After the classic opening scene of the showdown between shaivites and vaishnavites in the 12th century where the vaishnavite Kamal was tortured to death by the King for not believing in Lord Siva, it has been a complete let down.
seo-ul-hack posted Re:Dasavatharam - a let down on 2 mnths ago
The following excerpt from blogosphere with due credit to "Badri" who posted this -
(sic)
Understand Dasavathara
For those who are not understood the reason for 10
roles. Please go thro this..
I?m not sure how many of you thought on these lines,
but the below post makes a lot of sense about the
film. There are many discussions on the film happening
here ? about Chaos Theory, Butterfly Effect, God,
Religion etc. I?m watching the film again sometime.
One thing we had noticed is why people didnt get the
real subtext and reason for the various roles and
hence the title.
If you knew the real dasavatharams of Lord Vishnu and
their characters you can appreciate the script more.
Let me explain, starting with the best adapted role:
1. Krishna avatar - Vincent Poovaraghavan Lord krishna is actually a dalit, he is dark-skinned
[shyamalam]. He saved draupadi when she was being
violated and he was the actual diplomat in
mahabharatham. Lord krishna dies of an arrow striking
his lower leg. Now look at how vincent was
introduced.. he appears when asin is about to be
molested and he saves her like draupadi. Vincent is
the dalit diplomat, fights for land issue [soil issue
to be exact] and dies from the metal rod striking his
leg. Oh even five of vincent?s men are drugged at P.
Vasu?s.. sounds familiar???
2. Balarama avatar - Balarama naidu
This is an easy given. as the name suggests and the
role personifies you can easily get it.
3. Mathsya avatar - Ranagaraja nambi
nambi is thrown into water in an act of trying to save
lord from being thrown into sea, though vainly. what
more clue do you want?
4. Varaha avatar - Krishnaveni paatti
During the mukunda song, krishnaveni paatti does
varaha avatar in the shadow puppetry. The frame
freezes on it for a second. there is the clue.
Moreover, in varaha avatar lord actually hides earth
so as to protect life forms. Here too krishnaveni
hides the germs - life form inside the statue so as to
protect.
5. Vamana avatar - Kalifulla khan
remember in vamana avatar, lord vishnu takes the
vishvaroopa, that is the giant form! Hence the giant
kalifulla here symbolises vamana avatar.
6. Parasurama avatar - Christian Fletcher
Parasurama is actually on an angry killing spree and
killed 21 generations of the particular kshatriya
vamsa. Hence the real KILLER? Guess what thats what
our Fletcher is! He comes around with the gun [modern
upgrade for axe] and kills everyone around. I have to
check if he kills 21 people though.
. Narasimha avatar - Shingen Narahashi
first of all the name itself is a play on the words
singam [means lion in tamil] and narasimha [the avatar
being symbolised]. Lord Narasimha manifests himelf to
kill the bad guy and he also teaches prahaladha. In
the movie, he shows up to kill the killer fletcher!
and is also a teacher.. Lord Narasimha had to kill the
asura with bare hands and hence the martial arts
exponent here.. get it?
8. Rama avatar - Avatar Singh Lord Rama stands for the one man one woman maxim, kind
of symbolising true love.. Here Avatar portrays that
spirit by saying that he loves his woman more than
anything and wants to live for her.
9. Kalki avatar - Govindaraj Ramasamy
As you know, the hero in kaliyug can be none other
than the Kalki avatar!!!
10. Koorma avatar - Bush
This is the most loose adaptation I couldn?t clearly
comprehend. But if you look at the real koorma avatar,
the lord is the turtle/tortoise that helps in stirring
the ksheera sagara and bringing out the amruth. This
essentially creates war among the devas and asuras.
Similarly today Bush facilitates war between you know
whom? May be Kamal also indicates that this avatar is
a bit dumb like the tortoise?
(sic)
Understand Dasavathara
For those who are not understood the reason for 10
roles. Please go thro this..
I?m not sure how many of you thought on these lines,
but the below post makes a lot of sense about the
film. There are many discussions on the film happening
here ? about Chaos Theory, Butterfly Effect, God,
Religion etc. I?m watching the film again sometime.
One thing we had noticed is why people didnt get the
real subtext and reason for the various roles and
hence the title.
If you knew the real dasavatharams of Lord Vishnu and
their characters you can appreciate the script more.
Let me explain, starting with the best adapted role:
1. Krishna avatar - Vincent Poovaraghavan
Lord krishna is actually a dalit, he is dark-skinned
[shyamalam]. He saved draupadi when she was being
violated and he was the actual diplomat in
mahabharatham. Lord krishna dies of an arrow striking
his lower leg. Now look at how vincent was
introduced.. he appears when asin is about to be
molested and he saves her like draupadi. Vincent is
the dalit diplomat, fights for land issue [soil issue
to be exact] and dies from the metal rod striking his
leg. Oh even five of vincent?s men are drugged at P.
Vasu?s.. sounds familiar???
2. Balarama avatar - Balarama naidu
This is an easy given. as the name suggests and the
role personifies you can easily get it.
3. Mathsya avatar - Ranagaraja nambi
nambi is thrown into water in an act of trying to save
lord from being thrown into sea, though vainly. what
more clue do you want?
4. Varaha avatar - Krishnaveni paatti
During the mukunda song, krishnaveni paatti does
varaha avatar in the shadow puppetry. The frame
freezes on it for a second. there is the clue.
Moreover, in varaha avatar lord actually hides earth
so as to protect life forms. Here too krishnaveni
hides the germs - life form inside the statue so as to
protect.
5. Vamana avatar - Kalifulla khan
remember in vamana avatar, lord vishnu takes the
vishvaroopa, that is the giant form! Hence the giant
kalifulla here symbolises vamana avatar.
6. Parasurama avatar - Christian Fletcher
Parasurama is actually on an angry killing spree and
killed 21 generations of the particular kshatriya
vamsa. Hence the real KILLER? Guess what thats what
our Fletcher is! He comes around with the gun [modern
upgrade for axe] and kills everyone around. I have to
check if he kills 21 people though.
. Narasimha avatar - Shingen Narahashi
first of all the name itself is a play on the words
singam [means lion in tamil] and narasimha [the avatar
being symbolised]. Lord Narasimha manifests himelf to
kill the bad guy and he also teaches prahaladha. In
the movie, he shows up to kill the killer fletcher!
and is also a teacher.. Lord Narasimha had to kill the
asura with bare hands and hence the martial arts
exponent here.. get it?
8. Rama avatar - Avatar Singh
Lord Rama stands for the one man one woman maxim, kind
of symbolising true love.. Here Avatar portrays that
spirit by saying that he loves his woman more than
anything and wants to live for her.
9. Kalki avatar - Govindaraj Ramasamy
As you know, the hero in kaliyug can be none other
than the Kalki avatar!!!
10. Koorma avatar - Bush
This is the most loose adaptation I couldn?t clearly
comprehend. But if you look at the real koorma avatar,
the lord is the turtle/tortoise that helps in stirring
the ksheera sagara and bringing out the amruth. This
essentially creates war among the devas and asuras.
Similarly today Bush facilitates war between you know
whom? May be Kamal also indicates that this avatar is
a bit dumb like the tortoise?
Well, Krishna was born to Devaki, so isn't he actually royal blood..?
---. Krishna avatar - Vincent Poovaraghavan
Lord krishna is actually a dalit, he is dark-skinned
[shyamalam].