Dasa is about to unroll

Oscar Films Ravichandran produced much-hyped movie of the year, the Kamal Hassan-starrer Dasavatharam’s audio release is scheduled for April 25. Chennai is geared-up for the extravaganza which will host the Hong Kong born Hollywood star “Jackie Chan”. Mr. Ravichandran made a point to mention that the audio release of a legend’s movie must take place in front of a legendary action hero. The Nehru Indoor Stadium is being face-lifted for the hosting the gala on 25^th April. Its setting at Nehru Stadium would resemble the Hollywood amphitheatre set up for presenting the renowned Academy awards.

SHORT REVIEW OF MOVIE

Comprising of over two hours of computer graphics, the movie had took its own sweet time in post-production. The entire graphics is taken care by Hong Kong-based VA which did the graphics for the film "Day After Tomorrow". Every one must look out for the awesome tsunami effect on a two-acre spread artificially created and filmed at Uthandi on ECR, Chennai. About 50 Hollywood technicians had to be brought from US to train local technicians. For the visual effects, Bryan from Los Angeles had come to work with the unit.

Tamil and Telugu versions of the film is planned to be released simultaneously as for now, and other instalments in various Indian languages will follow-up. “Crazy” Mohan and late veteran scholar “Sujatha” had made the dialogues in Tamil version sound professional. Although the movie has strong story-line and star cast, its music and the artist are new to the Tamil audience. Himmesh Reshammiya, despite his busy schedule, composed five songs and spawned a remix but has not done the music score for the film.

There are several contrasting roles played by Kamal Hassan in the movie, in which he play A Brahmin, A Dwarf, A Scientist, A Fighter, A Black Man, A Tourist Guide, An Old Woman, A Robber, A Young Lady, An Emperor. Now that, the audio is about to release, only time will tell whether the efforts put in are paid off.