I am not a movie critic and I do not write reviews of movies regularly. And there may be flood of reviews about the newly released 'Dasavatharam' in the blogworld and I can assure you that all of them may be better than what I am going to write here by any standards. But I just wanted to write, to vent out my frustration of having wasted three hours of my life (not that I would have done anything productive in those three hours!) and lost $16.25 for a story that looked like a cheap imitation of Crash and Babel mixed with some thrilling elements from that despicable Tamil movie called 'E'(am talking about the bio-warfare concept)!
Ok, the movie was not THAT bad, but neverthless expectations took a huge hit during those three hours. It was a typical 'Kamal' movie - made by Kamal for Kamal. The movie was just full of Kamal - sometimes you need to show other characters too, right? Well, one Kamal goes off screen, the next one pops up within five frames! I guess you can't help it when you have 10 'avatars' to be highlighted in the movie.
Asin's role in the movie was to play an 'acharamana' Tam-Brahm girl, who keeps running along with Kamal to escape the baddies and she has played the role to perfection. I am being sarcastic. Mallika I thought had a better role and she was good for the 20 odd minutes she was in the movie. Apart from that, the only good thing about the movie was comic relief by the Naidu character - he was hilarious. Kamal has tried to pull off a Crazy Mohan style comedy which did provide some relief from watching so many Kamals but ruefully though did not reach the standards set for a Kamal movie by the evergreen MMKR! In my opinion, his potrayal of Naidu and the uneducated Dalit was the best among all the 10 characters.
Coming to the makeups - a very good attempt, but unfortunately some of them were really really really bad to look at. Fletcher, the ex-CIA's bulging forehead made it look like his ass was on his face. No kidding! I loved the Japanese character though. The martial arts fight sequence at the end looked very real and 'martial arts'y. If Kamal had done the entire fight himself, then hats off to him.
Though the graphics during the initial part of the movie (the drowning of the Ananthasheshan idol) was a put off, the graphics at the end of the movie depicting the Tsunami was really good by Tamil movie industry standards. A last minute romance between Kamal and Asin at the end of the movie looked like it had been placed there to satisfy a need for romance in the movie. And comeon, romance in the aftermath of a Tsunami attack?!?!?! When hundreds of people had just been killed and whole villages made a wreck?! And it definitely lacked chemistry and Kamal is well known for his chemisty with his heroines.
Well, it would do good for you to expect a movie in likes of MMKR or Panchatantiram. What do you expect when you have KS Ravikumar as the director. I am a HUGE fan of Kamal. I love Kamal's acting. His versatality in acting, potraying different characters is unmatched. And he should stick to that and only that! : He shouldn't venture out to screenplay or dialogues. Didn't Mumbai Express teach him anything?!
Dasavatharam was a great effort by Kamal, but I rue spending 15 bucks for a movie that I have already almost forgotten!
9 comments:
Ok Plsss..theres more that need venting out...
1. Napolean's tamil as King kulothunga is quite dismal. He needs to talk in the purest tamil possible. But Napolean, just cannot pronounce all the alphabets clearly. Hes the usual.. "alagiya" for "aZHAgiya" n so on. Adhuve oru semmaaa turn off. Baddd direction there. They shdve picked sumone else for the role.
2. At one point I felt I could just slap Asin if she came near me. She keeps screeching and babbling all the time espply when she and the scientist guy escape with the idol. Its annoying. You feel like saying.. Oh just shutup woman. ( :(( I really like Asin a LOTT. Loved her in Ghajini and even Sivakasi.)
3. The Japanese guys makeup was just as sad I think. I could see the powder and makeup on his eyelashes. But Kamal has tried sumthing.
4. BADDDDDDDDDD story. BADDDDDDDDD screenplay. BADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD music. BGM was a saving grace. kudos to Devi Prasad.
Nice blog tho.
Had the movie been attempted by anyone else(btw.. no one will dare to...), i too would have started writing reviews and sarcasm would have hit the peak... Some how i am not able to do the same as I AM A KaMaL FAN !!
Having said that its high time for me to start writing reviews on Rajini's movies... ;)
dei... nice review da!
i knew the music critic in you - not the movie critic :)
@Pashyaathmaanam: lol, why dont u write a review urself? :P
@Barath: I completely agree that none else could have pulled off 10 different characters. Nobody can come close to the kind of acting that Kamal can pull off. My point is that he should stick to what he does best. Story, Screenplay AND dialogue?!?!
But the irony is that, this was Kamal's dream or whatever. And only he could have written a story to express what he had in mind I guess. Anyways, do write a review for Rajini's movie da, I shall prompt in commenting! :)
@jug: thanks nanba... u shud write a review urself...
hehe, et tu brute? irukara review lam poradha???
Hmmm, same thoughts as bharath. I guess thanks to "Aascar" Ravi's sudden lack of courage, some commercial elements were forced into the movie. Eventually it didn't exactly turn out the way Kamal wanted. At least, I think so.
I wonder how the reviews would have been if Shankar was the director and Rajini had played the 10 roles. :))
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Adithya
i know!! horribly dissapointing, right?? i went for the first day first show in India and all that i remember now was that it was such a dissapointment.. too much of kamal (without a need for it) is too bad!
and yeah..this was the first movie where Asin irritated me.. i have always been such a kamal fan but i am beginning to think that he's too full of himself and really needs to get out of the "kamal" obsession to make good movies:)
hmm... hmm ...
that's my review as far as dasav goes...
chaos theory... ak thu !! ... shit spat on my own monitor... my preciousss my preciousss (smeagle avtar) pro book..
neways asin's role i believe was wantedly created to be irritating... meaning lets leave superstition behind in the 21st century... what say?
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you were very kind with your review.
this idiot, i meant kamal, spoiled the name "dashavatharam". When you google for dashavatharam to figure out the 10 avathars, all you get is links to his movie on the first page. huh!
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