Dasavatharam - Chaos Theory, Kamal Haasan and Atheism
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This podcast is about the movie Dasavatharam. It starts off with a review about the movie and then proceeds on as a debate and a monologue about Chaos Theory and Atheism.
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Thanks 'Gandhiji'
I openly admit that when it comes to Kamal, I am indeed biased. I do tend to overlook his mistakes even in other movies and I admit it gladly, there is no hypocrisy here.
However, I think the truth is somewhere in between. Almost all reviews are the other end of the 'I-bash-everyone-because-that's-what-I-do-for-a-living' or 'Dasavatharam-deserves-an-Oscar'.
I think both of these claims, even meandering towards the respective ends of the spectrum are pure BS. My stand would be, or atleast I intended it to be somewhere in the middle, 'Neither is Dasavatharam a potential Oscar-nominee, nor is it the crappiest movie ever made, it is a good movie with some glaring flaws that I will overlook because it is Kamal'
If I have conveyed it, I'm happy, otherwise I am actually going to put up an additional addendum to this podcast.
Thanks for your comments :-) :-)
I openly admit that when it comes to Kamal, I am indeed biased. I do tend to overlook his mistakes even in other movies and I admit it gladly, there is no hypocrisy here.
However, I think the truth is somewhere in between. Almost all reviews are the other end of the 'I-bash-everyone-because-that's-what-I-do-for-a-living' or 'Dasavatharam-deserves-an-Oscar'.
I think both of these claims, even meandering towards the respective ends of the spectrum are pure BS. My stand would be, or atleast I intended it to be somewhere in the middle, 'Neither is Dasavatharam a potential Oscar-nominee, nor is it the crappiest movie ever made, it is a good movie with some glaring flaws that I will overlook because it is Kamal'
If I have conveyed it, I'm happy, otherwise I am actually going to put up an additional addendum to this podcast.
Thanks for your comments :-) :-)
great effort(you used tamil words as much as possible), but the end result wasn't great(was biased.. you sound like a Kamal fan who overlooked the movie's glaring mistakes) -- sort of like Dasavatharam, where Kamal's tremendous effort goes a waste.
I am very disappointed because this movie is touted as India's most ambitious movie.. It failed to deliver big time.
prosthetics were awful throughout.
the screenplay was awful.. he should have either made it into a taut thriller or a goofball comedy.. it ended up like an unintentional goofball comedy which forcefully thrust unwanted (physically) ugly characters on us.
i'd give some slack to the graphics because they wouldn't have that big a budget, to compete with Hollywood.. they should have refrained from claiming it is world-class.
I am very disappointed because this movie is touted as India's most ambitious movie.. It failed to deliver big time.
prosthetics were awful throughout.
the screenplay was awful.. he should have either made it into a taut thriller or a goofball comedy.. it ended up like an unintentional goofball comedy which forcefully thrust unwanted (physically) ugly characters on us.
i'd give some slack to the graphics because they wouldn't have that big a budget, to compete with Hollywood.. they should have refrained from claiming it is world-class.
Thanks Acharya :-)
It would be preposterous to imagine that there is a Janmam-Marujanmam connection to this whole story because that is too contrary to what the film tries to convey.
In Atheism/Agnosticism, you have one life and it is about making use of that one life. Kamal would have to be really foolish to talk about that in a film which doubts the very existence of theism.
Also, the Nambi-Idol thing, an idol that is about 300 Kg is NOT going to cause a Tectonic Plate movement. Even 1~3 MegaTon Nuke tests along the Pacific Bikini Atoll regions have not cause ANY changes to Tectonic Plates because they are too big to be moved by ANY man-made force. Ships which are way bigger than 25 Tons, that sink, cause no effect at all.
The link, in my interpretation is as I have put it, I don't see anything more than that. It is a premise that is being set to doubt the existence of god in the first place.
It would be preposterous to imagine that there is a Janmam-Marujanmam connection to this whole story because that is too contrary to what the film tries to convey.
In Atheism/Agnosticism, you have one life and it is about making use of that one life. Kamal would have to be really foolish to talk about that in a film which doubts the very existence of theism.
Also, the Nambi-Idol thing, an idol that is about 300 Kg is NOT going to cause a Tectonic Plate movement. Even 1~3 MegaTon Nuke tests along the Pacific Bikini Atoll regions have not cause ANY changes to Tectonic Plates because they are too big to be moved by ANY man-made force. Ships which are way bigger than 25 Tons, that sink, cause no effect at all.
The link, in my interpretation is as I have put it, I don't see anything more than that. It is a premise that is being set to doubt the existence of god in the first place.
