DASAVATHARAM

Well, this isn't what i call a review. As usual, since i only have a fuzzy idea in mind, i don't know what it's gonna shape up to be, so here goes. I watched the movie in Benglooru, (forgive my spelling). For one, the ticket prices are bloody expensive. But going into that is starting another story altogether about inflation and other technical subjects i dare not tread upon, so let me stick to the movie bit. Well, to put it in a nutshell, it was passable. But just that one comment on a movie so extravagant would not suffice, so I'll go into the details. The first part of the movie, where they portray a real life incident which took place like 5 centuries back, was impressive, sets and all. Kamalhaasan had a lot of showing off to do, and for once i felt he flaunted more skin than Mallika Sherawat. Napolean didn't act, or if he did, it was masked by his big larger-than-life beard.The music was surprisingly good. The minute i heard that Himesh Reshammiya was the music director, i swore not to watch the movie, but once i heard the soundtrack, it was quite decent and i changed my mind. The first song could have had amazing , but again, something was lacking. I guess acting. All i remember of the first song was Asin trying to cry, and Napolean trying to navigate the boats in a direction that only seemed to be the middle of the sea. Kamal, definitely, no doubt about his acting. But the rest of them could have at least tried to come up to half his level of acting.
I won't give out the rest of the story here cuz otherwise my friends who haven't yet watched the movie will physically strangle me. Not that there exist non-physical mothods of strangulation, but still. Anyway, getting back to the movie, my favourite song was Mukunda Mukunda. Melodious and sweet. The makeup of the old lady was very well appreciated in reviews, but i kind of found it unbelievable. Maybe because i haven't seen a 90 year old woman. Ah, forgot to mention Christian Fletcher. He had nice stunts, and i thought it would be fun to watch the makeup slightly drip or fade as the action intensified, but thanks to Kamals perfection, i missed out on the fun. Many people found the telugu guy extremely funny. The jokes, if cracked by me in my hostel, would get me numerous stares and growls from my friends and they would instantly classify them under the mokkai category. But since the jokes were cracked in an A.C theatre in the midst of a considerably large crowd, it was well received. Then comes the chinese guy, who i think was there in the movie only for kamal to play yet another character. Then the extremely tall guy, whose innocence was overwhelming. Then the righteous guy, and hey, i assure you,only his voice sounded like kamal. He put up a very believable accent. How can i forget Avatar singh? Again there in the movie only to make it run for 3 hours. The bullet magically curing his throat cancer gave the audience their money's worth. They had after all come to see a tamil movie, and OBVIOUSLY,they had expectations. Well i guess that's about it. At least that's all i have to say about Kamal. Mallika, the usual. Too cheesy, and the dubbing was horrible. She only fit the role because she probably fit into size zero clothes as well. Jayapradha,the movie was definitely not a platform to show off her talent. Asin, wasted. She got quite irritating in the middle. Actually throughout the movie. The character she played was quite clearly for the romance factor. Not really contributing towards anything else. And ah, one thing i hated about the movie was the way they kept killing people. One second they were there, delivering a dialogue, and just as i thought their character had an important role to play, BAM! Shoot Shoot Shoot, AND he/she is dead.
What really caught my attention was what Kamal said at the end of the movie. It was obviously in tamil, and it roughly translates to english as follows.
Asin: Whatever you do, please don't say god isn't there.
Kamal: I never said god isn't there. I only said it would be nice if he is.
Actually speaking, i wanted to base my post on those two lines, but since this blog is long enough to bore you, I'll keep that more interesting topic for later. I at least don't have to sit in front of my comp and figure out what to write the next time.

P.S- Didn't feel like i gave an apt conclusion. Overall, if you're a fan of Kamalhaasan,amazing makeup and a chase-me-all-around-the-world story, go watch dasavatharam! If you have seen it already, comment! Well, comment anyway! :D
Ta.