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‘Dasavatharam', the most expected movie of the year 2008, features Kamal
Haasan and Asin in the lead roles. ‘Dasavatharam' is a class in itself, for
it features Kamal in ten different roles. K S Ravikumar is directing this
mega budget movie for Oscar Ravichandran. Himesh Reshammiya from Bollywood
is scoring the music. This is his debut in Kollywood.
Kamal,
always known in the industry for trying out something new, is handling ten
different roles in this movie. It looks like he is trying to break the
record of Sivaji Ganesan's nine roles in ‘Navaratri'.
The movie
was shot in different locations in India, Malaysia and the US. When the hero
does something, should not the heroine follow? Kamal's ten roles are
countered by Asin's dual role in the movie. This is the first time in her
career Asin is playing dual role. Mallika Sherawat dons an altogether
different cap in this movie. She appears as a CIA agent while Jayapradha,
the well-known character artiste, plays another important role in the movie.
Apart
from the usual entertainment involving hero, heroine, villain and duets and
fights, Dasavatharam reveals a valuable truth - the focal point of the
birth-and-death-cycle of human beings. How many times have we grumbled about
the uncontrollable progress of events in our lives? Have we not put the
blame on the unseen element of fate? What is fate? Who devises and fashions
the order and occurrence of things? Dasavatharam attempts to explore the
meaning and significance of all these occurrences which are outside our
control. The plot tries to establish an indisputable relationship between
fate and a practical theory of chaos through which activities of all beings
in the whole world are connected.
The
indisputable relationship is almost an example of practical physics and goes
like this: Each individual's activity, either good or bad, never fades away.
It fuels another individual's rise or doom, like the result of a collision -
the two bodies could be diverted from their original paths or a new product
could be formed. Here, the collision is not looked upon as an act of
destruction and its effect need not be negative. It could very well be a
fresh beginning. A formidable explanation for 'Karma' and the cycle of birth
is given through Dasavatharam story. Kamal's ten different roles are the
instruments deployed to convey the substance of the story.
One may
frown at the intense philosophy conveyed in the movie's theme and
subsequently brood about its ambiguities. But within this serious
discussion, Kamal has provided a 'Kamal' of entertainment, making an
instrument of mass destruction - of boredom. Kamal is the author who had
conceived the characters and the plot to accommodate them. He and Ravikumar
have further fine-tuned the theme and characters during many brain-storming
sessions. |
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