Dasavataram - Itself a victim of Chaos Theory?

STATUTORY WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS INJURIOUS TO THE PSYCHE OF KAMAL
FANS)

Friends,

Dasavataram, which released recently, is supposed to be based on
Chaos Theory & its Butterfly Effect. The concept is supposed to be
this: seemingly unrelated & unconnected incidents happeneing at
different places & even different points of time, are unknowingly
(to us) connected. This is some sort of a loose understanding of
the concept by me. I request people who know about the Chaos
concept to confirm the same.

I will try to explain the Chaos Theory and its Butterfly Effect thru
a real-life example.

The Chaos Theory & its Butterfly Effect might have started in a
press conference that happened on August 19, 2005, in Ragavendra
Mandapam in Chennai, wherein Thalaivar Rajinikant announced to media
persons that he is going to act in his next movie which will be
produced by AVM Productions and directed by Shankar, which was later
christened as Sivaji - The BOSS.

I think that announcement about Rajini-Shankar dream combo & the
fabulous reaction it generated among the masses and the media &
internet was the TRIGGER POINT or BUTTERFLY EFFECT which ultimately
resulted in the Kamal movie Dasavataram being declared as bombed at
the box office now.

Please read along the following chronological events, which will
explain this theory:

1. Sivaji announcement with Rajini-Shankar dream combo happens
2. Media going ga-ga with Rajini & Sivaji news, cover stories, etc.
3. Sivaji mania grips the entrie media in TN & internet for months
on end thus sidelining all other actors & their projects
4. Perturbed by this, and in order to grab the attention of the
media away from Sivaji & Rajini and towards himself, actor Kamal
thinks of a way to upstage Rajini. He concludes that the only way
to grab more attention or at least some attention to be drawn his
way was for himself to don 10 roles in his next film.
5. So, Kamal announces Dasavataram project with the USP of himself
playing 10 different characters in it - one-up on thespian Sivaji's
9 role Navaratri & one-up-manship on Sivaji-The Boss
6. Kamal also takes up 3 more roles - that of Story, Screenplay and
Dialogues writer of Dasavataram - in order to control all his
charcters & how & for how long they appear in the movie.
7. In his single minded pursuit of somehow creating & enacting 10
roles in Dasavatram, Kamal sacrifices the tightness/grip in its
screenplay.
8. With such a lose screenplay, Kamal introduces 10 different
characters but all of them lack proper characterisation since Kamal
finds it impossible to dwelve on any one character for too long a
time within the movie's running time of 3 hours.
9. Too many characters also forces Kamal to resort to many facial
masks to differentiate them & create hype but those thick plaster of
paris masks & make-up prevents Kamal's acting/facial expressions
from being seen by the audience, who, thus, are not able to relate
to any of those characters. Thus, Kamal's only USP of good acting
is swept clean by his own foolish zeal on 10 roles & make-up.
10. Moreover, due to the unprofessional make-up, most of those
characters look amaturish & give the feeling that the audience is
watching a Fancy Dress/Mask Competition in a school function.
11. In order to differentiate the characters, Kamal is also forced
to resort to different voice-overs for each character, thus making
such voice-overs undecipherable to the audience leaving them unable
to follow the happenings on screen.
12. Lose screen-play with no viewer interest in most of the 10 roles
makes audience to lose interest in the movie in mid-way itself and
they get bored even though they are seeing it for the first time.
13. With Kamal's main USP of acting/emoting missing for the large
part, people come out of the theatres very much disappointed &
dissatisfied. Thus, a good Hollywood-type plot, has been botched up
by Kamal's foolish fetish to do 10 roles.
14. If this is the reaction in A centres and multi-plexes, who are
supposed to be a sophisticated audience, one can imagine the fate of
Dasavataram in B & C areas.
15. Aaskar Films, who poured crores of money, like water, into the
making & promotion of Dasavataram, ultimately goes the Kalaipuli
Dhanu way, ending up on the losing side.
16. Dasavataram, whose story is supposed to be based on Chaos
Theory, thus, itself becomes a victim of that theory.

I hope all of you now understand how Chaos Theory works.


Article written by
Arun from Bangalore