“Dasavatharam”--- kamal hassan’s amazing performance,director k.s. Ravikumar’s dream project.aaskar ravichandran’s big budjet film, Its Kamal haasan's show all through!!!!  The Story Line for Dasavatharam is very simple; it's just a TWO LINER  Some people are telling that they don't find a story in the movie. In this movie, the concept of storytelling has been revolutionized by a strong screenplay weaving the 10 characters of Kamal Hassan. The screenplay is the story by itself, and it has been done intelligently In a movie having 10 roles, the only thing to think about or expect in a story is, “How exactly are all the 10 roles banded together to a single thing, well mostly  co-incidentally banded". As a matter of fact even in real life, the meeting of TEN different varied people can be only co- incidental-- not a planned one. Well, this is what happens in the movie, which is supported by brilliant and bold effort of Kamal Hassan which talks about the physics of Chaos theory, Butterfly Effect, Karma and cycle of life. The film opens with a bird's eye view of Chennai were Kamal is giving a Speech, and takes the audience to the past -- the 12th century. In Chidambaram, Vaishnavaites and Shaivaites are in perpetual conflict with the former taking the position that Lord Vishnu is supreme and the Shaivaites being steadfast in their faith in Shiva. King Kulothunga thozhan (Napoleon), a Shaivaite, forces Nambi (Kamal), a staunch Vaishnavite, to worship Shiva. As Nambi rebels, the king sentences him to death. On the orders of the King, his soldiers throw Nambi into the oceans tied to a stone image of Lord Vishnu. Nambi's wife Kothai (Asin) also dies from shock.From this 12th century episode, the story moves to the 21st century. Action begins in the United States where Govindaraj(kamal) is part of a team of scientists working on a virus. If exposed to the elements it can spread rapidly and kill millions of people. Coming to know of it, baddies (again a team led by Kamal, this time as Christian Fletcher, a former CIA agent) try to acquire it to use it in a bio-war. By mistake, the virus comes in a parcel to India. Govindaraj and Fletcher come to India looking for the parcel which has reached Chidambaram.  Suspecting that Govindaraj has taken away the deadly virus, US President Bush (he too is Kamal), asks the Indian Government to apprehend him.In his journey to find the parcel containing the virus and destroy it, Govindaraj meets Andal (Asin) who is a staunch Vaishnavaite, Krishnaveni Paati( a 90-year-old woman) Kaifullah Khan;(a tall and innocent Muslim youth) , Avatar Singh(a Punjabi pop singer),Vincent Poovaragan( a Dalit leader), Shingen Narahashi (a Japanese martial arts teacher), Balaram Naidu (and an intelligence official (RAW) of the Government of India) (all are performed by kamal). Let us see how the 10  characters in this film indicating the 10 avatharams of lors mahavishnu.   1. Krishna avatar - Vincent Poovaraghan Lord krishna is actually a dalit, he is dark-skinned . He saved draupadi when she was being violated and he was the actual diplomat in mahabharatham. Lord krishna dies of an arrow striking his lower leg. Now look at how vincent was introduced.. He appears when asin is about to be molested and he saves her like draupadi. Vincent is the dalit diplomat, fights for land issue [soil issue to be exact] and dies from the metal rod striking his leg.      2. Balarama avatar - Balarama naidu This is an easy given. As the name suggests and the role personifies you can easily get it.     3. Mathsya avatar - Ranagaraja nambi nambi is thrown into water in an act of trying to save lord from being thrown into sea, though vainly. What more clues do you want?    4. Varaha avatar - Krishnaveni paatti During the mukunda song, krishnaveni paatti does varaha avatar in the shadow puppetry. The frame freezes on it for a second. There is the clue. Moreover, in varaha avatar lord actually hides earth so as to protect life forms. Here too krishnaveni hides the germs - life form inside the statue so as to protect.     5. Vamana avatar - Kalifulla khan Remember in vamana avatar, lord vishnu takes the vishvaroopa, that is the giant form! Hence the giant kalifulla here symbolises vamana avatar.    6. Parasurama avatar - Christian Fletcher Parasurama is actually on an angry killing spree and killed 21 generations of the particular kshatriya vamsa. Hence the real KILLER... Guess what thats what our Fletcher is! He comes around with the gun [modern upgrade for axe] and kills everyone around. I have to check if he kills 21 people though.      7. Narasimha avatar - Shingen Narahashi first of all the name itself is a play on the words singam [means lion in tamil] and narasimha [the avatar being symbolised]. Lord Narasimha manifests himelf to kill the bad guy and he also teaches prahaladha. In the movie, he shows up to kill the killer fletcher! And is also a teacher... Lord Narasimha had to kill the asura with bare hands and hence the martial arts exponent here.. Get it?     8. Rama avatar - Avatar Singh Lord Rama stands for the one man one woman maxim, kind of symbolising true love.. Here Avatar portrays that spirit by saying that he loves his woman more than anything and wants to live for her.     9. Kalki avatar - Govindaraj Ramasamy As you know, the hero in kaliyug can be none other than the Kalki avatar!!!      10. Koorma avatar - Bush This is the most loose adaptation I couldn't clearly comprehend. But if you look at the real koorma avatar, the lord is the turtle/tortoise that helps in stirring the ksheera sagara and bringing out the amruth. This essentially creates war among the devas and asuras. Similarly today Bush facilitates war between you know whom... May be Kamal also indicates that this avatar is a bit dumb like the tortoise...   Let us continue the story.The virus eventually falls into the hands of Fletcher. Who swallows it and dies when the intelligence official corners him with a gun. Then tsunami strikes Chennai inundating a stretch of the seashore in Chennai. Poovaragan (Kamal) drowns in the sea while being engaged in rescue operations. The Hidden Layers - Chaos theory, Butterfly Effect, Karma, Reincarnation and cycle of life: Here, Kamal speaks about the hidden layers, which form the base line of the movie. "This theory is under the skin of the film and You will find little veins, tissues and muscles, Every layer of it. One is the chaos theory — we are all connected to everyone in the world. None of our acts will be without effects. One act will collide with another. It is like what you learnt in physics — where one object crashes into another Object and produces something else. This is basically our Sensibilities, insensibilities, crime, disregard for society and good deeds. In religion, it is called good karma. It all comes around because there is some physics To it but we are not talking about it in bombastic terms as people will come for Entertainment and will understand it in the process". The movie clearly states about Chaos Theory and Butterfly Effect (Kamal says it in his Speech in the start of the Movie). The concept of "CHAOS THEORY" and "BUTTERFLY EFFECT", by itself is a complex concept, which mainly highlights the happening of huge unimaginable things because of least probable things...!!!! Dasavatharam, although deals with these concept, but does not necessarily confuse anyone with it. It's mainly "YOU"... that plays a factor in how the movie gets along with "YOU". Chaos Theory: The chaos theory says that every action is linked with one another either knowingly or unknowingly, in this Universe, that cannot be predicted by any means. Butterfly Effect: It is the most important component of a chaotic system. Basically, small perturbations results in amplifications which completely destroys the original nature of the system and makes prediction impossible. If a butterfly flaps its wings in Africa, it could result in a cyclone in USA.(Mark the word COULD, means there is some probability).A highly dumped down explanation of the butterfly effect is in the film Anniyan, where Vikram's sister dies because a liquor shop owner sells liquor on a dry day. How Chaos Theory and Butterfly System Used in Dasavatharam: Dasavatharam talks about this chaos theory by showing how different characters are responsible for the change in life pattern of scientist Govind and goes a step further by showing how Govind is responsible for the change in life patterns of these characters. Each character's actions and reactions will have an impact on the other character either knowingly or unknowingly. This can be understood with the following revelations: 1, Govind would have been killed by Fletcher, if there is no Narasahi(japanese). 2, if there is no Avtar singh, Fletcher and Govind would not have escaped from the chennai airport 3, If not Fletcher and govind's fight in the concert ground, Avtar singh would have gone for surgery and lost his voice 4, the 200 village people wouldn't have been alive if they were not asked to stay in the mosque for investigation regarding govind's case. This happened because of the CBI officer balram Naidu, when he hears Khalifulla khan spells about his father's contribution towards the mosque ·5, Poovaragan actually saved kamal unknowingly---when poovaragan enters kamal and asin were caught by those manal kollayargal(soil robbers).There poovaragan distracts the gang helping kamal to escape. 6, Vincent is a dalit leader of a lower caste (the so called) but saved an Iyengar Girl ......and at the end becomes the son of the Iyengar Paati !! ·7, Even Krishnaveni Patti plays a very important role.If she had not put the vial in the idol, maybe Govind would have recovered it then and there and a powerful weapon would have been unleashed. ·8, The George Bush is the one, who encouraged and allotted huge sum amount for the research and development of the Bio Weapon… Most importantly, the idol that is drowned in the sea along with Rangarajan in 12th century by thozha king results in a fault being developed at the bottom of the ocean and creates tremors more than 800 years later. These tremors result in the Tsunami. This Tsunami destroys the bio weapon. It’s not just the statue that caused the tsunami, but it just started a large chain of effects which kept multiplying exponentially and finally lead to it after 800 years (Butterfly effect).Actually kamal has not left anything for our imagination. Explanation struck the right chord, Kamal does tell to Asin in a dialogue that idol which gets sunken back then gets struck between the tectonic plates under the sea and causes tsunami. Also, the movie does Show “A Butterfly” flying across the screen after the Tsunami Attack, clearly indicating that the Tsunami is an Outcome of “The Butterfly effect ". So there is no question of unwanted extra roles or anything of that sort. Because every character have an impact on the storyline. All the 10 characters are well attached and very important!!! Karma, Reincarnation and Life cycle: The 1st scene is perfectly connected to the climax, remember what Kamal says in the 1st scene, that he will not say "Om Nama Shivaya" , but Asin tells him to chant it , but still Kamal refuses ,  in this kamal in his story tries to tell that Nambi believes in his god more than anything, but Asin feels "Its ok if we change the god or chant other god's name, its life that most important." Now if u sees the climax it’s JUST OPPOSITE.... Kamal doesn't believe in god much and values lives of people the most.... but Asin deeply believes in god and that too this dialogue comes when both Asin and Kamal's hand is on the god which came from the sea, and it also means that they are getting united from the place they departed hundreds of years back (Kamal and Asin).The connection between the 1st scene and the climax in the movie shows the generation circle combined with supernatural powers of GOD and destiny.....!!! When Govind and Andal goes to the bury the idol in the sands, Andal will stumble on a particular stone couple of times...This is the same stone as the one from 12th Century  Kothai(asin) rips her Thaali(the chain) and flings it at Kulothunga Chozan...it will end up hanging on the stone. So, the implied message here is Andal is Kothai reborn in the 21s century. Kamal shows his versatility in all the roles. Every frame is an experience in itself. Each of the characters played by Kamal has a different skin tone and a different make-up. Some people say the makeup is artificial. But till now, no actor has taken efforts even to do this make up. Kamal Hassan has shown a great difference in terms of lingo, body language, height, and theme from character to character, making each role distinctly different. The movie is a show of grandeur. Kamal makes it beyond the ordinary. His sheer audacity, magnificence and histrionics are simply spellbinding. And creativity is given new dimensions…….kamal Hassan-you are great……..