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The 10-character bit also takes the focus away from the film itself, since you start to think that that is what the movie is all about. How much does the thought of a movie where an actor plays 10 characters excite you now? There was once an ANR movie called Navaratrulu where ANR played 9 different roles, and that was something different for those times, something those audiences would enjoy. The masks on Kamal Hasan look grotesque, and it all looks like an actor indulging himself in some megalomaniacal grandeur than doing something necessary for a story to be narrated well, for a movie to work best. Govindaraju asks exactly the same questions, and Lakshmi gives exactly the same replies as a standard-issue preacher at an ISKCON temple would.Īt the end, however, the only aspect of the script that would make this movie worthy of its scale is, alas, relegated to some inadequate and diffident dithering, and the rest, like we said, is tripe. If you are a normal compassionate human - or heck, human - you have certainly wondered about how God would have allowed 1,20,000 people to die in one night and millions rendered homeless, orphans, without a livelihood, scarred for life. The couple have to run around the hinterland escaping from Fletcher, and the movie progresses towards a grand finale where the tsunami of December 2004 hits just as the vial is about to explode. He tries to get the idol but has to contend with Lakshmi (Asin), a staunch Krishna devotee who, like the Indian state by then, believes he is a terrorist, won't let him get the vial out of the sacred idol.
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Govindaraju flees to India in a series of unexpected circumstances, landing in Chennai and then interior Tamilnadu, and the vial lands in an idol of Vishnu.
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He discovers that his boss is trying to sell it for his personal benefit, and runs away with the vial containing the formulation, resulting in an ex-CIA man and now professional assassin Fletcher (Kamal Hasan again) coming after him. The film moves to 2004 where Govindaraju (Kama Hasan) is a top-ranking scientist developing a biological weapon for the US. That doesn't appear to be the case, and it isn't clear then what it was all about. It's not clear what that has to do with the movie eventually, unless the film is saying that God took revenge many centuries later by sending a tsunami on Tamilnadu. Kamal Hasan's acting is by nature understated, and when understatement comes from behind a thick mask, it's kinda like being served a dish with a different name and a different taste.ĭasavataram starts off with a prologue about a staunch Vaishnavite priest Govinda Rangarajan (Kamal Hasan) being tortured and killed by a Shaivite king for not turning Shaivite. What's the point of Kamal Hasan doing a role when he doesn't look like Kamal Hasan at all? It's not like those roles require great emoting. Then, that whole 10-role thing seems so pointless - as you probably expected it would be even before the film released. Heck, most of the time you're not even clear why the villian is after him. For what is essentially a thriller, at no stage does the film really grip you. However, where Kamal Hasan's hyped latest that seems to start off aiming to be a theological opus, fails to deliver, is that it spends as little time on this deeper aspect as you do in your own life on it, and the rest of the movie is meaningless tripe. There will perhaps never be conclusive proof either for or against those postulates, and Dasavatharam does exactly what you've done all your life - stop thinking about it when you hit a dead end. The two oldest rumours in the world are (a) that there is a God, and (b) that He is good.