12 ஆம் நூற்றாண்டும் 21 ஆம் நூற்றாண்டும்...

Dasavatharam - The Link between the 12th Century and 21st Century Avatars!!

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’s most important.” Now if u see the climax its 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…

Another explanation (and this is slightly far fetched— as explained earlier) is that Govind is in fact the reincarnation of Nambi. As Nambi he couldn’t protect God and died in the name of God. In order to fulfill his Karma, he is reincarnated as Govind Ramasamy who ultimately saves the world from destruction. The idol in the end somewhat hints to this theory; his story began with the idol and it ends with the idol.

As far as the connection with Nambi character and events in 12th Century goes… The connection is based on the “Butterfly effect “.

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 hen Kothai rips her Thaali 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.During the encounter with Santhana Bharathi in the sand quarry, it is repeat of the incident from 12th century. Instead of Kulothunga Chozhan, it is the Sand Mafia, which tries to inflict damage on the land.
This movie is a brilliant juxtaposition of independent characters whose paths cross, if only briefly, which is stunning example of Chaos Theory.

The idol that is drowned in the sea along with Rangarajan in 12th century by Chozha 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 again is a classic case of Butterfly Effect wherein a seemingly inconsequential event (the drawing of the idol) saves Tamil Naadu from being wiped out off the face of the earth.

But 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… Many people missed this dialogue I guess. Kamal’s accent was so very perfect Tamil, that many people missed it…. Being perfect is a Problem by Itself!!!

Although the explanation is a least possible theory, that is what “Chaos Theory” And “Butterfly Effect” is all about. 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…

Why just say this concept is perfectly illogical… it is possible… that’s what I have been explaining all the while!!! The story line is that things going wrong are made to be right which involves many people and countries knowingly or unknowingly.

விஷ்ணு அவதாரமும் கமலின் தசாவதாரமும்...

Kamal Dasavatharam vs Vishnu Dasavatharam

One thing we had noticed is why people didn’t get the real subtext and reason for the various roles and hence the title. If you knew the real dasavatharams (Avatars) of Lord Vishnu and their characters you can appreciate the script more. Let me explain, starting with the best adapted role:

1. Krishna Avatar - Vincent Poovaraghavan
Lord Krishna is actually a Dalit, he is dark-skinned [Shyamalam]. 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. Oh even five of Vincent’s men are drugged at P. Vasu’s house. Sounds familiar???

2. Balarama Avatar - Balaram Naidu

This is an easy given. As the name suggests and the role personifies you can easily get it.

3. Mathsya Avatar - Rangaraja 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 - Kalifullah 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 that’s 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 the entire name itself is a play on the words Singam [means Lion in Tamil] and Narasimha [the avatar being symbolized]. Lord Narasimha manifests himself 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 symbolizing 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 - Govind Ramasamy

As you know, the hero in Kaliyug can be none other than the Kalki Avatar!!!

10. Koorma Avatar - Bush

This is the loosest 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 between 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…

This is just a bad attempt to provide the reason for the title… Last but not least Kamal You’re A Genius (Although I chuckled to hear the dialogue, which is uttered by Kamal Hassan “You’re A Genius” at some scenes in the film).

Hint: The 'Mukundha Mukundha' song will explain all about The Ten Avatars of Lord Vishnu. One must listen carefully to the lyrics of the song. The song is the highlight in the movie.

Here are the links that provide additional information about The Ten Avatars of Lord Vishnu:
http://members.tripod.com/~srinivasp/mythology/avatars.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar
http://www.balagokulam.org/kids/stories/dashavatara.php

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Dasavatharam Review… and understanding Chaos Theory with Indian Karma!!!

First of all I would like to discuss only about the story and the screenplay by Kamal and not his acting. His acting is something that he has proved to perfection in lots of other movies and this movie is not to prove it once again but to continue that stand. So the review of this considering acting and the perfection in it is same as lots of other his movies. I’ll give my review on the story and the screenplay, which many people say they have not liked…

We all say certain things are not good. I give u a page long equation to and say this is brilliant. U won’t go to agree with me because u hasn’t understood the equation at all. So this is the case with dasavatharam. First forget about all Tamil movies u have watched recently and get into the mood of understanding chaos theory … so I’ll explain chaos theory first with my own examples…

Say Alice comes to u and asks u “what’s the time.” u finds your watch is not working and look for the time in cell phone. But your cell phone is locked and is in your packet. And u take it out, unlock the cell phone see the time and tell it to Alice. Alice says thanks Bob and turns back to find a car about to run over a blind man. And Alice Shouts out to that blind man and saves him… Now it’s for the chaos theory. If u, Bob, had your watch working, Alice would have left the place long ago and wouldn’t have seen the car and the blind man in the right time to save it… So u locking the cell phone and keeping it in your packet has played an important role in saving a blind man. In fact this locking of cell phone could have been triggered by some other event. So it might be that event that saved the blind man… So THIS is chaos Theory … So view the story of dasavatharam in terms of this… its difficult to understand. But the pleasure and insight u get after understanding it is unbounded. It’s like a maternity of a mother… it’s differ to go thro it but after that it’s splendid (I hope I didn’t mess up with the example)

Now Think about each role that comes in the movie u will find the zigzag complete… the 12th century Kamal, if he had been saved by GOD in that instance, the stone would not have gone to the ocean to trigger a tectonic imbalance to cause a tsunami 1000 years later.. So if u just view it as separate events, it makes no sense. But the second event is highly because of the magnification of the effect of first event. Similar to the keeping the cell phone locked inside your pocket has no significance to u. But it means a life to some body else… I am not saying. His life is in cell phone. But considering the series of events happening, your cell phone played a big role. This is called BUTTERFLY effect. A small movement of the wings of butterfly might get magnified as a big hurricane somewhere else…

Now so in a sequence of events, say the place where Fletcher kills the Japanese guys sister. If he hadn’t done that, he would not have met his end later.
So its all what we call Karma. The pros and cons of event. People who just see the event are not amused at it. But those who take the pain of going thro of pros and cons get a joy no bounds.

And some have been questioning if bullets can cure cancer… cancer cells are there in each of us body…. cancer cells are dangerous when their number in our body grows alarmingly… so what the docs do is just cut out those bad cancers cells growing at faster rate… the bullet simply did that. In fact anything that cuts it off cures cancer to tell it in a simple way (though cancer is not as simple as that. just for the sake of understanding there is nothing logically flawed). And the bullet did that …

So to put it in a nutshell not even many Hollywood people have thought of chaos theory much. Few films have come on that and an INDIAN film is based on chaos theory. So people if u don’t understand the story don’t consider the story to be stupid, the story is indeed cleverly woven and is right in front of u.. All it takes is a bit of gray cells work to discover the joy. Now Kamal has succeeded in that. Hats off to him for being so creative… Though the movie is at places showing off the Indian graphics standard, at most of the first half and climax fight, its world class… and its worth a thrice watch at least…

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ஓ மானுடமே!
நீ பெரிது நான் பெரிது
ஏமாற்றிக்கொள்வதால்தான்
எத்தனை மகிழ்வு நமக்குள்?
எதனை சாதித்திருக்கிரும்
உன்னை நான் சுரண்டுவது
என்னை நீ சுரண்டுவது தவிர…
கீழே தள்ளிவிட்டு மேலே நின்று
கைக்கொட்டி சிரிப்பதையே
கலையாகக்கொண்டு வாழ்கிறோம்…
ஒரு நாள் நாமும் விழக்கூடும்
என்பதனை அறியாமல்!

காலத்தின் தீர்ப்பு...

சீர்குலைந்து கிடக்கும் எங்கள் வாழ்வை
சீர்செய்ய போவது யார்?
சிந்தனையை கிளர்கிறது மனம்…
கைக்கூலியாக வந்த என்னினம்
சமத்துவம்பெரும் நாள் எப்பொழுது?
அட்டை கடிக்கும்,
பாம்பு கடிக்கும், கஷ்டப்பட்டு
அடிமையான என் சமுதாயம் விழிப்பு
அடைவது எப்படி, எப்பொழுது?
தலையில்போட்ட விதியென்றும்
தர்மம் செத்துபோச்சினு புலம்பி
தனிமையில் வீரவசனம் பேசி…
மலைபோல குவிந்திருக்கும் குற்றங்கள்
மரணசாசனங்களின் குவியல்களில்
மனசாட்சிகளின்றி…
தெளிவு பெறாத துயர்கள் தூரப்போகும்
தெளிந்த சிந்தனைகள் மனதில் பதியும்
காலம் அதன் கடமையை
கட்டாயம் செய்யும்!

Nilaa

எண்ணிப் பார்க்க இதயம் வேண்டும்,

இயக்கி செல்ல துணிவு வேண்டும்....

Kalaivani : அன்பு

நெஞ்சதில் மலர்ந்து,
கண்களிலே துளிந்து,
உதடுகளில் உதிர்ந்து,
நம்மை ஊமையாகும்,
அன்புக்கு மொழிகள் தேவையில்லை,
உணர்வே போதும் !!!

Ananggan : நினைவில் நின்றது

கத்தியின் கேள்வி

மனிதா,
வெங்காயத்தை நறுக்குபவன் நான்….
வீணாக நீ ஏன் கண்ணீர் சிந்துகிறாய்?

மேடை பேச்சு

பேசுகிறவர்கள் எல்லாருமே,
அறிந்தவர்கள் இல்லை…
அறிந்தவர்கள் எல்லாருமே,
பேசுவதும் இல்லை!

காதலனும் காதலியும்

நீ சூரியன்,
உன் பார்வையும் உன் சிரிப்பொலியும் என்மேல் படர்வதால்…
நான் பூமி,
உன்னையும் உன் நினைவுகளையும் சுற்றி கொண்டே இருப்பதால்…

உயிரை தருவேன்

உயிரை தருவேன் என்றேன்,
என் உயிரை நிஜத்தில் உனக்காக எடுப்பதற்காக…
மறுபடியும் உயிரை தருவேன் என்றேன்,
என் உயிரின் ஒரு பிரதியை நிஜத்தில் நீ சுமப்பதர்காகே…

Ananggan : நினைவில் நின்றது

* எதை செய்தாலும்,
அதில் முதலாவதாக இரு!

இல்லையேல்,
சிறப்பாக இரு!

அல்லது,
புதுமையாகவாவது இரு!

ஆனால்,
சுயநலவாதியாக இருக்காதே!

* பிரச்சனை என்பது,
மாறுவேடமிட்ட வெற்றி…

சிதையாத நெஞ்சம்,
கொண்டவர் காலடியில்,
அது பணிந்து நிற்கிறது…

* எல்லாரும் மாற்றத்தை,
விரும்புகிறார்கள்…

தாங்கள்,
மாறுவதை அல்ல!