Happened to watch Dasavatharam last weekend! Went into the movie with lots of talk about Chaos Theory, Butterfly effect and blah-blah!! But I was just there to witness a definite masterpiece by an ace actor, in 10 (distinct) roles. Following are my positives on the movie.
Versatility of characters
None can deny the distinction and versatility in each of the characters. Kamal had perfected the language of ‘95-year-old-iyengar-paati’ Krishnaveni with the same ease as he had that of Chris Fletcher. Awesome! Balram Naidu with the typical Andhra accent is an icing on the cake. Not to forget Kalifullah Khan and Poovaraghan for their respective accents and characters. Overall the choice of characters and execution of them to perfection - only possible by Kamal!
Flow of Story
The story, naturally is a flowing one, starting from US and ending in Tamil Nadu. But nowhere I have found a slowdown in the movie. The pace was maintained and never gave a chance to relax, for the audience.
Occassional but strong hints of Chaos theory
As pointed out by Kamal in his opening speech, everything that happens in this world have some weird resemblance to something that happened in the past or something that might happen in the future. Following are my observations on this front:
- Govind trying to save the world from the virus, as Rangarajan Nambi was trying to save Vaishnavism
- Govind getting hurt right on his forehead resembling the ‘Vaishnava Namam’, same way as Nambi was injured
- The virus getting into the Perumal idol and Govind trying to save that - similar to Nambi trying to save the Perumal idol
- Govind and Aandal resolving to be together, near the same idol, which led to separation of Nambi and his wife and many more…
Makeup
The makeup clearly shows the hardwork - both Kamal and the makeup team has put in. Especially, the Zen master and Chris Fletcher, were my favorites.
So overall, the movie was nice mix of hard work and commercial stuff. I enjoyed watching it!!
Asin: … kadavul ilanu soladhingo…
Kamal: … kadavul ilanu naan eponga sonen. irundha nalla irukumenu than sonen …
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[۩]|[Åçε]|[۩] // July 5, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Dasavatharam is the best Kamal movie ever!!
Jyo // August 4, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Dasavatharam was a masterpiece. Simply superb.
I don’t have any special words in my vocabulory to describe this movie. I would just say “Hats off Kamal Sir” Asin was very good in both roles. Keep it up. Jaya Pradha looks very beautiful. All the 10 roles were so perfectly played. Now I expect a simply a whole out comedy from Kamal like Sati Leelavati. I would like him to be paired with Asin again.
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