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Lowlights:

-- This film has good story idea, excellent introduction and climax points but the screenplay in the middle involved too many chase sequences, re-covering many accidents and some prolonged conversations that dropped the range of the film. Kamal tried to open and end each of his getups with good backdrop and so took much time. He has put in great efforts to make it interesting but certain things have resulted a bit against his awesome, tiresome work.

-- Villian's role reminds Terminator.

-- Getup of some characters didn't stick well. Some of his roles have already been tried by Kamal himself.

-- Asin's character is irritating as it continues iterating same dialogues. We need an Anacin to bear Asin's role.

-- There should have been more clarity in justifying the title. Remember it is not 'Dasavatharalu' but pointing to a specific avatar, 'Dasavatharam'.

-- Avatar Singh role is too dramatic. Bringing in a cinematic point that Singh can't sing further owing to a cancer and finally saying that a bullet has taken away his ailment is unconvincing.

-- Music by Himesh Reshammiya is a big let down. Avatar Singh's stage song should have been better. This film needed much better music.

Final Touch:

Without Kamal's various getups the tale looks pale when it gets shifted from 12th to 21st century, inspite of some interesting story elements. It is good to see, Kamal touching various aspects like History, Terrorism, Nuclear/Bio weapons,American ideology, Muslim/Christian/Sikh characters, sand scams, Tsunami...etc

Its Kamal's kamaal all the way. His conviction is one which can be observed and absorbed. Enacting ten different roles in not an easy thing and is an uneasy thing for an actor. It takes atleast 6 hrs to put up a get up and 2 hrs to take it off. Still our Hasan makes it look so asaan.

May be we need to prounounce Kamal Hasan as Kamaal Asaan.

It is a one time must watch for any movie goer and 'Re-view'ing is the case for the one who are interested in resolving the complexity in the film and for the ones who like 'Panchatantram' type comedy.