Dasavatharam... Disappointment... 10 times over!!!??

After reading enough and more raving reviews of Dasa... I finally went to see the movie, not that it was my first choice but that was the only ticket I could get!

Knowing the premise (thanks to the reviews) I was expecting chaste tamil in the start of the movie and so it was. Tamil not being my native language, I knew it was going to be a lot of effort on me just to follow the details of the plot. To top it all, I was accompanied by a friend of mine, who knows Tamil to the extent that the knowledge can be counted on fingers, needed me to translate almost the entire movie!

The storyline has nothing to really boast of neither was the way it was treated... nor did they try doing that (thank god for small mercies)! The movie was made only for the "Universal Hero" to be showcased and the marketing was all around his 10 roles! And they did just that.

Songs and music has already been written off! Mr. Reshamia does a very average job of it! I am sure Rahul Vaidya would have done better.

So why do I say I am disappointed? Especially when I am only repeating what others have said so far... it's the production value this movie brings to the screen. Tacky at best.

From the start to the end the movie has so many scenes with computer graphics (CG) that the animator lost interest in finishing his work and gave the draft version for production! And as the movie was running behind schedule Mr. Hasan just decided to go with what he had in hand. Or did Mr. Hasan decide to cut cost due to that and did not make the promised payment... still needs to investigated into!

What? You didn't see the CG effect? You thought it was all real sets? Real people? and Real temples? and real waves? If so, then either you are blind, a huge fan of Mr. Hasan or plain out right technologically challenged!

The temples in that era were very colourful and the only colour I saw on the Gopuram as the camera went up and down the length of it (throwing it in your face to see the tackyness) was grey; The walk down the river left a lot to be desired to convince that it was an actual river... the boats moved fast in the water but the scenery around it seemed unchanged... and not one person's clothing got wet!!!

The make up that is much touted for the 10 roles and the success of the movie was average at best and shabby in parts. When Mr. Avtar (the pop singer) is coming out of the airport, you can see his beard also coming off from the left side! The face of Mr. Fletcher looks out of proportion and makes him look like a dwarf (reminds me of another movie made without any of this technology and much better executed).

Asin does a fantastic cry baby job who understands nothing (and takes no effort either) of what is happening around her, except run behind "Her Perumal" and crib when being connected with Govind! Kudos to her for making me cringe in my seat and wanting to go home even before the interval!

Oh… not to mention the much raved about Tsunami scene was technically so flawed that I just couldn't digest. The water just rises and falls. Anybody who has read even a little about Tsunamis… knows that water first recedes before coming like that huge wave! Hell even the serial (Surface) I was watching the other day on Star World had its facts right and did a much better job of showing the Tsunami with much lesser CG!

Yes, I did not need to know Tamil to understand the plot or any of the flaws I am pointing out here but the Butterfly theory... try throwing a pebble in a pond and wait for a few centuries for the Tsunami... Sounds like there might be more holes that I did not see.. Lucky Mr. Hasan... must be thanking his stars for that!

All in all... money well wasted if you went to the theater and saw it!

I could go on and on telling you why not to see the movie... but I am sure I have passed that point of boring you to death with my thoughts on the movie. So if you are still reading it, either it's because you like my style of writing and me or you just don’t have anything better to do!

Cheers... till the next time!

The whining wife of the world... US of A

I am sure you all would be pretty amused with why I am calling US of A the WIFE, when everyone seems to be calling them the BIG BROTHER or UNCLE SAM!

For starters, it wants to control every action any other country makes/takes and whines when she can't control it! Goes ranting about it in every forum and then starts attacking it with available resources at hand's grasp!

Have you seen a cat fight? Well it does not get bigger than this in the international arena... USA vs. any oil producing country not on their side and wants to make/take their own business decisions!

Like an ever complaining wife, she is never satisfied with how much ever she is served by the world, she still wants more. A country ridden with debt trodden people and living on debt all their life, where does all the money, they get to spend, come from? Let me answer, it is the husbands' (sic) duty to provide for her, so like dutiful husbands the rest of the world keeps giving her the money in hope it will come back to them (exports to USA)!

Like a typical attention seeking wife, she screams when she sees a problem coming towards her, point in case the recession. Though it's all her fault for going into a recession… what else do you expect a debt ridden country to go through... it now becomes the husbands' (sic) problem, as they are courting her and don't want her to suffer... so they take the tantrum... and there goes the oil prices soaring through the roof!

Don't see the connection... oil billing is done in US Dollar! Iraq wanted to switch to Euro billing! Raising oil prices through futures trading by the big 4 investment Banks (all US based Banks).... generates money for them! Both, by transactions and speculation!

Connect the dots between politics, money and power (no Russia as superpower) and you will see the whining wife of the world!

And yes, it's never the wife's fault, be it Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam or North Korea.

The only trait that makes her stand out unlike a wife is, that a wife is at least ready to forgive her husband when it's her fault!

Cheers!

P.S. - I am not an MCP or sexist nor do I have anything against Americans. It’s just the policies of their government that does not go down well with me!

Finally.... the first one!

All right.... first things first... Welcome to my blog!

You are here because either I asked you to or someone I know asked you to! As an extreme case you got lucky with a search engine and landed here! Either ways... Welcome!

Didn't know where to start so asked a few friends what I should write about and got some ideas... but nothing that hit home. It was only when I was trying to search for a decent picture for the profile did I realise (apart from realising that I had very few to choose from) that this is going to be my topic… choices we make!

We all complain that we would like to have a better control of our lives. Hell the amount of choices we make every day... don't believe me... hang on... defies the fact if someone says that they don't control their lives. Like me finally launching my blog! You deciding to read it... and continue to read it even a this point when you had a choice not to log in (even though I asked you to) or the search engine gave you other links!

We make choices at every stage from getting up and taking a particular route to work... even deciding if you want to go or call in sick! People complain they don't have the time to socialize due to the hectic work they have... and who suggested these awkward work timings of more than 12-14 hours every day... not your boss, not your company policy, not your colleagues... you choose the direction which lead to it. They merely influenced. Just the way after certain age your family is influences your decisions, but they don't make them for you... you still control your life.

I could go on to drive the point but you are smart and get the point I am trying to convey. Moreover anything longer and you will choose to sleep in front of the computer or close this window!

Cheers!