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| Failure
of the 11th Avatharam |
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17, 2008 |
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After generating enough curiosity and
inflating my expectation balloon quite
high, which is natural since this legend
has mesmerized us with dual/multiple roles
in past films like MMKR and Indian, this
movie felt deflated and bust. It is nowhere
near the league of Nayagan or Indian.
It is needless to say that Kamal - the
actor, like always, gave his very best
- but unfortunately none of the roles
here will go into Kamal's top 10 performances.
The primary reason is because Kamal -
the story and screenplay |
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Writer-
failed. His overall effort is still very commendable and the
movie is worth a watch primarily for the effort.
I came out of the theatre disappointed for several reasons,
some of which are mentioned below. |
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Biggest
disappointment was the confusing and incoherent story
line. What starts of interestingly with something about
a certain Chaos theory really gets lost after that.
When you hear the title Dasavatharam, you tend to expect
some relation between the 10 characters –nothing
of that sort happens here and it just turns out that
Kamal has done 9 other roles which could have been done
by other regular support artists.
Make-up was not really up to the mark. Baring a couple
of roles most others had a glossy plastic look. Many
of the roles' make-up quality were only as much artificial
as the ones in Citizen. Balram Naidu was the least plastic
and among the better ones.
Poor graphics in many scenes. Water graphics in 12th
century was too artificial. The tsunami effect was below
average. The coloring of the butterfly was not natural
and did not blend in with the scene. In short you’ll
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Lack of repeat value - lack of exciting songs. There isn't
anything
compelling in the movie to pull you back into the theatre
for another viewing. (Except for maybe trying to understand
the story better or maybe for Balram's interrogation scene).
For such a big budget movie I think it is a significant problem.
The songs are very average and you shouldn't be surprised
if you do not see it often on cable TV.
In short, this could have been a medium budget movie.
vijay.ilavarasan@gmail.com
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