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Starring: Kamal Hassan,
Asin Thottumkal, Mallika Sherawat, Jayaprada, Napolean,
Santhana Bharathi
Director: K S Ravikumar
Dashavtar is a Tamil film which is dubbed in Hindi
and released all over India. Its basic premise is Lord
Vishnu's 10 different avatars (10 appearances of the
lord in different roles). The film is set on a grand
scale, and it traverses from 1000 years back till today.
It is due to tremendous efforts of the versatile Kamala
Haasan who transforms into 10 utterly different
characters much to our amazement.
It begins from the 12th century Chola kingdom when there
is a serious conflict between the Shiva devotees and
those of Vishnu. The King a non believer of Lord Vishnu
orders to dispose a large idol of Vishnu from a temple
in ocean. However, Rangaraja Nambi (Kamal Haasan), a
Lord Vishnu follower, opposes the royal order, despite
pleas from his wife, Kothai Radha, (Asin Thottumkal) and
their son. Rangaraja is subsequently chained to the huge
idol and both are thrown in the ocean.
Even impressive is Jaya Prada playing the wife of a
cancer-stricken Punjabi Bhangra-pop singer. So is the
Las Vegas pole dancer, Mallika Sherawat as Jasmine who
performs aesthetically to Himesh Reshammiya’s tunes and
then there is the upcoming star Asin who comes in twice;
the first time during the 12th Century Chola rule and
then she appears again eight hundred years later in a
different part.
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Credit is also due to the director Ravi Kumar who
creates some breathtaking action sequences and presents
the hero even as the Japanese samurai warrior to other
awesome characters.
The film lacks prominence on narrative aspects too, and
it has a confusing story telling pattern. There are some
comedy tracks too, in this otherwise a nice action
thriller.
- Amarjeet
CAST:
Kamal Hassan
Jasmine - Mallika Sherawat
Kothai Radha - Asin Thottumkal
Ranjitha Singh - Jaya Prada
King Kulothunga II - Napolean
Sheik Mukhtaar (Kalifulla's Father) - Nagesh
Robin Roy - Raghuraman
Jaa. Raghavandra (Jaa. Raa) - P Vasu
Meenakshi - Rekha
Jaa. Raa's Brother-in-law - Santhana Bharathi
Inspector Bharath - Akash
Suresh - Sanjay
M.S. Baskar
K.R. Vijaya
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Remains of the immersed idol
surfaces on the shores after a 2004 Tsunami, when the
uncontrollable torrents of sea waves take the lives of
thousands, yet millions have been saved by the
villainous ex-CIA officer Fletcher (Kamal in another
appearance) who has swallowes a virus that could wipe
out the human race.
Primarily, the story
revolves around a research scientist in the USA
Govindarajan Ramaswamy (Kamala Hassan) who works in an
organization which has invented a deadly virus which has
the potential to be the greatest bio-weapon which can wipe
off the mankind. Realizing this grave danger, Govind wants
to destroy it.
But his boss, has a different idea to sell it to terrorist
organizations for a huge sum. So Govind makes off with the
vial containing the virus with the only possible remedy
being the mixing of the weapon with sodium chloride.
This weapon is also sought by
an ex-CIA officer who wants to exploit this weapon for his
own use. Then ensues a cat and mouse chase throughout
several countries, as the scientist and the ex-CIA officer
fight for the possession of the weapon. Rest of the film
is all about what happens in next 4 days before horrible
accident of Tsunami had grudged thousands of lives
Kamala Hassan, who is also the screenwriter of this glitzy
tale of rebellious warriors, international gangs and
parochial accents, becomes several sizes larger than life
and many of it so convincing, that it is hard to recognize
that even this character or that person is our lead actor.
Much to our astonishment, he transforms into characters
ranging from the scientist, a Bengali cop, a fearless TV
reporter, the South Indian lady, Mr Fletcher, the Japanese
Samurai out to avenge his student’s death, an old village
woman, the giant Muslim, George Bush and the Punjabi pop
singer! Many of them cross path with each other.
CREDITS & CREW:
Banner - Oscar Films
Producer - Oscar Ravichandran
Director: K S Ravikumar
Executive Producer / Co-Producer - G. Ramesh Babu
Music: Himesh Reshammiya
Lyricist - Sameer
Screenplay, Story / Writer - Kamal Hassan
Cinematography - Ravi K. Chandran
Choreography – Brinda, Prasanna
Art - Samir Chanda, M. Prabhakaran, Thotta Tharani
Editors - Ashmith Kunder, K. Thanigachalam
Sound - H Sridhar
Dialogues - Atul Tiwari, Kamal Hassan
Costumes Design - S. Murthy
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