Dasavatharam

It seemed like a movie put together on an impulse. Kamal has tried to connect very disparate incidents in history into a thread that is so fragile. In the process, he has also allegedly twisted the history. While most of history cannot be proved, I believe it is best left alone especially if the twist endangers the harmony of the contemporary peaceful community.

Also his advertisement of atheism leaves the audience in a very bitter taste. I don't understand why he has to thrust his personal ideology in such a influential media movie after movie. The characterization of "Brahmins" is very flawed - purely taking advantage of a very tolerant community to create some unpleasant comedy in the screenplay. It is very silly of him to show himself as a perfectionist hero and the rest of the people as lesser mortals. The 10-role-play seemed very thrust upon and unnatural to the plot; adding a lot of unnecessary floss to an already non-existing story line. The "Telugu" Kamal (he can speak Telugu in 5 languages!!) creates some lighter moments, but the rest of the Kamal's facial make up adds to the let down.

The Japanese style fight scenes are a novel effort, but the alacrity was definitely missing when two sixty-year old Kamals dash on the screen. Not any like the martial arts shot that he has tried to emulate. Even the camera work of creating a Tsunami is below par and the artificiality is evident. However it did bring back the depressing memory of 26th Dec 2004. In all a over hyped movie is let down by every department of the movie.