Monday, August 21, 2006

Dasavatharam - The Hype Already?

Dasavatharam, the movie being shot with Kamal Hassan in the lead has already led to controversies and rumours. Although the movie is still to begin shooting, there have already been rumors about the movie being shelved, that's not true.

Then it was AR Rahman who was supposed to compose the music, now it is Himesh Reshamiya. Even the genre of the movie is being speculated. Some say it is a comedy while some say it will be a thriller.

AVM Productions was supposed to produce the movie. AVM productions has split. Now AVM Saravanan is on his own. Kamal is expected to do a film for the man left alone – AVM Balasubramaniam. And according to the sources it is reported that Kamal has shelved Dasavatharam to accommodate the sudden venture where he has planned to join the race in Diwali with Sivaji.

Finally, this movie is set to achieve a world record by having 10 roles for Kamal Hassan. The earlier record was by Sivaju who played 9 roles. Also Read World Record for Dasavatharam

It's become common these days to create hype and controversy over movies to generate publicity. Now we really don't know which ones are true and which ones false.

Here's something that is definitely not a rumour

Dasavatharam - An Introduction, Puranic Lore of Vishnu

Long long ago in this ancient land of ours, great and simple men lived in the forest spending their time in contemplation and devotion. They created various systems of science and philosophy, many of which are valued and accepted even today. Consider the concept of time. Today we think of time as a linear movement, with the birth of Christ as marking point. But time is in fact a cyclic process, repeating endlessly and infinitely. This may seem strange to us, but five hundred years ago many thought the earth was flat, and the roundness of the earth seemed equally strange! Anyway, in the ancient Indian system, time is conceived as a cycle in this cycles. Days and nights follow cyclically, seasons come and go cyclically, stars and planets move cyclically every sixty years, and many thousands of such cycles make a Yuga. There are four Yugas and these four Yugas come and go cyclically in kalpas, thousands of such kalpas follow in endless cycles into eternity. The first Yuga is Krita Yuga, the second Yuga is Treta Yuga, the third is Dvarpara Yuga and the fourth is Kaliyuga. We are now living in the first lag of Kaliyuga which began in 3102 BC.

The Lord is seated on his majestic throne in Vaikuntha. He lies reclining on a sergent bed Adi Sesha in the ocean of milk. He has descended into this world to protect the good and destroy evil as many as ten times as his avataras. His ten avataras are Matsya- the fish, Kurma-the tortoise, Varaha-the boar, Narasimha-the man-lion, Vamana-the dwarf, Parasurama-the axe wielder, Rama-the bow wielder, Balarama-the plough wielder, Krishna- the complete Avatara and Kalki who is yet to come.

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