Dasavatharam - 7.5/10

What is it all about ?

Its a link between 12th and 21st Centuries using a logical chase for a bio-logical weapon.

Highlights:

-- Kamal Hasan: He is an artistic scientist and a scientific artist who always experiments with his roles. This time he puts his target a lot high and now he can sigh a relief for his commendable job.

Story: It is certainly an out of the box idea to relate a true devotee's his-story and the scientific threat in the current generation. Brilliant story point by Kamal. Introduction and climax scenes stand out.

Screenplay: Kamal took the usual treasure hunt / Moon Stone(Novel) type chase for moving the plot. He succeeds in putting interesting elements in sailing through an amazing maze.

-- Dialogues: There is good humour in the film here and there. Kamal and K.S. Ravi Kumar have excelled the art of creating confused comedy. There are some interesting comic conversations. Eg:

1) Officer Nadar to Govind: nuvvu Terrific Scientist aa leka Scientific Terrorist aa ???

2) Nadar's sidekick: Our sir knows many languages. He can speak 5 languages in Tamil.

3) Muslim guy: Sir, lorry driver guddaadu.
Officer Nadar: sariggaa cheppu, lorry driver guddaadaa ? lorry guddindaa ?

4) Kamal: shu...ushshu...
Asin: Shoe aa ??? nuvve socks...

5) Asin: devudu ledantaavaa ?
Kamal: devudu ledani neneppudannaanu, vundunte bagundedi annaanu.

-- Getups: Kamal's ten different 'getups' make us glued to the screen and it is difficult to 'get up' in the middle from our seats.

- He is too good in brand new getups:

George Bush, Giant Muslim guy, Japanese Guru, Rebel Leader, Avatar Singh.

- He was able to show good variation between different roles. Eg: Saint and a Giant.

- His body language in Bush's role is noteworthy.

- He looked good as a raw, RAW(Research and Analysis Wing) officer and provided good comic relief. It is one of the very best imitations of a Tamilian speaking Telugu. Excellent dialect but his conversations have been prolonged. Had they been cut short it would have been great.

- The climax fight between the Japanese guru and villain is an interesting way of using characters. The sentiment angle in bringing in this Japanese character is a very good move in the story.

-- The conflict between Hari-Hara devotees has been shown well with sarcastic remarks.

-- S.P.Balu has done a fair job in rendering his voice with different modulations for most of Kamal's roles.

-- The idea of using Tsunami for nullifying the impact of bio-weapon is very good.

-- The way Lord's Dasavatharams are shown by the old woman in a song is fine.

-- Music:
- 12th Century song is good and it has been used for BGM throughout the movie.
- 'Krishna...Murari' song is ok.