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.
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. :-D
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...