However his boss and senior scientist, Dr. After understanding the original virus's lethal potential the hard way, Govind refuses to hand over the main single vial containing the virus due to fear of misuse. Govind, saddened by the event, quarantines the lab room and fills it with a concentrated salt solution. Govind and his team try to save him but are too late, and they watch helplessly as he dies. The monkey takes the vial, thinking it to be the usual chocolate Govind would feed him, and swallows the sample of the virus. While the team members are watching a news programme, Govindarajan aka Govind notices the footage of his lab monkey breaking out of his cage and retrieving a sample of the test virus. Scene shifts to 20 December 2004, where a nanobiotechnology lab in the United States designs a vector-virus intended as a bio-weapon following the September 11 attacks to defend further terrorist attacks on US soil. Nambi's wife Kodhai Radha is shocked by this and she kills herself in front of the king. Rangarajan Nambi, a Vaishnavite, protects it and offends the king, who orders Rangarajan to be executed by being pierced, stoned, submerged into the sea with the idol. He begins by reciting events from the 12th century in Chidambaram, when King Kulothunga Chola II, a Saivite, persecutes Vaishnavites and intends to destroy an idol of Govindaraja. The film was also released in Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali and Bhojpuri languages.īiotechnologist Govindarajan Ramaswamy speaks at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and explains about chaos theory and the butterfly effect. The film grossed over ₹200 crores worldwide and become the highest grossing South Indian film upon release, thereby beating the collections of Sivaji: The Boss, until surpassed by Enthiran in 2010. Several other people also get involved in the process and all their stories connect after the striking of 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, thus bringing philosophical views into the picture.Īfter delays in post-production, the film was released on 13 June 2008 in around 1300 prints worldwide, with praise directed at Haasan's performance, the cinematography, and the editing, while criticism was directed at the prosthetics, writing and the addition of unnecessary characters portrayed by Haasan. The plot of the film revolves around bringing together the lives of several individuals beginning with the 12th century and ending with the 21st century the main person being a research scientist who develops a bio-weapon and makes sure that it is not acquired by a terrorist nation. The soundtrack to the film was composed by Himesh Reshammiya and the background score was by Devi Sri Prasad. Primary filming locations included the United States and across Tamil Nadu in India. The film, which had been under production for nearly three years, was produced and primarily distributed by V. Asin appears in two roles and Mallika Sherawat plays a subsidiary role.
It stars Kamal Haasan, who also wrote the screenplay and story of the film, in ten distinct roles. Go for the movie mainly for KamalHaasan who has taken really painful efforts and excelled in all ten lovable characters and i promise the movie will hold you up providing a 3 hour non stop entertainment in terms of action,special effects,comedy and a thrilling adventure no matter any genre lover you are.Dasavathaaram is a 2008 Tamil-language science fiction action film directed by K. Hello movie goers, don't even think to miss this movie. The plot may appear simple but the way it is portrayed in a thrilling way throughout without any flaws, introducing each role at appropriate time with most of them strongly connected to the main story(though i feel one or two characters not very needed to the film,we can give it up as they don't deviate you from the plot)is really superb. The movie is a racy thriller which has very right mixture of action and comedy and is splendid because of kamal's acting, makeups(one or two makeups are not very pleasing though),crazy's sensible and witty dialogues,special effects and all.I want to remind people that like any other film Dasavatharam is also a 'film' which is intend to satisfy all type of movie lovers. Wow awesome! Kamal excels donning ten roles with gr8 efforts differentiating each one through a different slang and body language. This movie holds you up throughout the film. I have read many user comments here and i don't know why they were disappointed by the film.