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| What a super human effort! That will be the |
| first reaction of any normal film buff who watches Kamal Haasan's Tamil |
| magnum opus, Dasavathaaram . The film is certain to thrill and |
| entertain the audience for all of its 165 minutes, making them feel |
| that they are watching something unusual and spectacular on screen. |
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| The film starts off with |
| an incident that occurs in the 12th century when Shaivite intolerance |
| against Vaishnavites was at its peak. An ardent Vishnu devotee loses |
| his life to save the idol of Lord Ranganatha. Kamal plays his first |
| role of Vishnu devotee Rangarajan in this episode which is marked by |
| excellent technical work and the actor's extraordinary performance. |
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| From here, the film goes |
| to a time when the whole world is on the brink of a biological warfare |
| waged by terrorists. Actively opposing them is the American president |
| who urges the rest of the world to combat this evil. |
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| Meanwhile, a computer chip |
| containing a vicious biological material goes missing from a laboratory |
| in the United States. An in-house scientist Govinda (again played by |
| Kamal Hassan ) who is aware of the dangers of the material launches a |
| hunt for the missing material, which takes him to India. |
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| In the course of the hunt for the missing chip, Kamal takes on eight more characters and travels to many continents. |
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| The film is a scientific |
| thriller par excellence and it is certain that Kamal has excelled in |
| his eleventh role of the story and script writer. It is difficult to |
| imagine that any normal script writer can think of weaving such a |
| fantastic subject that mixes intelligence with commercial ingredients. |
| It requires an extraordinary intelligent mind to write the sequences |
| some of which are food for thought to the intellectuals as well as |
| ordinary people. Perhaps this is the best script of Kamal Hassan till |
| date. Throughout the film, the writer, an atheist questions the |
| existence of God. |
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| Now comes the challenging |
| part -- picking Kamal's best role out of his ten. Will it be Annachi or |
| Padikkadha Medhai, who fights against the Sand Mafia? Or will it be the |
| investigative officer Naidu? Better yet, will it be the 100-year old |
| woman Krishnaveni, who still yearns the return of her son? But what |
| about the Punjabi pop singer Avatar Singh or for that matter the former |
| CIA agent, Fletcher? Will it be President George Bush or the lanky |
| Afghan merchant? You get the point. So excellent is the make-up and |
| voice modulation that picking any one character is difficult. |
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| Though Kamal had performed |
| many roles that were similar to the roles of 12th century priest, |
| Rangarajan and scientist Govinda, you still see some novelty in |
| Dasavathaaram. |
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| It is very difficult to |
| single out the best sequence of the film, yet the tsunami episode is |
| perhaps the outstanding presentation mainly because of the top class |
| visuals backed by a superb background effort. |
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| It is not necessary to say |
| how great an actor Kamal Haasan is but one thing has to be said; no |
| other actor would have dared to take on these varied roles. And hats |
| off to him. |
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| As for the heroine, Asin, |
| she has improved since her debut. In a way, Dasavathaaram is an |
| extension of her excellent performance in Ghajini. All the other |
| artists have also performed very well. |
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| K.S. Ravi Kumar should |
| also be complimented for his handling of such a complicated but |
| challenging subject. This may well go down in the history of Indian |
| cinema as a unique experiment in the commercial circuit. He has taken |
| the best out of his artists and technicians. |
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| Only Himesh Reshammiya |
| fails him. Except for Ulaganayagane and the Bhangra song, the rest are |
| nothing to write home about. However, background music by Devi |
| Sriprasad is excellent. |
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| So is the camera work by Ravi Varman. The special effects and stunt choreography are of international standards. |
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| All in all, Dasavathaaram is an extraordinary effort. |
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Cast: Kamal Haasan, Asin, Mallika Sherawath, Jayapradha, Rekha, K R Vijaya, Nagesh, Nepolean, Santhana Bharathi
Music Director: Himesh Reshammiya
Banner: Oscar Films
Direction: K S Ravikumar
Production: V Ravichandran
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Codec: XviD
Format: AVI
Movie Full Size: 700 Mb
Duration: 03:05:07
Audio:MP3 CBR 128kb/s
Width : 486pixels
Height : 208 pixels
Subtitle : English
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