Dasaavatharam – The Movie

I went to watch Dasaavatharam yesterday. Was not expecting too much from it, as I had already read review on one of my friends blog. The movie started inside a stadium, where Kamal Haasan – the Bio Scientist addressing a pool of people regarding a 12th century incident. The 12th century scene was quite strong and full of drama. I liked Kamal’s acting as the Vishnu – devotee Bhramin, however could not understand why a scientist had to talk about such an incident which has nothing to do with the rest of the story.

After the 12th century episode it suddenly returns to current time and shows a research center in USA where Kamal is a researcher. From here the movie turns to be a thriller, minus 12th century incident. But there were lots of lose ends;

- The date pointer in the screen showed 2004. Now if it is current time, why not 2008 or 2007?
- How the Fake CIA agent knew that the actual parcel had reached Chidambaram?
- How did he reach the same hospital where Kamal (scientist) had come with the Muslim woman?
- And the top of all, what was the significance of showing the Avatar Sing’s post operation scene and post Tsunami scene in the beginning of the movie?

Editing of the movie was so bad that there was not relation between a scene and the other. I think they should have paid a little more to the editors. Looks like as if the editors were not happy, and screwed it up knowingly or carelessly.
Last half was too dragging. You won’t believe I even felt sleepy for a while. Asin’s character was so dumb, she kept saying ‘Nan Perumal’ I think after every sentence! Even when they were trying to escape from the fake CIA agent, she kept saying it! As if nothing was more important than ‘Perumal’!

Some of the action scenes were more hilarious than ‘Shivaji’. I didn’t know how Avatar Singh was able to jump out of the stage and come back without any support! Make up for few characters were not very seamless, in fact they were looking pretty odd, like the Japanese, Afghan and the fake agent.

However, Kamal’s acting as the 12th century priest and Balram Naidu was awesome. Some timely comic dialogues are good to nullify the drag. Hats off to him to carry off the whole movie in his sole hands. He is a genius and will remain so.Probably my expectation from any Kamal venture is so high that it gets difficult unless all the crew is equally talented. After seeing Hidustani and Chachi 420 I feel make up would have been better. Top of all Kamal should have directed the movie himself, I am sure it would have turned out much better.