a believer. Ever wonder Y these kind of questions never arise when u watch a Rajni movie – an actor who is only about star power. Bcoz he is respectful of the sentiments of the believers and non-believers and does not include or associate with such topics. That shows his elegance, maturity & professionalism right there. Not that I’m a die-hard fan of his either but on this subject he is head-and-shoulders above this idiot. Likewise, my belief and faith is not dictated by a movie or an actor but to use the artistic liberty to infringe on my liberty deserves a kick in the rear. Ever wondered Y his Muslim and Christian characters in his movies are moderates and projected as innocent victims…food for thought! And don’t keep digressing by mentioning the DaVinci code. I know a Tamil Catholic who made sure that he watched the Passion of the Christ but felt it inappropriate to watch the DaVinci Code bcoz it bordered on blasphamy. I didn’t question Y is he feels offended based on a movie bcoz I could relate to that. More importantly, the plot of that movie (which supposedly a section of South France believes) was clear and loud in that questioned the Christian beliefs…unlike this nut bag who in the name of reaching a record wanted to generate controversy and desecrate idols to garner attention.

Thank god for those who don’t feel the self-righteous indignation of being “offended” by a movie.

Mr. Tamizhan

Thank you for you ‘enlightening’ words. And I would like to return the compliment to you in full. You are as much an ‘enlightened’ soul as I am.

A few comments however would not go amiss.

Firstly, why on earth would you compare Rajnikanth and Kamal Haasan? Their movies cater to different kinds of audiences and I’m sure we can appreciate that.
As to the reason why Rajni Kanth doesn’t prefer to do these kind of films is simple. Should he make a film like this one or any other one that borders on the question of belief, he would lose a large segment of the populace that worship the ground he trods on.

As to your communal stance you seem to be hell bent on proving time and again what I had earlier written. Why does it bother you how the other characters are portrayed? Would you have been happier had the protagonist been an anti-semitic or a christian?

I think we have digressed far enough from the theme of the story as it is. Our reviews reflect the kind of beliefs we have and let’s leave it at that.

In the beginning Kulothunga chola throw away the idol into ocean and in the end idol comes to shore and an idol of a chola king washed away by tsunami. Man thinks he can destroy god and achieves it in his small lifespan to some extent like EVR. But the concept of God Rebounds blatantly on face man faces powers beyond him. So many interesting points to cherish and remember though movie is not upto expectation still kamal has explored some new areas and ideas and tried to show it to ordinary people in their own language.

I read the link and I did not like the review
It is not fit to be called one.

DASAVATHARAM is the BEST TAMIL FILM .dp ur comments are worst.ayiram kaigal maraithalum DASAVATHARAM vetri i maatra mudiyathu.DASA is an excellant film i ever seen in my life.

All you people say Dasavatharam is a bad movie to watch, I have only word to say, FOOLS.

Kamal’s this movie is again not a choice of MASSES. This movie is made for CLASSES. I strongly agree that he fails attract common people by again putting more efforts on acting rather than glamor.

Ten things to notice in this moview:

1. Must watch Kamal’s acting skills to carry ten different roles. He showed different body language for each different role. TOO GOOD.

2. An art of learning and speaking fluent American accent.

3. The role of Naidu and old lady was outstanding.

4. Effort to show 8 feet Kamal Hasan.

5. Speaking different Tamil accents fluently.

6. Attempt and effort to show effect of Tsunami on a Indian movie.

7. Better than other crap and senseless Indian movies.

8. Amazing picturization to show 12th century.

9. Less songs in the movie.

10. Above all, this movie is a treat to Indian cinema and lesson to other actors to do different roles in their life.

Nish

Interesting remark to make on a forum like this one. So basically what you’re saying is this:-

If X likes Dasavatharam he/she is NOT a fool
If X dislikes Dasavatharam he/she is a fool

Wonder how you made it through high school with logic like that.

There are so many people who have critiqued this film and several of them have expressed favorable opinions.

Coming to your points, I see that you have made a hash of your reasoning as well. If you want the forum to be impressed by the fact that you have meticulously pointed out TEN points to drive home some metaphorical significance we thank you for the effort.

As regards the points that have been made:-
1)Less songs in the movie- What an earth shattering reason to recommend a movie to someone
2)Better than crap and other senseless movies:- Im sure it’s better than crap, but i wonder what you mean by other senseless movies..??( Perhaps you mean those that have MORE songs in them??)
3) Effort to show 8 foot Kamal Haasan-
Yeah with Graphics and Animation companies no longer belonging to the stone age i think something like that would be remotely possible.

If you are going to review the movie, kindly stick to facts and refrain from making remarks that ill befit your so called adherence to the CLASSES.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afmc6FeN-hM

ulaganayagan’s stink…

Rightly written, I hated the movie. Everything seemed so stupid. I couldn’t believe that Dr. Kamal could come up with such a stupid film. I felt very much irritated by Asin’s character. There were moments when i wanted to walk out of the theater!

who in the world posted that review above well all I can say you sound like a grade 2 kid who didnt get the movie, so all I say is I have some movies for you to watch , watch our local spidermans kuruvi and supermans Arasangam and enjoy maybe the day you grow up you can watch Dasavatharam and comment on movies like that ok till then get lost from sites like these

the revenue crossing the mark received by shivaji goes to prove that the movie is a blockbuster and all these reviews has turned the tables into publicity…and guess who is having the last laugh! tee hee

Guys lets be more open to creative Ideas.
We alway praise hollywood cinema for creative ideas then why dont you accept it in Indian cinema …?

//Do u really know how big a tectonic plate will be?//

Hi nithin

If you can accept chaos theory about butterfly wing flap creating cyclonic storm as per chaos theory then a small perumal statue can cause a tsunami. (that too over a period of 1000 years probability increases).

Mythological Analogies
1.Matsya(macha) avatar- Rangaraja Nambi- Man in the sea

2.Vaamana avatar – Kalifullah Khan – viswaraoopa – Height Matters

3. Varaaha avatar – Balram Naidu – Savior- “BEARING” Responsiblity to save ‘whole world’

4. Narashima avatar- Shingen Narahashi(=scramble of the word ‘Narasimha’) – A killer killing with his own hand – martial arts. A teacher to Prhalad(his daughter!!!). Comes to kill Fletcher.

5. Krishna avatar – Vincent – Black, saving a girl from group of land robbers(Gouravas) with 5 educated men around him. etc…

6. Ram avatar – Avatar – Life is his “WIFE”

7. “KOORMA” avatar- BUSH- Mediating War Between (__& __)

8. “MOHINI” avatar – Krishnaveni Paati- Mohini means lady

9. Parasuram avatar – Chris Fletcher – A Killer

10. Kalki avatar – Govindraj Ramasamy – Hero of the Kaliyug – Saving the current world from danger

Hey all….

Movie is awesome….good attempt by Kamal…
The First scene itself is enough for the film…superb taking…..and settings too…Everything is fine story is little bit complex but good narratio …and Rajnambi,Punya Koti’s Roles are powerfull …He Nicely inserted the characters…very good movie..
Worth Watching….
Far Better than many Hindi movies.. and NRI stories…

Good Experiment….By Kamal…

REally Kamal IS

LOKA NAYAKUDU

UNIVERSAL HERO

I am a Kamal fan. But still after seeing the movie, I came out with lot of disappointment. There was no story at all. Even it is there, it is very confusing! In fact the performance by Kamal without the much hyped makeup is better like Naidu and the Iyengar. It is very difficult to understand why Kamal wastes lot of energy and money putting himself into different characters rathar than displaying his own acting. Yet I will watch the movie couple of more times.

Hey Desi Pundit, I do appreciate that everyone have the right to comment on the Movie. But what made you bring Rajinikanth into the review of Dasavatharam. It just shows, without Rajinikanth, even a Kamal Movie’s review will go un noticed. Grow up desi pundit.

The film is really wonderful.kamal is trying to take the tamil films to international standards.lets encourage his great efforts..in a nutshell, its a holywood movie in tamil…

Kamal takes Gulti ass!

Partir,
Hope you will enjoy the show man. Your ignition becomes forest fire. At least you got frequent visitor to your site.

I saw the movie. Its worth, watching for one time
Technically Kamal has set a milestone to southern cinema. Graphics are not comparable to Hollywood’s best movies. But, as good as Hollywood movies. Hope new directors will follow Kamal.
Its not stinking as the site says.

I don’t think we need to be religious defenders. Because he never showed any disrespect to god or idol. He is telling about a situation. Not necessary to take into heart, thinking that how a situation can come like that.
Some one said Hinduism has been taken for granted. That is happening in Ramanarayanan’s movies. God will come directly and rotate villain’s head 10 times. Stretch his tongue and finger for 10 feet, kicks on his back and so on. Other religion will laugh at us.
Here we should ask the directors.

Some flaws are there in this movie of course.
- No European can run in any Indian streets with killing spree
- Title or 10 roles are not necessary for this Theme (as it suites in Micheal madhana kama rajan). He could have taken two or three roles. Other roles could have done by different people. Think!, if a real European did the Fletcher’s role, it could have thrilled more
- Songs are telling you to go out
Apart from this he is telling good things to society.

- Believe in god. But fighting or killing in god’s name is madness
- Untouchability should not be there.
- Keeping suspicion on some community is not fair. Be friendly to every one.

These are really good things to appreciate right? Don’t ask who he is, to tell this on screen.
It’s great, if it reaches at least few people who are really dealing with these issues.

All together, no one needs to run away. You should see once at least.

Dasavatharam – A new avatar of Tamil cinema

vijay gave a great sucking movie this summer “KURUVI”…… total disaster for tamil cinema… “DASAVATHARAM” uplifted the tamil cinema within few days after that sucking “KURUVI” has been taken from the theaters… vijay sucks

The simple fact is that you can’t make a movie that would be appreciated by everyone. There is a section of crowd that always look for loopholes in a movie. Come on guys grow up, Kamal is someone who knows his job. His versatile performance can never go unnoticed.

Learn to see a movie as a whole and judge it. Tell me any movie, I will pinpoint the loopholes in it.

and for what it’s worth, Ill tell you what i think the ten avatars were:

1.Nambi : Osama bin Laden
2. Poovaraghan : Rajinikanth
3. Kaifullah Khan : SRK
4. Avatar Singh : Amitabh Bacchan
5. George Bush : George bush/ some disney executive he met
6. Shingen Narashi : Sony pictures
7. Christian Slater : Some Fox/ WB guy he met
8. Balaram Naidu: Common or garden telegu film producer/ Balakrishna
9. Krishnaveni patti: The Tamil film industry
10: Govind ramaswamy : Me.

Kamal has delivered a splendid performance
and which actor can do 10 roles to perfection atleast in india.Atleast for that his efforts need to be appreciated.

Though the movie s not as good as the hype was , it still s good ….n thousand times better than wat rajni chucked out as sivaji….

Hi guys,
Very interesting rhetoric. But one thing is sure, this blog shows most of us did not grow up enough to appreciate this great effort. Kamal did not believe in flesh of shreya as a plan B as in Sivaji. I watched the movie in Sheffield, UK. Theater was houseful. I did not even see this response to Sivaji.Great satisfaction in most of the people’s face at the end of the movie. In this moment of time, Kamal won the majority, I strongly believe.

The movie is quite opposite against the comments which ever is pulished here. I am really wondering to see that kind of comments for such a great Movie.
Wow! Again Great Commitment from Kamal Hasan.
Excellent Movie, Awsome Screenplay, Great Team Work.
Hats of Kamal Gee.

The Kamal we all have come to admire and cherish over time is the perfectionist and realist (unless subject is a comedy) who eschews all filmy super hero and commercial stereotypes in his movies e.g. Mahanadhi, Thevar Magan, Anbe Sivam and even Virumaandi. But I believe he also has this other side which compels him to experiment irrationally, egged on by his maniacal streaks i.e. ego, megalo et al. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but do harbor a fear that this movie may have fallen victim to such a streak that has given us all at least one mediocre fare yet i.e. Aalavandhaan.
Could it be that his obsession with screen records, multiple characterizations, self-morphing and atheistic notions has done him in to a point where story-telling and rationalistic (a small irony here, I do believe atheism is rationalistic) thoughts have taken a back seat? And did the movie get reduced to a mere costume contest featuring just one participant? No prizes for guessing who!
I’ve really got to watch it now. I’ll be going there with just one prayer in my mind- “Please prove my surmises wrong Kamal..” But then as he says – “wish there is a God” who will listen to it.

I have a good respect on Kamal he is good actor no question about that. Even I would say he is #1 actor. But frankly I could not see the movie. My question is very simple, what is that Kamal want to convey in this movie
1. He can perform well-which he has already proven, he need not do it again
2. He can make a movie like Hollywood movie – target audience is our pamaramakkal he should keep it in mind we like iddly and dosa not burger and pizza.
we do have this for fun or when we are forced to have.
3. He want to break Rajinikanth record- which is not necessary he is exceptional I am not saying he is great.

Kamal would have though that he can drive this movie alone. You should have a good team then only you can give a good movie.
Why Ranji movies are hit: he will give equal opportunity to others in the movie that is the main reason, example Raghuvaran, Sarthababu, Meena, Ramyakrishna, Joythika, Shraya were given equal opportunity that’s why Ranji movies were great hit.

Kamal is great actor, but he alone cannot make a great movie. He should give importance to other supporting actors. Once upon a time all Kamal movies are hit why, stalwart like Sridevi were there with them and they were given equal opportunity.

Kamal sir, My kind request you need to see the pulse of our audience. With the amount of effort and money spent on this movie you can give 3 very good movies. Hype alone will not work.
lets forget this movie and move on, I am sure your next movie will be an excellent one.

I went to watch the film on the first at a theatre in Birmingham, England and had to return home coz it was house full 2 hours before the show. This has never happened for a tamil movie over here. The most ive seen for Vijay of Ajith movies is 30-40 ppl. I went for the morning show couple of days later which again was almost full.

After watching the movie, I was thoroughly impressed by Kamal’s performance and came out very satisfied as the others too. Ive never commented on review b4 but this one i felt i had to. Any movie is made for entertaining the audience and if the audience come repeatedly and if the movie makes a lot of money it shows that the movie is a hit. About the movie, it does not have flaws compared to any normal Indian movie. The only thing I felt could hav been better was the graphics and make up – probably it would hav been better to hav a director like Shankar to make it perfect and grand. Whether Kamal was goin for a record or not, his performance truly shows he is the best actor in the world with his dedication to each and every aspect of all the ten roles he is played. First of all, I feel that v should be proud of having such an actor in our cinema field and boast bout it rather than writing a crap review like this. I guess the person who wrote the review was jus tryin to bring in a lot of viewers by his negative approach and abusive language. Kamal’s storyline is simple with lots of factors being highlighted such as environment, government policy, casteism, etc. The mannerisms of all the characters were perfectly differentiated which is something only greats like Sivaji and Kamal Haasan could do. I had a bad feeling bout having a Hindi Music director compose music for a tamil film and it turned out as i feared. Except for the first song, nothing else is catchy. And the background score for the villain was ok, otherwise nothing special.
A movie which every tamilian should watch and feel proud of. For all those who wrote negative comments or reviews – the movie has been running successfully worldwide and u ppl form a minority who jus like to criticize for the sake of it. V dont really care bout u ppl coz in the end its the majority tat matters and u dont belong in that category. Thank you.

Mr Pundit, I see more emotion than brain in your comment as you never really go into the basics of commenting. Its pure hatred that you potray here..as you sweep under the carpet the whole lot of other things. Don’t know if you are paid to do so..

I am a regular movie goer in my country which translates into hollywood fare. Once in awhile i watch Hindi, Tamil, Telugu movies and I find it hard to relate to entire formula of Indian film making. Be it glamorous Hindi movies or simple Tamil movies, but one thing is for sure, we (Indians) have a long long way to go before we can come out with something like Transformers or Spiderman. This is where we as the supporting entity of movie industry should play our part. Send the message, loud and clear… watch movies that break away from the tried and tested formula…and help establish a new horizon for India films.
Btw, I am not any body’s fan.. but I can’t ignore that Dasavatharam do deserve some praise atleast at some aspect of movie making.

People like Mr Pundit should do more to shift the bar. Not to break it with emotional out burst.

hey u stupid desi pundit.i think u r the largest fool in this world.i think u were not seeing the movie and simply going 2 the bathroom that’s y u were speaking shameless and brainlessly.just once u eat hajmola and then go 2 the movie u will like it like anything.
after all a rascal fellow is commenting dasavatharam. AND this movie is absolutely perfect and this is the movie made for people . the screen play is theeeeee best

I liked the movie..

Strengths – Kamal has taken 3 concepts.. Karma Cycle, Chaos theory and Dasavatharam and has presented it really well.. A bit of commercialism here and there to justify the investment.. but it all syncs in well..

For ppl who feel graphics werent to Hollywood standards.. please compare the budgets as well.. its important to check the productivity before comparing the products.. And for ppl who comment on 10 roles done by one actor.. well, the story is dasavatharam, which means 10 different incarnations of the same person..

To me the makeups were below standards.. but that doesnt make it a bad movie.. if someone can watch Lord of the Rings Part III and feel it interesting inspite of the various drags in between and in the end, i dont see any reason why this cant be interesting as well.

We should be proud that an Indian has finally attempted such a thing. Thanks Kamal..!!

For Kamal Purists, please try to understand that there needs to be trade offs sometimes to get a better production Unit.. If the commercial bits werent there, I would doubt this movie would have got a 70 crore investment in the first place.. Try looking at the attempt from a broader perspective.. The movie was just the end result!!

a film cannot compared just in terms of revenue which is just quantitative.only a qualitative analysis such as the acting , cinematography , bgm , editing wil determine whether the film is successful.dasavatharam is a superb picture can be said one of the best in asian region.it is a intellectual story which only can be penned by a brilliant person such as kamalhassan.instead of criticising the movie appreciate the painstaking process which kamal has undergone to put the makeup and also the various social religious and racial values which has been interwoven into the movie.kamal not only indian superstar but he is also the one and only ulaga nayagan.

I went from Galsgow to London to watch this infamous movie and I completely agree its full of bullshit, and the person who directed it better look for another day job. It really lets down concept of good watchfull movies..

You have outsmarted Kamal, Mr.Desipundit, with the number of avatars that you have taken here. To post a review followed by some encouraging comments, all done by yourself! A normal review wouldn’t have grabbed so much attention and generated this many responses. Nice strategy! But works for a short period. Over a period of time, people may choose to ignore you. Hope you have your homeworks done!

i spent 75 Rs for Dasavathaaram.
split up
10 Rs for first 15 min 5 Rs each for 10different characters.
15 Rs for hollywood class tsunami climax .

Actor Kamal Hassan’s quest for Oscar award is widely known; that he will stoop to any low in that direction is proved by his latest film titled ‘Dasavataram’. Having seen this film in a prominent cinema hall recently, I feel disgusted to say that the film deserves to be totally banned from public exhibition on several counts. First and foremost, the word ‘Dasavataram’ is considered sacred and very much part of Hindu culture relating to Lord Vishnu’s reincarnations primarily for destruction of evil; the word any sane man born and brought up in Hindu culture easily understands. It is ironical that this actor has dared to title his film with the noble name which invokes instant veneration and what one actually see or feel is narration of his version of events essayed in his perverted mind, in the name of freedom of expression, without caring two hoots about the impact it is going to make on public mind especially in India. This so-called versatile actor has miserably failed in his attempt to portray ’secularism’ as he supposes and understands by choosing to portray other major communities in the country like Christians, Muslims and Sikh as do-gooders and that only Hindus are religious fanatics, right from the very first frame of the film. He has further shown that individuals belonging to international communities including NRIs are bent upon leashing acts of terror on fellow human beings in other parts of the globe, for the sake of gathering wealth and in the name of science & technology. In his colossal misadventure he has even involved the current President of the United States of America by mimicry as well as the known atheist Chief Minister of Tamilnadu in his current official position, as also a fleeting portrayal of past Chief Minister Ms. Jayalalitha by showing her aerial survey of Tsunami hit areas during December 2004, all obviously for the sake of seeking cheap publicity.

The picture titled ‘Dasavataram’ is truly an example of gross misuse of freedom of expression, not confining to ethical standards expected of an esteemed actor like Kamal Hassan and his reputed team, and as such it should be banned in toto from public exhibition.

This is a great movie.
Great effort!
Everyone has worked very hard.
Speical effects are good.
Congratulations to Kamal and the Dirctor
Ravi Kumar.

Eswaran

Dasavatharam is a superb movie, probably one of the most intellectual movies ever made in the Asian region. When watching the movie, one can only appreciate & fully understand this marvellous piece of work by ditching the typical Tamil movie template, which consists of:
1. Sudden duets in unrelated settings
2. Comedian appearing out of nowhere in a separate storyline
3. Rubbish punch dialogues
4. Outrageous stunts such as flying through the air, catching bullets with their bare hands
5. Many more (Refer to Vijay’s movies post 2003)

Dasavatharam excels in various aspects. Here r several disambiguations of my review:
1.First of all is d cinematography, which was state of d art work by Ravi Varman, with various angles, lighting etc. He adds an extra dimension to a better cinematic viewing experience, with those rotations, zooms etc. He carried on d good work from Anniyan n Vettaiyadu.

2.Secondly was d BGM. Initially I was disappointed that Devi Sri did d job instead of H.Jeyaraj or ARR, but then d young man came up with a splendid piece of work, especially d background score for Balaram, Avtar, Shingen n d Beagle 2 lab, apart from d fight scenes.

3.Direction was just average, probably Kamal ghost directed d movie. KS Ravi is not a person for a movie like Dasa. Should hv approached Shankar b4 he signed up 4 Sivaji. He would hv reignited d magic of Indian/Hindustani, as he can combine class n grandeur into one.

4.Only a few songs like Mukundha, Oh Sanam n Ulaganayagan were nice. Kallai mattum had powerful lyrics,but d music was a blatant copywork. Again,Harris Jayaraj should hv been hired. Karuppanukkum should not hv been in d movie.

5.The plot was superbly constructed based on Chaos Theory. Each character had an equal importance,contrary to many ppl’s perception. They were there to express different religious viewpoints, ideologies,apart from dictating each others’s subsequent actions in d movie. However d Bush character seemed to be a mockery of d current US president.

6.The CGI was above average, although not on par with Hollywood standards. However, for an Indian movie, it’s top class. D beginning of d Tsunami, D puppet show in Mukundha song were all nice. Regarding d makeup, this I admit was a slight disappointment as Bush’s n Fletcher’s look fake, sort of an exaggeration of a Caucasian’s looks. D best were that of Poovaragan,Balaram,Nambi,Avtar n Govind. Some of d faces look disproportionate, as of Shingen n Bush, which looked 2 big.

7.Acting, I don’t hv 2 comment,was excellent 4 Kamal.He had 2 learn so many accents like d typical American,Japanese,Thirunelveli ones in a short time period,n on top of that assigning an individual voice 4 each character.Kudos 2 Asin 4 dropping her glamour girl image n trying something new.Both Kothai Radha n Aandal were exceptional.One should not blame her 4 that nuisance role as that were d requirements of d script.Napolean was good 2.

In sort, I would like to say that no one else other than Kamal can produce a movie like Dasavatharam in the near foreseeable future.It will b interesting 2 c how future multiple role movies like Kanthasamy fare in d box office.

One cannot compare Sivaji with Dasavatharam. Sivaji is just a typical good vs bad story overhyped with posh overseas locations, Shreya’s glamour etc. Dasavatharam did not exaggerate, it was d hype n general expectations which made it seem such.

My rating 4 Dasavatharam : 4.5/5. Enjoy d movie everyone.

i agree with this guy the movie is a very lousy movie and revolves unless ur a kamal hasan s fan u should forget watchin dis movie dis is a movie for and only them coz its got no story so tht he can show his talent i dont say he acted badly but the story is a one not 2 be 2 proud of

Kudos!!! The review is just what I have in mind!
That movie is a disaster!!!! a miserable experience!!! the worst three hours I ever spent !!! My poor soul was crying to relive me from that pain!!! comeplete bull s***!!!!
If I have the right words I guess I can write a saga about the three hrs I spent watching that piece of crap!!!

Name of the movie doesnt make sense either! It is a mistake to begin with!
Dasavatharam means the Tenth avatar NOT ten avatars!!!

Reading the review by this so called Hawkeye, I clearly understand that this fellow is an ardent follower of No-Brainer Bollywood movies …..and so his brain is so blunt that he cannot use it to follow the storyline of dasavatharam………

It is probably a watchable movie for those not trying to relate it to hollywood A-list movies and getting frustrated by the commercial and mediocre technical elements.
And please do not ever think of sending this as a foreign entry for the Oscars (I’m sure Kamal is not anticipating such a ridiculous move). But for a movie belonging to the vanilla Indian genre this should rank in the upper echelons. That’s about it! Kamal has done better moview with better intellectual and commercial entertainment.However Dasa is more liley to be an ego gratifying pursuit rather than a work striving for perfection,an aspect for which all his fans adore him for.

SHEKHAR :

u shd be happy that kamal hasnt claimed
that the expected 10th avathar is himself..
even if he does that.. the movie will be still screened … what he wants to do.. he will do .. and no body can stop him..
am ashamed to see the leaders of the nation r supporting these guys

This is one of the forward I got about the 10 different characters.. and below that are my comments after watching the movie..

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One thing we had noticed is why people didn’t get the real subtext and reason for the various roles and hence the title.
If you knew the real dasavatharams of Lord Vishnu and their characters you can appreciate the script more.

Let me explain, starting with the best adapted role:

1. Krishna avatar – Vincent Poovaraghavan Lord krishna is actually a dalit, he is dark-skinned [shyamalam]. He saved draupadi when she was being violated and he was the actual diplomat in mahabharatham. Lord krishna dies of an arrow striking his lower leg. Now look at how vincent was introduced.. he appears when asin is about to be molested and he saves her like draupadi. Vincent is the dalit diplomat, fights for land issue [soil issue to be exact] and dies from the metal rod striking his leg. Oh even five of vincent’s men are drugged at P. Vasu’s.. sounds familiar???

2. Balarama avatar – Balarama naidu
This is an easy given. as the name suggests and the role personifies you can easily get it.

3. Mathsya avatar – Ranagaraja nambi
nambi is thrown into water in an act of trying to save lord from being thrown into sea, though vainly. what more clue do you want?

4. Varaha avatar – Krishnaveni paatti
During the mukunda song, krishnaveni paatti does varaha avatar in the shadow puppetry. The frame freezes on it for a second. there is the clue. Moreover, in varaha avatar lord actually hides earth so as to protect life forms. Here too krishnaveni hides the germs – life form inside the statue so as to protect.

5. Vamana avatar – Kalifulla khan
remember in vamana avatar, lord vishnu takes the vishvaroopa, that is the giant form! Hence the giant kalifulla here symbolises vamana avatar.

6. Parasurama avatar – Christian Fletcher Parasurama is actually on an angry killing spree and killed 21 generations of the particular kshatriya vamsa. Hence the real KILLER… Guess what thats what our Fletcher is! He comes around with the gun [modern upgrade for axe] and kills everyone around. I have to check if he kills 21 people though.

7. Narasimha avatar – Shingen Narahashi
first of all the name itself is a play on the words singam [means lion in tamil] and narasimha [the avatar being symbolised]. Lord Narasimha manifests himelf to kill the bad guy and he also teaches prahaladha.
In the movie, he shows up to kill the killer fletcher! and is also a teacher.. Lord Narasimha had to kill the asura with bare hands and hence the martial arts exponent here.. get it?

8. Rama avatar – Avatar Singh
Lord Rama stands for the one man one woman maxim, kind of symbolising true love.. Here Avatar portrays that spirit by saying that he loves his woman more than anything and wants to live for her.

9. Kalki avatar – Govindaraj Ramasamy
As you know, the hero in kaliyug can be none other than the Kalki avatar!!!

10. Koorma avatar – Bush
This is the most loose adaptation I couldn’t clearly comprehend. But if you look at the real koorma avatar, the lord is the turtle/tortoise that helps in stirring the ksheera sagara and bringing out the amruth.
This essentially creates war among the devas and asuras. Similarly today Bush facilitates war between you know whom… May be Kamal also indicates that this avatar is a bit dumb like the tortoise…
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All these are fine, but when you watch the movie.. the masked & pixelled faces of the kamal’s avataars are not much pleasing and very much lacking in perfection. So you could easily guess.. any bad face[avataar] in the movie is kamalahaasan…. It has all ended up with atleast 6 bad or KORA AVATAAR’s… making you feel sick…

And Asin’s character[the second avataar] is the most irritating.. oops can’t take it even for 5 mins of her introduction…. It keeps you irritated all through the film whenever you see Govind character… I still could feel that irritation in my blood even after 24 hours of the movie… I get the same irritation when Goundamani screems in the screen in lot many movies in the sake of some PJ..

Avvai shanmugi’s make-up was much better, though it is now 10 yrs old.

I would appreciate the first [15 minutes] and the last [20 minutues] with the help of technology and graphics, came out good…

I donot know when tamil cinema will stop taking chasing scenes and stunt scenes on a half built multi-storeyed building…

Too much of chasing scenes… and infact has made the story NOT comprehendable..

Overall Appreciate the story and Kamal’s efforts, but screen play is not great compared to the efforts and money invested..

Romba polamba vittutaangapa…

All those who have commented that kamal has made fun of hinduism are stupids according to me.He would read more scripts than anyone else commenting here.No one in India can take a movie of such quality.According to me hats off to kamal hasan

Was a very nice reviews made by different types of ppl across locations. But hat’s off to Kamal for a wonderful experiment in creating 10 different roles.

Dont believe any one comments on the movie. Its all because of jealous. Go and watch and enjoy. You will feel it.

Geeta – For people like you they have bollywood movies. Watch only that.

If you expect the most common Vadivelu and Vivek’s Comedy in a movie put together with
few punch dialogues by our ‘Super Heroes’ of today and the most glamourous and hot angels
appearing for all ‘Kuthu’ songs and the most arrogant looking Villains with scars in their face
and screams throughout the movie with Thirupatchi Aruvaals .. The legendary “Dasavatharam”
is definitely not a movie of ur choice…
…..it shows that we have been provided with these kind of pathetic products
and nothing else to watch for and we became an addict to such stuff…….
If u are on the look out for a brain teaser and dat takes u in and
out of the movie like an exciting ride from 12th century to 21st century with cleanly
weaved characterisations u can very well go for Dasavatharam without any hesitations..
I watched chandramukhi just for the song ‘RA RA’ and thats the story is all about…I liked it….
In Dasavatharam too the story line is thin but its worth watching for many
mind blowing efforts in the movie .. which will be carved in the history of tamil movies…..Good Effort !!! ( Better dan Shivaji)

Dasavatharam is the best Indian movie I ever scene. Movie becomes special and extraordinary because of KamalHassan ji. More over nobody else can think of acting in the ten different roles with accurate voice modulation, dialogue delivery and exact body language for each and every role. Anyone can get an expensive make-up, but to impose the exact body language, voice modulation and dialogue delivery can be done only by Dr. KamalHassan. He is so much dedicated towards what he does. He loves perfection in what all he does. There he stands unique when compared to others in the Indian cinema industry. He has done the story, screenplay and dialogue by himself for the whole movie. Working on the screen play is the toughest part in a movie with 10 different roles. We can never even imagine how much hard work he has put to build this movie.

Kamal has performed thrilling fights which has not done with the help of computer graphics. All the stunt sequence in the movie is original and manual. Can we ever see any Indian actor at his age can dare to do this? Never… Only Kamal can… Make up for the old-women character took more than eight hours and George bush around 6 hours everyday and same with other characters also. He has to sit for hours after hours to get done with one make-up without shaking his face and body. There are many scenes where many roles come in the same frame; we can’t even imagine how he has done those scenes as we already know each make-up takes hours to do.

One man doing 10 different roles and writing the script and doing screenplay of his own is the first in the history of world cinema. Kamal has deserved that he is the best. In certain roles like old lady, Chinese man we couldn’t even guess that it is Kamal. While seeing the movie it is very well understood KamalHassan’s dedication towards his profession. Sorry not profession, acting is KamalHassan’s breath. He is born with lots of inbuilt talent.

KamalHassan is a make-up lover, he loves to experiment on get-ups in his movies, we can see that love, in his past movies like Indian, Avai Shanmugi ect. Which Indian actor has desires, talents and daring to do differences in each and every movie, that appreciations goes only to KamalHassan. It is possible only for an actor like him to dare such attempt to show difference and extraordinary talent in each and every movie. He has worked really hard and he has gone through lots of pain and stress both mentally and physically to bring this movie a great success. I am sure that he wouldn’t have slept from the day one till the last day of the making of movie. It is sure that Dasavatharam will set the benchmark for other Indian movies.

Now coming to the review and comments of the movie…

Ordinary group of people who loves movie with family attachment, one duet song, hero based bull shit dialogues are not happy with the movie, many have not understood the story line and blindly had given bad comments like the roles in the movie are not necessary.
Some group of people even comment on the make-up of old women and George bush stating that make-up is not up to the mark, I feel really sorry for those people because they don’t know that the make-up man is Michael Westmore, who transformed Jim Carrey into The Mask, and he is one of the nominee for Oscar awards for his past movies in Hollywood. These comments do not affect KamalHassan and his faith towards him. I request them to see the movie again try to understand it.
Putting all these aside.

Coming to the people’s comments who are in the cinema industry:

The great super star has stunned with Kamal’s performance in the movie and he has stumbled with no words when the media has asked him about the movie in the preview show. He finally ended up saying exclamatory words in his own style, “Excellent, Mind boggling, Simply Superb, Kamal rocked’.

Dr Kalainar Karunanithi says after seeing the movie “kamal – You have proved yourself as the Maestro in acting! “

KamalHassan has proved again that he is a complete actor with dedication, talent, passion and commitment towards the cinema industry.

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Real Dasavatharams:

One thing we had noticed is why people didn’t get the real subtext and reason for the various roles and hence the title.
If you knew the real dasavatharams of Lord Vishnu and their characters you can appreciate the script more.

Let me explain, starting with the best adapted role:

1. Krishna avatar – Vincent Poovaraghavan
Lord krishna is actually a dalit, he is dark-skinned [shyamalam]. He saved draupadi when she was being violated and he was the actual diplomat in mahabharatham. Lord krishna dies of an arrow striking his lower leg. Now look at how vincent was introduced.. he appears when asin is about to be molested and he saves her like draupadi. Vincent is the dalit diplomat, fights for land issue [soil issue to be exact] and dies from the metal rod striking his leg. Oh even five of vincent’s men are drugged at P. Vasu’s.. sounds familiar???

2. Balarama avatar – Balarama naidu
This is an easy given. as the name suggests and the role personifies you can easily get it.

3. Mathsya avatar – Ranagaraja nambi
nambi is thrown into water in an act of trying to save lord from being thrown into sea, though vainly. what more clue do you want?

4. Varaha avatar – Krishnaveni paatti
During the mukunda song, krishnaveni paatti does varaha avatar in the shadow puppetry. The frame freezes on it for a second. there is the clue. Moreover, in varaha avatar lord actually hides earth so as to protect life forms. Here too krishnaveni hides the germs – life form inside the statue so as to protect.

5. Vamana avatar – Kalifulla khan
remember in vamana avatar, lord vishnu takes the vishvaroopa, that is the giant form! Hence the giant kalifulla here symbolises vamana avatar.

6. Parasurama avatar – Christian Fletcher
Parasurama is actually on an angry killing spree and killed 21 generations of the particular kshatriya vamsa. Hence the real KILLER… Guess what thats what our Fletcher is! He comes around with the gun [modern upgrade for axe] and kills everyone around. I have to check if he kills 21 people though.

7. Narasimha avatar – Shingen Narahashi
first of all the name itself is a play on the words singam [means lion in tamil] and narasimha [the avatar being symbolised]. Lord Narasimha manifests himelf to kill the bad guy and he also teaches prahaladha. In the movie, he shows up to kill the killer fletcher! and is also a teacher.. Lord Narasimha had to kill the asura with bare hands and hence the martial arts exponent here.. get it?

8. Rama avatar – Avatar Singh
Lord Rama stands for the one man one woman maxim, kind of symbolising true love.. Here Avatar portrays that spirit by saying that he loves his woman more than anything and wants to live for her.

9. Kalki avatar – Govindaraj Ramasamy
As you know, the hero in kaliyug can be none other than the Kalki avatar!!!

10. Koorma avatar – Bush
This is the most loose adaptation I couldn’t clearly comprehend. But if you look at the real koorma avatar, the lord is the turtle/tortoise that helps in stirring the ksheera sagara and bringing out the amruth. This essentially creates war among the devas and asuras. Similarly today Bush facilitates war between you know whom… May be Kamal also indicates that this avatar is a bit dumb like the tortoise…

The 10th avatar is none other than the narrator of the story who happens to be the hero. This has been clearly explained in the beginning.

Just spent close to $100 for this POS movie.

Why the hell would you spend so much for any movie??????

It is very easy to sit back and criticize things…and say “it could have been done this way or that….”

Look at it as a movie, a masala movie.

Hoping that this will be a decent hit.

The movie is very disappointing.Asin’s performance is very poor.Even the much hyped makeups done by foriegn experts looks below average.In short Kamal’s Dasavatharam will be movie every Kamal fan will try to forget.But one thing I have to say is the Kamal’s dedication.That is the only thing to boast of Dasavatharam.Film will die soon in the box office.

very true comments..

tamil movies are light years behind hollywood / world movies..

all these movies are junk only… guys who talk here
should see world cinema like
1. children of heaven – best of screenplay and sentiment, emotion, love and compation
2. Rashomon – excellent screenplay, story telly, suspense
3. The seven samurai – excellent action, stunts and screen play
4. Oan Bak – Fantastic Action

or hollywood movies like
1. God Father – Acting, story screenplay, dialogue, style
2. Usual Suspects – Suspence, screenplay
3. Open Range – excellent action, story telling, style
4. Where eagle dares, guns of navoron – excellent action, screen play
5. blood diamond – action, story, love, sentiment

I can keep on listing.. you should see these movies and then read the above reivew .. you will feel the reviwer has made it very soft..

also you beleive kamal is the best actor you have ever seen.. pity on you.. you havent seen al pacino, marlon brando, kevin costner, gene hackman, robert de nero..
kamal will look like a kid in front of these giants..

kamal used to steel stories, style, tricks from world
cinema and portrait it ameturely.. if the original
creators see them they will smile through their ass..

for e.g. in Nayagan .. u claim kamals best…
have you seen Marlon brando in godfather in 70s
first see that.. then you will spit on kamals face
not being able to even imitate him properly…

this guy lacks creativity, originality and not even able to imitate… you call him genious..?

this shows how much you are ‘kinattru thavalai’
(a frog in the well).. you seen all garbage and kamal movies and it looks great…

I have seen all great movies and his movies look garbage to me…

before terming kamal’s movie as garbage you should know the fact he is been admired by every1 for they way he acted in that movie!…give kamal the way you spend to make hollywood movies…then see who’s the best….dont list the only best films there are garbages in your hollywood also…..

@Joe Comments
You joe..who do you think you are…
by criticizing kamal’s effort by comparing with others will not hide his real talent rather it shows your bull shit mind set ( some indians will always think foreign films and actors are best) dont compare anybody with anybody..
kamal…he didnt become a star by over night..there are lot of hard work behind that to reach this position..everybody has their own talent.. i hope you too have your own..
if you doubt his acting skills. just watch movies like Guna,Apporva sakothargal,Mahanathy, Anbe sivam…
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Dasavatharam…
I really enjoyed the film dasavatharam..it has many technical aspects that done with low cost and more talents.. sure this the begining of all aspects that kamal put it into dasavatharam.. as a screenplay writer, co-director, singer and list contniues…
and upcoming projects like marmayogi, maruthanayagam will also going to be hit…

after all who are you man to critize a legend..

Mahe

My comments were for those who claimed kamal movies are on par / better with hollywood movies .. earlier in this thread.

Kamal is the best actor in India, Kamal movies are the best indian movies.. know why .. rest are sheer crap..

but my argument is kamal (as he claims in one of the songs in this movie as oscar is on its way to him) is not on par with hollywood stars nor his movies..

it is he who wants to be compared with hollywood actors and movies.. he has expressed it publically…

if so .. my above critisism to be accepted..

Kamal’s This movie is Garbage.

Joe, Kamal cannot be compared to Hollywood actors not for the reasons stated above. He has to consider a lot of factors before taking a storyline or enacting a scene. There are thousands of people waiting in the queue to pounce upon him. These people are waiting for the smallest of the smallest cue for their scathing attack on him.

Even when people had no idea about the 12th century scenes, Kamal had to face lot of pressure from cases filed by these people. This is not the first time, hope you remember how Sandiyar became Virumandi. Add to it the pressures of screenplay and that of handling make-up. There are no such internal politics in Hollywood movies and people over there appreciate Freedom of Expression. And what about the money that those people can afford to spend??

To the other side, can you imagine Al Pacino or even Marlon Brando striking a fluent accent in Tamil. Have you observed the different accents in Kamal’s movies? Can you name a multi-faceted person as talented as Kamal? Why don’t you think over with an unbiased mind?

And I should say that it is TIME magazine (and not the fans) that rated Nayagan one among the top 100 movies of all time.

The film was meant for Kamal’s fans which apparently, the lot here is not.
I still wonder how easy it is for people to take a reference out of the Hollywood Movie Table every single time. Well understood is the difference in movie making in terms of technology, storyline and the screenplay.
And, accepted is the fact that most of today’s Tamil movies are more masala personified. But, does anyone still stand to write off the classy Anbae Sivam, Nayagan, Kurudhi Punal, Hey Ram, the double directive Virumaandi(completed in record 2 months time), Vaettaiyadu Vilayadu and more…??
All that said, to talk of Dasavatharam, the movie was another masala flick. It wasn’t hard to realise the difficulty that’s likely there when it comes to linking 10 characters. Obviously, the storyline and the screenplay had to be compromised here. What better could anyone have done with 10 different characters to be portrayed. Ofcourse, many of them were played just for the sake of it.
I perhaps had my expectations limited understanding the potential challenge in this case and so wasn’t put down.
Balaram Naidu, Vincent Poovaragan, Chris Fletcher were excellent. George Bush, though short, was well done. Old woman couldn’t impress with her looks changing our opinion.
The movie wasn’t bad. Atleast, that much I can stand up to justify.

It takes a quality to recognise the good amid all the bad. I’m happy I and a few here have it.
Kamal Hassan is an astute Actor-Director-Scriptor.
If anyone denies this, so be it.

My humble suggestion would be to attempt writing balanced reviews. Hope that’s not a challenge .

Superb movie. Lets wait for Marmayogi, d next big thing.

The real issue is not about whether the actor,director or any other gimmick,but something much simpler than that.the ability of the film as a whole to make the viewers identify with some characters in the film.

on that score let us look at some characters one by one
1)krishnaveni patti:what should have been a cakewalk character for kamal after his performance in chachi 420,turned out to be a grotesque mutated monster that looks like the remnants of an abortion.there is no way anyone could connect with patti ,unless your family is the descendents of frankenstein.

grotesque looking factor=100 %(
2)fletcher
with a mission to outdo krishnaveni patti.kamal goes the whole hog and unleashes his next merciless avatar on us(merciless because of the sheer pain of watching a talking grotesque white mask).to make sure that movie becomes and instant hit with the oscar committee ,kamalhassan imported talent from hollywood to use the cutting edge technology in makeup- wheat flour.to make sure he gels in the role of a ex cia agent effortlessly,he uses plenty of maida and to add originality to the character speaks the kozha kozha english which is not clear half the time.so there you have it an instant cristian fletcher made from 100%chakki fresh maida.
grotesque factor-70-80%(from some shots it appears as if his face his deformed and lacks structural integrity,may be could have used some cement and plaster of paris.)
3)govind
at last a human looking kamal who is projected as the heir apparent to einstein who comes up with amazing onliners like “south side of a north facing horse ” when he is chased by fletcher to kill him,just what a typical guy like me and you would have spoken…what the hell,thank god for that ,but latest reports suggest that he wanted to replace this character with a charcter similar to arnold schwarzenegger,but had to drop the idea due to the non avaliabity of additional maida and inability to speak arnol’s austrian english…was really furious with ravikumar for not getting additional maida for this role.

4)kanifullah khan:
kamal decides to get back at ravikumar by ,portraying a typical afghan in kamal style.stand on a 5 feet stool and apply lots of slighly baked maida flour to get that afghan look right and what do you have …..instant afghan kanifullah khan ready.to top it all and make sure people appreciate his hardwork ,he looks into the camera and hypnotises people with the tom cruise look ,but i feel a rayban glass was missing.
grotesque factor=98%(walking ,talking mountain of maida .if rumours are to believed kanifullah was supposed to be paired with mallika complete with a lip lock ,but mallika threatened to call off shooting and pack her bags,saving grace was nagesh
5)balraam naidu-by far the best and the only human looking character with makeup.
but his dialogues go through the following stage
1)at first very interesting and somewhat funny ,if you try really hard and concentrate .
2)stage of no return,when u cant understand the damn dialogue thanks to the jarring background score and his telegu accent,had he spoken telegu ,it would have been much clearer.
all in all kamal uses his superior intelligence to confuse our brain speaking in a new language-englu
6)vincent boovaraghan-was pretty good ,this character was pretty good and i feel of all characters this was well etched and the his death scenes were heart moving.
7)nambi-since kamal was the runner up in last years mr.olmpia,he decides to floor the female fans by revealing his rock chiselled body complete with a 6 pack abs .to make sure that people get to see all his well devloped muscles he lifts sri ranganathar with his bare hands .incase if you missed to watch his body in that scene dont worry,kamal turns around and gives a back shot of his well defined deltoids and lat’s..wow.and to add some manly vigour ,he roars like a lion which sounds as if he has gas trouble.latest reports indicate,kamal has 8 pack abs including his posterior.but the was able to show only 6,thank god
avataar singh-luckily since most of the face is covered with turban and hair,he adds maida in the only place left ,inbetween eyebrows and on nose.and uses his spb voice to mesmerize peopleby singing oh sanam.and kamal has patented a new technology to treat cancer .india might get the first nobel prize in medicine this year.
grotesque factor-20%(beard and all that hair saved the viewers vision from further assault)
9)george bush-after his performance ,security officials have asked kamal as a body double for bush,but had to reject as he felt that he had the responsiblity of offering more movies like 10vataram and expose people to the latest technology in film making.
grotesque factor-67% -india could have had a diplomatic crisis had bush watched this movie ..thank god he didnty watch.
10)shingen narahasi-
kamal went ot japan ,to learn japanese and speak in local japanese dialect.it seems the amount spent was in the range of 12 crores.well make technology is slighly different as they have tried using white noodles for a change and top it with some sushi as make up.
grotesque factor-99%
but if u ask me who the best character in the movie is,it was santana bharathi for trying to rape asin and put an end to her character in the film and saving people from the agony of watching junior k.r.vijaya in action again with facial actions which looks like she had a bad case of constipation coupled with piles.

all in all 10avatram must be blamed for inflation as all the maida and wheat flouru used in the film created a scarcity and the prices shot up due to scarcity.

Why should you see Dasavatharam atleast twice?
If you are a movie buff or even a casual movie goer, Dasavatharam is worth seeing twice even if you did not like it the first time. Here is what I felt after seeing the movie last night for the 2nd time.

The first time I saw I liked the movie but could not tolerate the “makeup” for various characters like Fletcher, Patti, Vincent Boovaragavan, Bush, Japanese, Habibulla and Avatar. The other 3 characters appealed to me the first time.
The second time when I watched the movie, the makeup did not bother and I was able to enjoy the dialogues and the body language of all these characters. Simply wonderful! It is just psychological. If you meet a person in real life with facial deformity – at first – we might not look straight in his face. But, once you get used to the person, the deformity or the ugliness does not matter and the person would appeal to you for who is. This is the same effect with the “madeup characters” in Dasavatharam.

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie second time and in my opinion – it ranks along Michael Madana Kamarajan or Pancha thanthiram – movies of Kamal – which you can enjoy anytime you see it. Dasavatharam has numerous little one liners – which you would obviously miss the first time. Watch the “shoe – socks” phrase. Delivery is stupendous. Kamal – Asin pair has worked out very well inspite of the age difference. Asin is simply superb.

There is no reason to bash this movie. Excellent entertainer worth watching atleast twice. Second time is when you would appreciate the movie better!

Kudos Kamalji!

Dasavtharam Smashes Sivaji in BO collection

DASA : http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2008&wk=25&p=.htm

sivaji : http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/?yr=2007&wk=25&p=.htm

you can see the collection figures of Sivaji was $3,705,252 (US Figures) or Rs. 15.8 Crore. Whereas the Box Office figures for Dasavatharam after the same time period from the same amount of territories is Rs.49.67 Crore.

This is a report for only 2 WEEKS!!!!
All the previous records smashed

Still miles to go….
don’t know how many new records going to be created!!!!

But it seems sivaji holds the record collection in Malaysia and UK

dasa- Malaysia
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/malaysia/?yr=2008&wk=25&p=.htm

sivaji
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/malaysia/?yr=2007&wk=25&p=.htm

dasa-UK
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/uk/?yr=2008&wk=25&p=.htm

sivaji
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/uk/?yr=2007&wk=25&p=.htm

You hit the nail on the head…The movie sucked bigtime….Instead of having 10 stupid makeovers Kamal should have spent some time on the story and screenplay…WTF was he thinking or has it completely lost it

DAST

Kamal Haasan has essayed his great work “Dasavaatharam”, having in mind the ten Avatars (incarnations) of Lord Vishnu.

The logic of each role in Dasavatharam is creating waves among film buffs on what basis he would have conceived the 10 characters.

If you know the real Dasavatharams of Lord Vishnu, you can appreciate the script more.

1. Krishna Avatar – Vincent Poovaraghavan

Lord Krishna is actually a dalit (sometimes called untouchables or outcasts in the Indian caste system). He is dark-skinned. He saved Draupadi (In the Ancient Indian epic Mahābhārata, she is the daughter of King Drupada of Panchāla) when she was being
violated and he was the actual diplomat in Mahābhārata. Lord Krishna dies of an arrow striking his lower leg. Now look at how Vincent was introduced. He appears when Asin is about to be molested and he saves her like Draupadi. Vincent is the Dalit diplomat, fights for land issue [soil issue to be exact] and dies from the metal rod striking his leg. Oh even five of Vincent’s men are drugged. Sounds familiar ???

2. Balarama Avatar – Balarama Naidu

This is an easy given. As the name suggests and the role personifies you can easily get it.

3. Mathsya (Fish in Sanskrit) Avatar – Ranagaraja Nambi

Nambi is thrown into water in an act of trying to save the Lord’s idol from being thrown into sea. What more clue do you want?

4. Varaha Avatar – Krishnaveni Grandma

During the Mukunda song, Krishnaveni Grandma does Varaha Avatar in the shadow puppetry. The frame freezes on it for a second. There is the clue. Moreover, in varaha avatar lord actually hides earth so as to protect life forms. Here too krishnaveni hides the germs – life form inside the statue so as to protect.

5. Vamana Avatar – Kalifulla Khan (A very tall man)

Remember in Vamana Avatar, Lord Vishnu takes the vishvaroopa, that is the giant form! Hence the Kalifulla here symbolises Vamana Avatar.

6. Parasurama avatar – Christian Fletcher

Parasurama is actually on an angry killing spree and killed 21generations of the particular Kshatriya vamsa. Hence the real KILLER… Guess what that’s what our Fletcher is! He comes around with the gun (modern upgrade for axe) and kills everyone around.

7. Narasimha Avatar – Shingen Narahashi

First of all the name itself is a play on the words Singam (means lion in Tamil] and Narasimha [the avatar being symbolised). Lord Narasimha manifests himself to kill the bad guy and he also teaches Prahaladha (a young boy and ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu). In the movie, he shows up to kill the killer Fletcher and is also a teacher. Lord Narasimha had to kill the asura with
bare hands and hence the martial arts exponent here. Got it?

8. Rama Avatar – Avatar Singh

Lord Rama stands for the one man one woman maxim, kind of symbolising true love. Here Avatar Singh portrays that spirit by saying that he loves his woman more than anything and wants to live for her.

9. Koorma Avatar – George Bush

If you look at the real Koorma Avatar, the Lord is the turtle/tortoise that helps in stirring the Ksheera Sagara and bringing out the Amrita (the drink of the gods, which grants them immortality). This essentially creates war among the Devas and asuras. Similarly today Bush facilitates war between you know whom… May be Kamal also indicates that this Avatar is a bit dumb like the tortoise…

10. Kalki Avatar – Govindaraj Ramasamy

As you know, the hero in Kaliyuga (Most interpretations of Hindu scriptures believe that our Planet Earth is currently in Kaliyuga) can be none other than the Kalki Avatar!!!

The above comment is the answer for those folls who keep yaeling and spreading a wrong message to every that there was no need for the 10 roles in the movie…and it was created

AND ON THING ABOUT KAMAL
HE MAY NOT POPULAR LIKE OTHER ACTORS..
AND PLEASE DONT KEEPSAYIN G THAT HOLLY WOOD ACTORS LIKE BRANDO, ALPACINAO

i WOULD DEFENIFTLY AGREE THAT INDIANS ARE INSPIRED BY HOLLYWOOD MOVIES..
KAMAL IS ONE OF THE BEST ACTORS, AND NOT THEEEE BEST..
bUT WVERYONE WILL AGREE THAT KAMA HASSAN IS DEFENITLE THE MOST TALENTED ACTOR AND DIFFERENT FROM OTHER IN WORLD CINEMA
SIMPLY BECOZ APART FROM DIRECTOE AND SCREENPLAY AND ETC, HE CAN ACT IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AND DIFFERENT STYLE, AND WAS ACTING HE DOES NOT WORK WITH BIG BANNERS, AND BIG DIRECTORS TO PLAY LIKE ANOTHER ACTOR…FIRST THING KAMAL HASSAN CAN ALWAYS BE A GODFATHER OR DON OR DO A TOMHANKS ROLE BUT THOSE ACTORS CANNOT DOA VIRMANDI HEY RAM AND ARE SO MANY CANT REMEMBER

An for the Ulaganayan song in the movie
Even i was shocked to see kaml doing something like this…
Please that was only to show the non kaml audence that all character was played by one man, and for god sake this the first time i have seen kaml glorifying himself which unlike him…but why not he dont you think he one actor who do needs to appreciated, and the song was suggested by ravikumar, and had agree to it..
And why dont you peaple go comment people who every movie with atleast to song sto glory, when someone puts in a song in the movie just to show six packs whick is so obvious, why not kamla wen he has worked hard, to do something diffirent, iam not saying this coz i like kamal it is sad but true for non kamal fans, who keep appreciating actors who do work hard just wear colurful clothes and to impress as many girls and gain populoarrity with out any talent but always in news if shits or goes shit or cuts his hair short, and for shitty reasons, please guys open your mind actors like kamal nana, mamooty, mohan lal, nasseruddin, aamir khan, shah needs more attentions, virmandi won the best asian film award do anyone know about this that is wat happens, of people want to delbertley out down an actor…..
please start writing reviews for some crap movies which is being made al the time in bollywood with same masala in a out in a diffrent plate …and leave alone kamal hassan…

hello … this is really good movie…everyone expected to be of a classy type.. but it is pure entertainer..
those who gave bad reviews are really jealous bcos their own icon actors cannot even perform a ordinary and simple role perfectly…even leading legends of indian cinema has to stop and have a look at kamal and wonder why they were not able to perform a role like this in their yesteryears… no one in indian film history has tried out voice modulation for differernt characters they adopt…but kamal u knw has set a milestone that noone can even near it.. sorry even think of it…
bye

Oh u north indian bastards + the rest of the bitches , if u cant understand something u say its stupid..
nothing wrong with u guys.. u r what we call as “Differently abled guys” u cant understand.. and u cant stop fucking abt it…
Have u guys ever wondered.. inpsite of the presence of good IITs in mumbai, kanpur and BITS in North India, the majority of the ppl are Tamilians.. we Tamilians have to come there and study.. u cant even fill ur seats and thats y we call u as “Differently abled people” .. and one of ur masterpieces is this review…

Dear Mr.Srini
I dont know who u are, but never use the unparliamentary words in public forum. Everybody has got the right to criticize anything according to their level of understanding and taste. And for your information Majority of students in IIT and BITS are Telugu and not Tamil. As in dasvatharam Tamil comes second to telugu only.

Wow..
Yet another place to start the “Tamil Vs Telugu” and “North India vs South India” arguments..Come on people…
In any case, if you noticed it Subramanian, the review itself wasn’t very parlimentary…
When you are in a buffalo shed, you cant expect to smell daffodils dude…

One more thing that I notice is that the blog aims to have posts with varied opinions. I’m wondering whether some of these posts are created with this goal in mind.

How difficult is it to read a few lines and understand where the actual review came from?

Bizarre comments too. Some of them sure needs a lot of sodium chloride to wash it down.

HELLO IS ANYONE THERE?

The movie has lead to mixed responses and i have noticed that most of the negative responses are from the religious lot. Why? Why should a movie become personal? If people can watch Steve Martin (i like him a lot) race around in a BMW… why not Kamal jump off a chopper? Are you guys being biased while trying your best to be desi? Most imporantly.. the movie was entertaining and fast paced… and the 10 disguises were carried off very well despite some flaws which is bound to occur taking the seriousness of wearing such make-up into picture. These disguises must be appreciated as i dont think anyone has managed to pull that off ever before and the characters were played out with brilliant practice and delivery. And the movie is actually neutral… there are anti, for & neutral views on religion and everything else in the movie.. people see what they want to see in it… and you cant blame a skilled actor for offending you if you have chosen to take it the wrong way. I think it was a splendid effort from Kamal’s end and he deserves standing ovation. As with any other movie, some people may dislike it but the mvovie is nothing even close to crap or flop. It is a must watch. Broad minded people will enjoy how all kinds of views and coincidences are played around with…. making one think and enjoy. Hats off Mr. Hasan.

And do not forget… this movie comes from the same actor who played religious roles… killer roles… atheist roles..lover boy roles… and even retarded roles in several occasions. Undeniable versatility … one cant oversee that. When he is pleasing.. the movie is good.. no matter wheather there is logic in the story line or if the storyline can occur in 2008 at all. But if he does not please one.. then the movie is a flop..?????? Come on… now who are the immature lot? The world is not for pleasing you… it is for one to enjoy and take what one wants and leave the rest… grow up people. You can never hope to discover new land unless you lose sight of shore.

I agree with Shruthi,
this movie was not at all bad. And you do need to use some brains for it.

being a critic you should never be so biased just for the sake that his thoughts dont match with yours……. really cheap attitude dude, which s clearly visible…….the movie is excellent n the box office also goes higher n higher….

I read the reviews and then watched the movie. I think there are two types of people – one who absolutely did not get the movie. The other group that really enjoyed the movie. I belong to the latter group. Calling this movie boring is the farthest from truth. The movie was a total entertainer from the word go. There was a brief moment when the movie seemed to sag a little bit and then came ‘Balram Naidu’. From then on, there was no looking back.

I am a Kamal fan – there aren’t many actors who can do what he has done so far. But to me, this movie would have been better off without him doing some of the characters. The make up was horrible in many cases – more like Halloween costume or a fancy dress competition mask.

Other than that, the movie was total fun. Go enjoy!

i am a kamal hasan fan …and i am disappointed with the movie.

i think he is ready to retire

Well, Comments given by some here are just bunch of bad words… If you guys do not know how to watch a movie, please learn…leave alone reviewing it… Most of the ppl who have given gruesome comments would never have seen the movie FULLY…. I watched the movie in a locality were most of the ppl came from “slum areas” and most of them were not that much learnt.. Still when the song “ulaganayagane” came on screen, every single person stood up and there was such a great aplause which i have never seen for any other movie!!!! Ppl who dont even know or have any idea about the concept of the movie [Vial, characters, english, telugu whatever...] also joined in this aplause!!!!

Guys come on…. appreciate the guts of Kamal.. No one has ever taken this much pain for a movie [an ordinary entertainer for 3 hours] but Kamal did… Appreciate that fact…

NO one is asking you to give great comments on this movie but DO NOT use derrogative words in describing that… The use of words/phrases shows clearly what type of ppl you are. YOu all dont sound as educated, leave alone being cultured…..

I liked this movie, many like this movie and still others who havent watched this movie yet will also like it…

IN tamil there is a saying “manjal kaamaalai kannuku, paakradhu ellam manjal”.. So if you watch this movie with a determination that it is confusing, non sync characters, no big screenplay, etc etc etc,,, then you will see that movie like that only and develop such kinda ideas which eventually reflects like Comments given here by few….

The real draw back of movie is we can’t get involved in the movie, artificial flavour is high which used to be low in KAMAL highly involved MOVIEs. Watch “SUBRAMANIAPURAM” – a never miss movie

Usually I do not comment bad movies, but
this one… too bad. As someone pointed out
this movie should be banned. Such a
idiotic film.
Do not say “this movie is for intelligent people” it is a lame statement. I did not
expect this from kamal. He just gone nuts.

for all u ppl who do not like the movie ur 2-3 % sample, rest of the ppl liked it and given dasa more than 150 crores in box office collection till date. so shut ur fricking a** and go and watch ambulimaama movies like sottaji..

JAIHIND

This movie is for sensible people…PERIOD.

Very bad review… The writer and the others who agree with the review seems to have no knowledge about Chaos Theory and Butterfly effect… This movie is the dictionary for Indian Cinema in screenplay..Movie is awesome.. This review sucks..

i think writer is grat fan of simbu.simply dog barking against the mountain.

The reviewer is a complete a$$ h*le. Now, with the movie declated as blockbuster after running for 50+ days in 750 locations (& still running) there is no proof required. It has reached both the class and the masses except the asses who think they write reviews. With all this said, the reviewer can eat his own $hit!

Frankly, being Kamal is very tough. Being Rajini is very easy.
Nevertheless, am Rajini fan but i very much value Kamal’s atheist statements. When something goes wrong its very easy to say some God etc. but it takes tough mind to go in analysis and think what went wrong. Believe me, i tried to be an atheist but its a very tough life. challenging at all spheres. i felt being a thiest is very easy.

Its all opinions, overall the film shows the hardwork, unlike Rajini is a mass puller, has the charm. Rajini can come and wave his hands doing the same steriotype movie still make it run for 100 days. But Kamal’s movie are different. The difference between HardWork and SmartWork. Kamal can also try doing the same kind of chavumism against female some crisp dialouges and style. But is that a part of REAL LIFE??? Real life is practical-tough(Kamal), Reel life is jolly(Rajini). I like only reel life, i wish everything goes like a Rajini movie, but … we are living a real life.

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very well written review
dasavatharam stinks and stinks real bad.
pretty bad show. good the box office rubbished the movie