The Dasavatharam story is rich in stimulating the movie goer with thoughts. That way I would say that it is more like a modern art leaving untold things strewn all across the movie. Few things I observed and probably many others have are
1.
The concept of re-incarnation where the 12th century vaishnavite kamal and asin are reborn in 21st century. You call it fate or chaos theory, the vaishnavite kamal seem to be holding onto the idol in 12th century and is drowned by the chola king. Whereas in 21st century Asin, who was the wife of 12th century vaishnavite holds the idol all along. The same Asin will tell her husband to tell the Om Namashivaya whereas in 21st century she will be a staunch believer (like the 12th century kamal) in God. Similarly the 21st century kamal seem to be a sort of a agnostic (not athiest) like the 12th century Asin.
OVER TIME, the roles have reversed :-)
2.
The NACL (sodium chloride) needed to destroy the vial containing the deadly virus REQUIRES a Tsunami and it is exactly driven to the place where Tsunami happens in Nagappattinam from the labs in the USA by a series of twists and turns brought in by the 10 characters. It basically inches closer to its destination / climax
3.
Now the people who are God believers may say that point 2) above was possible because lord ranganatha who is within the Sea (thrown in 12th century) has ensured that the Vial travels to the place where Tsunami is going to be triggered by him (it can possibly be done in Phuket also :-)
Where as, the non-believers can comfortably latch on to Chaos theory
4.
There is also a thread where concern for environment (illegal sand lifting) is brought out which could potentially result in a natural disaster (like a Tsunami) several hundred years from now. Effectively it is Man's greed that triggers all disasters resulting in killing of his own race. This is also true with the scientists working on producing deadly virus and chemical weapons.
There are few flaws with the makeup (Kalifulla khan's was really glaring), few logic flaws, but overall a very impressive and absolutely stunning performance of the 10 characters by Kamal haasan. Obviously combining multiple layers of information and still bringing out into a harmony is like the Western classical Fugue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue) which is brought out in cinema that too in a tamil cinema.
The Tsunami effects were brought out very well. Appreciate the work done by all the crew of Dasavatharam and to say the last, "I like anything that has a lot of effort and hardwork strewn with intellectual thinking in it". And that seem to be this movie.
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