Dasavatharam
Telugu & Tamil
( With English Sub Titles )

Cast: Kamal Haasan, Asin, Mallika Sherawat, Jayapradha, Jayaram, M S Baskar, Napolean
Director: K S Ravikumar
Producer: Oscar V Ravichandran
Story: Sujatha and Crazy Mohan
Music: Himesh Reshammiya
Cinematography: Ravi Varman
Editing: Ashmith Kunder
Make Up: Michael Westmore
Stunt: Thyagarajan

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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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