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Dasavatharam

Year:
Duration:
Australia:189 min (theatrical version)
Genres:
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
IMDB rate:
7.1
Director:
K.S. Ravikumar
Awards:
2 wins & 5 nominations
Details
Country: India
Release Date: 2008-06-12
Filming Locations: Orlando Science Center - 777 East Princeton Street, Orlando, Florida, USA
Earnings
Opening Weekend: INR 300,000,000 (India) (4 March 2009)
Gross: $57,058,000 (Worldwide) (4 January 2009)
Cast
Actor
Character
Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan
Dasavatharam
Asin
Kothai / Andaal / Radha
Mallika Sherawat
Jasmine
Napolean
Kulothunga Chola II
Jayapradha
Ranjitha Kaur
P. Vasu
Politician
Nagesh
Sheikh Mukhtaar
K.R. Vijaya
Muslim women
M.S. Bhaskar
Guide
Santhana Bharathi
Goon
Akash
Inspector Bharat
R. Sunder Rajan
Politician
Chakri Toleti
Sai Ram
Ramesh Khanna
Doctor (as Ramesh Kanna)
Chitti Babu
CID
Srihari
Chara
(as Chara)
Rekha Mallick
Meenakshi (as Rekha)
Vaiyapuri
CID (as Vayyapuri)
Kantharaj Kasthuri
Medical Doctor
S.V.S. Kumar
Radha Mehta
Scientist
Raghuram
Rajesh
(as Rajesh [USA])
Ken Baranda
Hiro - Japanese Agent
Chris Cavallaro
Lab Technician
Dustin Dyson
Ben Jordan
Richard Andrew Evans
Undercover Crime Scene Technician
Brian Jennings
Chief of Home Land Security
Kylie Koscoe
Scientist
Nathena Lewis
Lab Technician
Randy Molnar
Race Car Driver
Tony Morales
Lab Technician
Michael Mosher
American Immigration Office
Tom Myers
Crime Scene Technician
Randy Robinson
Lead Detective
David W. Scott
Lab Tech / Detective
Steven Shaver
Lab Technician
Jason Tripp
Ben - Scientist
Brewier Welch
Scientist
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Trivia
Kamal Haasan make-up as the United States President took six hours to apply.
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The term "Dasavatharam" is used in Hindu mythology to depict the ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu. Kamal Haasan plays ten characters in this film.
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The score for song "Ulaga Nayagan" was copied from the song "Why Does It Happen in Love?" from Dil Maange More!!! (2004), which also had music by Himesh Reshammiya.
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Goofs
Shingen Narahashi's sister fights of Fletcher at her house. She is pushed into the bath tub. When the fight sequence resumes, her clothes (and hair) are completely dry.
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In the scene where Avatar Singh and Govindarajan are in the lift, Avatar Singh is seen to be leaving first while Govindarajan pretends to talk on his cellphone. If one looks closely, Govindarajan is holding his Nokia 3310 the wrong way - the screen is visible toward the camera. Possibly intended.
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Faq
Q
Why does the camera go up the tower and back down in the 12th century? Why can't they just go through the tower?
A
There is a reason behind that shot. The camera goes to the very top of the temple tower from the ground, and then comes down. During 12th Century, Ramanujar, who is revered as the prophet of Hinduism, climbed to the top of a temple tower in Thirukoshtiyur in the southern state of Tamil Nadu and sang praise of Lord Vishnu which are well documented even today. This particular shot tries to show the audience, Ramanujar's point of view and at the same time imply how, we humans who divide ourselves based on societies and religions and casts and sects and color seem like ants from up above.
Q
What does chaos theory has to do with this film?
A
A seemingly independent stand-alone event starts a series of cause and effect kind of events that affect the lives of so many others. The final motive of the design is to bring the bio-hazardous vial to the beach at the precise moment, just before the tsunami. A little earlier or a little later, the effects would have been much more devastating. So what happens is that, each and every character who intersect with the path of the vial, slows down or speeds up its journey in such a way that it reaches the beach at the right moment. By doing so, it also influences each of their lives in a drastic way, from saving Kalifulla's family from Tsunami, to curing Krishnaveni's mental illness. This is an off-beat way of utilizing the chaos theory to lay a strong foundation to the story which doesn't just touches each character and walks off.
Q
What is the connection between the 12th century event and the rest of the film?
A
The movie explains about karma, vishna avatars, butterfly effect and chaos theory right from beginning itself. the 12th century scene is connected in three ways to the rest of the film. 1) In religious terms, Rangaraja Nambi is related to matsya avatar(fish), one of the ten avatars of vishnu in hinduism, the small fish(nambi) dropped in the ocean grows to become the largest one(tsunami) destroying the world with huge waves for good cause. 2) In scientific terms, butterfly effect connects the 12th century to rest of the film by tsunami in the climax which was due to disturbance and faults caused by the idol in the tectonic plates in the 12th century. and 3)Karma, It is also religious but unknown to everyone, in 12th century Rangaraja Nambi(kamal) is ready to sacrifice his life for lord vishnu, while his wife Kothai Radha(asin) is ready to sacrifice lord vishnu for sake of her husband where both husband and wife die tragically in front of the idol, in the present life, Govindarajan Ramaswamy(kamal) is a man believes in science only and Andaal(kamal) is the one ready to sacrifice her life for the idol, she carries along both of them express their feelings in the climax after the tsunami in front of the huge idol which was dropped in the ocean in the 12th century to fulfill their karma. for those who believe in god, the first and third will help them and those who do not, butterfly effect is the solution.
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