An Objective Appraisal of Dasavatharam

Please do not become emotional and give way to too much of feelings, let us do this activity with the intention of contributing something to the world of films and especially to the world of tamil movies.

I have great regards of Mr. Kamal Sir, he is immaculately talented, definetely a genius, his intelligence should be ranking among the top 2 % of the world population.

Having said that, I would like to also add that there seems to be a small syndrome of being conscious of the applause that he expects from the audience, what i mean is for all performing artists the tonic is always the applause and the appreciation one gets from the audience, but if the performer starts becoming consciuos of the same, then it back fires, in kamals' own words, the trance of the person who is watching the movie should not be disturbed, the same way the trance of the performer gets disturbed if he starts expecting the applause. In this movie, which has got a very deep and nicely woven plot as the crux of the story, but such a story needs a very extraordinary screenplay, the screen play in this movie is found wanting for the simple reason that it leaves many a movie watcher confused, in a way a director is like a teacher, you can confuse the student but only to bring in that extra clarity, you cannot leave the student in the lurch the same way Kamal with his screen play has left many an audience in the lurch.

The same way, the movie would have got well told, if the distraction of looking for kamal with every character that comes to the screen could be avoided, for this, my preference would be that he should have done the 12th century character, the hero, the naidu, poovaragan and probably one more either the fletcher or the patti. and he should have left the rest for some other artists, and he could have gone with the same title, may be he could have taken 10 departments apart from acting for maintaining the namesake.

A fast paced screen play will demand a less theoretical story crux like run lola run and such films, if it needs a story this heavy then, the screen play should have to have got slowed down, and this pace should have set in only at the last. An alternative screen play is like the one which we saw in michael madana kama rajan, in which almost beyond interval we had the introductions and then the story unfolded, that was a much better dialogue and screenplay than this. May be even for this he should have left the dialogue and screenplay to mouli and crazy mohan.

Definitely the efforts are well appreciated.