Browsing Internet at blasting high speeds has its own advantages and majority of the educated population of the world at least knows about it. So I would not let you get bored by advocating for it. But one big wide disadvantage is availability of mis-informational crap in the form of streaming movies, which online movie channels often advertise as "without buffering".
Me and my wife got this golden opportunity to watch Dashavatar ("Dasha" from now), a highly talked-about flick which was a dream project of Kamal Hasan (forgive me if I have misspelled his oh-so-numerologically-correct name). If films like Vettaiyadu Vilayadu held matter, Dasha nullifies them with a high content of anti-matter. Result: Annihilation. Well, let me now list down the minuses of Dasha(in increasing order of severity):
1. A Tamil movie dubbed in Hindi has always maintained a low success rate and Dasha proves it once again.
2. Asin, who is one of the very few good looking actresses of South Indian film industry, is nothing but an irritating chatter-box in Dasha. Her role is an annoying one, where not only she adds no value to the film but also increases the noise pollution levels of your surroundings. Not sure if the dubbing artist got over excited or was it the dialogue writer's creativity that led her to do this. Did I tell you Dasha's dialogues were written by Kamal himself?
3. Extremely poor animation which has been added to serve no purpose makes this flick a torture technique. I remember making my friends go under such torture when we watched Bobby Deol starrer "Bichchu" in Bangalore. Kamal's affiliation towards such animation started with Hey Ram where anything and anyone that Ram the protagonist imagines metamorphizes into digitally created flowers, thorns and guns. Similar animations were tried to please the public in Abhay, another multi-role movie from Kamal, but in vain.
4. The story starts with our protagonist giving a lecture in a stadium about spirituality and religion, strays away to a CIA led chase of a USA-based Indian scientist and ends up in a Tsunami. Please don't ask about the connections among the three.
5. Kamal experiments again with a multi-role act which is uncalled for and irritated me to the core. Why would such a fine actor want to play George W Bush, a Chinese martial arts master and a Punjabi pop singer among others? May be to do justice to the film's title rather than to it's story. He did a commendable job in Chachi 420 but lacks vision and has no mission in enacting such roles as in Dasha. Not to mention, the make-up was visible and was not wisely done.
6. To conclude, neither the movie convey any message to the viewer nor does it entertain in any way. Given a chance, I would recommend Kamal to break it into a collection of short stories and present it on the small screen in the form of a tele soap. The physical disconnect between each story may make the viewer interested a bit but as far as other aspects of acting, animation, dialogs and screen-writing go, I take pride in taking no guarantees.
I think it is time Kamal thinks about cinema as a channel to reach out to people. And may God give him the strength to keep his creative thinking to himself. This way he can enjoy his dreams on his own and not make non-critics like me criticize the Mahanayak. Bas avatar bas!!
