Dasavatharam - my review

The movie has amazing screenplay. the way he knitted chaos theory to the story is simply mindblowing (but "The butterfly effect" is best). The movie starts with 12th century clashes between shaivite Vs Vaishnavite. That day, no one's aware of atheism, so they started fight in the name of "Who's powerful god ?".
I expected that story will again surround the concept of theism\atheism and the questions followed by that...thankfully it was not that.(this is the reason "Anbae sivam" bombed at box-office). The scene where Nambi starts from his deep throat the mantra "OM" and end it with "Namo Narayanaya..." Awesome piece of narration. dont miss that part !!!

Then story comes to 21st century, group of scientist inventing a bio-weapon which may destroy half the world within mins(little more than KURUVI movie, which takes 3 hrs to kill people). If they invent something, then there should be villain or group of villains who tries to snatch it and take control of world...so same happens here. A cool villain of recent time, Mr.Fletcher, impresses with his stiff body-language. The make-up is not that good. but then it's been annulled by the acting skills. Fletcher is a cool dude.

The bio-weapon which looks like zippo lighter(flip type), comes to India and Govind follows it, here, the intro of Balram Naidu, tamil-speaking-telugu guy comes into picture. The dialogues gives a fresh air about what real comedy is(not like vadivelu n vivek types). Then story takes a turn from there and hero will be chasing the ayal(thats wat they said in the movie) and eventually all the characters will come into the picture without any lag. as i said the screenplay is brilliant.
Finally, the world will be saved and thats it !!!!!

i liked these things:

1) 10 Characters: it's a damn good imagination and Kamal really worked hard to put into the picture, but the make-up man let him down most of the time.The perfect make-up is for Balram Naidu. Rest all are not that impressive, but Kamal compensates all with his immense acting skills.Kalifulla and Poovaragan deserves a special mention here.

2) Sarcasm: Sarcasm at its best. few samples,
Balram Naidu to Govind: Telugu en mother tongue, deputation la tamilnadu vandu tamil kathukittu naane tamil nalla pesuraen, nee tanjore la pirandu...english la thaan pesuviya???? appuram epidi tamil Vaazhum ?
Govind to his love: Kadavul illainu naan sollala....irunda nalla irukumnu thaan solraen !!!!
George Bush to his asscoiates: can we drop an atom bomb to destroy it ?
What is NaCl ?

3) Balram Naidu & Fletcher: Clearly the scorers. Balram with his witty comments and fletcher with his cool attitude. The expression on kamal when he sees a fellow telugu-waadu is simply awesome.(re-recording for this scene is best).

4) Chaos Theory : The way he knitted the concept of chaos theory, and the way he related 12th century with 21st century is awesome. but i am very sure that people wont understand.(the same happened with kudaikul mazhai,which is an awesome portrayal of split personality, but anniyan clicked)

5) Graphics: Though they cant match the hollywood standards, but still they gave their best. Tsunami scene was good one. Rest all the places, we feel like, they could have invested a bit more !!!!

6) Screenplay: Clearly it's masala movie, if u expect something like heavy story line n concept, it'll be a big disappointment for you. it has a very racy screen play and u'll enjoy the movie if you have least expectations.

Negatives:

-1) The extensive usage of languages, kamal being a perfectionist, he tries too much on languages and often people miss what he's trying to convey. the poovaragan char, will speak nellai tamil and it's very pure that even nellai people wont understand !!!!!
-2) The most pathetic Asin - I wished Fetcher should have killed her instead of mallika sherawat........perumaale..mudiyala !!!

Overall, it's paisa-vasool entertainer, go,just enjoy and forget all ur troubles for 3 hrs !!!!

Chumma !!!!!

I take forms of my boundaries or else i'm free flowing....
Defeat affects me, but success kills me...
Once spiritual now blank....
i never satisfied with what i have....
i lie most time...
i dont beleive destiny....
i know, the world is not revolving around me....
i like to move my left side always....
thats it...this is me

I told Yogesh, what i want to write...he re-phrased and gave this piece...really liked it !!!!

I take forms of my boundaries
Else i'm free flowing....

Defeat affects me
But success kills me...

I reached my spiritual peak
And rendered me completely blank...

I disbelieve destiny
Knowing world doesn't revolve around me


I like to move my left side
But that has nothing to do with my lies...

I'm hardly content
But that's the content!

My First short film !!!!

Last week received a call from subbuni, asked to act in his short film. I was thrilled, i always wanted to do something of this sort. we had done lots of culturals in College and also @ inter-college culturals, but then this was different. He sent the script 24 hrs prior the shooting and told that i play the role of SAI. i checked in the script and i cant find my name et all.....(just 2 page script) got ferry and then did a ctrl+f on that pdf doc and found my character.......OH MY GOD !!!!

It was a dumb person role...i knew that something of this sort will happen , coz from college these morons used to cast me in role which gets more symphathised with the audience. I never had a chance to speak in stage and i beleived that atleast this time i'll get a chance but alas....all in vein. FORGOT....people are not that lucky to hear my voice (vidra vidra, apidiye maintain pannu sooona paaana !!!!)

On 31-May-2008, we set out our journey for shooting, the cast includes me, shanm, subbuni, athivaasi, oscar nayagan jalpathi and Roman(from german). We parked the car in a no man land and still we got attention from a security guard. he never leaved the place for next 3-4 hrs. namma makkal camera va paatha pothum, udaney kootam potruvaainga !!!!! The script is so simple, a guy travelling in a car asks for "BDA complex" and then he will be guided in hindi and telugu. they dont know both so they ask the person to explain it in tamil, english or kannada...the guy who shows way got frustu and leaves the place. then they ask a person crossing the road, who's a dumb(athaan naan), i will tell them that i cant talk but then i'll show them the directions with gestures....avlothaaan.

First athivaasi(also called as hari) took the steering and tried some stunts like, how to start the car, how to change the gear, how to release hand brake etc...when asked he said he was driving car with shumacher in germany. (adi koyyala !!!!). we completed the first shot in 4 angles, subbuni can be a core competitor for PC Sriram. (i meant the size), he took the same shot in 4 different angles and everybody gave four different performances !!!!(ippave kannai kattudhe). Then atlast we completed first part and went to next street to take the continuation shot. as we have some pro-actors like me in that shot, we completed it in 30 mins(hi hi hi hi hi hi). Then the last part, that's after i leave the place there'll be couple of eye-opening messages, we shot that in another 20 mins and winded up. Now i'll explain the characters:

Subbuni: clearly the director, he think like a director, concentrates on minute details and continuity. he's brilliant guy but is more satisfied with onsite trips and short vacations , so he wont get into big screen. he posses all characters of a director, he gets frutrated when the shot is not OK, he takes care of lighting etc...good work subbuni

Athivaasi: Hari, clearly a nice guy pretending to be a jerk and he always fails in his attempts. he came in some yo-yo costume but the sad part is that the angle of the camera just covered his shoulder n above. he's little disappointed with this, he tried his best to come whole in frame which subbuni carefully avoided. Also he's men of wise words(that means nobody can understand), he was explaing the theory of human nature to react in front of the camera et all....but as usual nobody was listening. i beleived that he'll ran over a guy with car and his unique driving abilities, lucily it didnt happen.

Oscar nayagan jalpathi: Aiyoo saami, mudiyala....he was prompting his dialogue and he was practicing overnight, but he raised all our BP in the name of acting. he took 45 mins to deliver a simple dialogue "Kya kannada, english...poora basha baath karne ke liye mein guide hain kya??? chalo !!!" thats it, idukku engala saavadichuttaan...it was really un-bearable.

Shanm: the king of sarcasm...behaved as usual. after the shot he asked for touch-up...ada paavigala !!!!! he's also a good actor having some presence of mind and skills.

Roman: clearly no idea what was goin on , he was blank but he gave his best part @ the climax. it was the finishing touch for the story.

will upload the video somewhere and give the link soon !!!! Altogether it was a nice experience and get-together...we are planning for more films in future :-)