DA 'SATHA' AVATHARAM - Review Part I

A movie by a Tamil director KV Ravikumar and the Universally controversial Hero of Tamil film world Kamal Haasan. I need to review this movie twice as a Tamil film fan and then once on a switched off mode - (not as Kamal fan).

Some background on title (especially for people who do not know what dasavatharam means). Simply the word means ten avatars of God. Dasam = Ten + Avatar = Reincarnation. The Hindus believe Lord Vishnu has taken nine different avatars to establish righteousness and reset the karmic cycle. The tenth is officially yet to happen. First to nine in order: Fish, Tortoise, Boar, half-man/lion, 3feet-human, angry man, a tiller, multi-faceted man, a self-contained man. The final one is the destroyer of everything basically reboot mode in Microsoft speak ! A quick think of the above order may construe your thoughts to biological evolution.

Ok back to review... Kamal has done 11 different roles actually - 10 acts and the 11th - as a Story, Screenplay and Dialogue. Most of his fans claim thats world record, but as early as in 1950s veteran tamil actor M N Nambiar had donned 11 roles in Digambara Samiyar! That's just to set facts straight.

Sorry back to review...

1. With just 3 crap songs and 1 okay song, why the hell did they spend so much in getting Jackie Chan to town and so much hulla-bullah for nothing? GOK! I can't even treat it as a means to hype the movie...
2. Such bad graphics in the climax, people were hyped so much about the scene of Tsunami and for viewers like me (who have seen Titanic 2, just as an example to pick-out from a well known movie), this is not even kids stuff!
3. Why the hell spend so much on Make-ups that are not needed - GW Bush - just his back and ask a mimicry artist to dub! American Ex-CIA & Japanese Martial artist - again someone could have done a better role - movie costs could have come down.

So many logical loopholes and so many unnecessary scenes... The song sequence of avatar singh, try throwing a 20 kg metallic statue to a thayir saatham girl who is btw rope-walking - she catches with not even a single jerk, tsunami hits everyone except the two avatars and the heroine, but kills one Hero and the same time saves kids and the villains who float in the same zone of tsunami, police assigns a one man army to spy the biological terrorist, scenes suddenly in the climax jump 200 miles (from Chidambaram to Chennai)...

i am not on my switched off mode - I speak as a regular movie watcher... the next blog i intend to speak as a critique on the message of movie.

btw - i have quoted the movie in my blog title as DA 'SATHA' Avatharam - meaning an ordinary reincarnation!