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| Facts
to consider before going to see Dasavatharam |
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| June
18, 2008 |
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Greetings from Malaysia.I've always been
an ardent fan of your website as I'm updating
myself constantly with things that are
revolving around Indian cinema, especially
Kollywood. Recently, Dr.Kamal's magnum
opus was released worldwide and I was
one of the lucky ones to watch the first
show in Malaysia. In fact, I watched Dasavatharam
twice on 13th, one in the morning and
once at night. Honestly, what I feel |
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about
this movie is, it's a highly technical movie and there's a
lot of researches and reading to be done before you can actually
appreciate or understand fully on what is going on. The movie
sets in slowly and once you get the grip of it, no doubt you'll
feel this is one of the greatest movies ever created - especially
in Indian cinema. Many are going around claiming that the
movie wasn't up to expectation, etc. I wonder how many people
have actually taken the time to do a little reading or research
before uttering a comment or review?
Thats why I'm sending you some interesting facts to consider
before going to see Dasavatharam.
Following facts were sourced out from Wikipedia and also other
relevant websites.
butterfly effect and CHAOS THEORY
It´s the theory that a butterfly's wings might create
tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the
path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the
occurrence of a tornado in a certain location. The flapping
wing represents a small change in the initial condition of
the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale
alterations of events. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings,
the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different.
Of course the butterfly cannot literally cause a tornado.
The kinetic energy in a tornado is enormously larger than
the energy in the turbulence of a butterfly. The kinetic energy
of a tornado is ultimately provided by the sun and the butterfly
can only influence certain details of weather events in a
chaotic manner.The entire story of Dasavatharam is based on
this theory and not about bio warfare, 12th century religious
clash or tsunami.
Kulothunga Chola II (12th century king)
Reigned from: 1133 - 1150 C.E.
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Kulothunga
II had a comparatively peaceful reign. His intolerance
or persecution of "Vaishnavas" is disputed.
As explained in the 'Kulothunga Cholan Ula', during
his time, major development work at the Natarajar Temple
at Thillai (Chidambaram) was carried out. Incidentally,
this major Shaiva shrine also houses the (separate)
temple of Lord Vishnu as Govindarajar, which is among
the 108 Divya Desams (sacred temples of Lord Vishnu).
Under Kulothunga II's orders, an attempt to persuade
the patrons of the Vishnu shrine was made for temporarily
removing the idol of Vishnu, ostensibly with the purpose
of repairing and renovation, which was initially opposed
by the Vaishnava community. Kulothunga-II probably got
the idol forcibly shifted mainly so that the repair
work is carried on smoothly and also with the intention
of not causing any damage to the Vishnu shrine. This
opposition of Vaishnavas to the (intended but not deliberate)
removal and closure of Lord Vishnu's temple was interpreted
in some quarters as persecution of Vaishnavites, because
in Hinduism closure of a temple is opposed and at least
a small lamp has to be lit in the temple, without which
that temple is not considered fit for worship. Otherwise,
Kulothunga-II is known to have been popular as evidenced
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2006th DECEMBER 2004 TSUNAMI FACTS
Released energy equivalent to 9,560 gigatons of TNT equivalent
(550 million times that of Hiroshima Atomic bomb), or about
370 years of energy used in the United States in 2005
Killing more than 225,000 people in eleven countries
Waves up to 30 meters (100 feet). Average overhead roads we
see on the road have 5 meter clearance.
Magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3 recorded on a seismograph.
It caused the entire planet to vibrate as much as 1 cm, shortened
the length of a day by 2.68 microseconds, caused the Earth
to minutely "wobble" on its axis by up to 2.5 cm
and triggered other earthquakes as far away as Alaska
In deep ocean water, tsunami waves form only a small hump,
barely noticeable and harmless, which generally travels at
a very high speed of 500 to 1,000 km/h ; in shallow water
near coastlines, a tsunami slows down to only tens of kilometres
an hour but in doing so forms large destructive waves.
Tsunami was noticed as far as Struisbaai in South Africa,
some 8,500 km (5,300 mi) away, where a 1.5 m high tide was
observed.
In the minutes preceding a tsunami strike, the sea often recedes
temporarily from the coast. Around the Indian Ocean, this
rare sight reportedly induced people, especially children,
to visit the coast to investigate and collect stranded fish
on as much as 2.5 km of exposed beach, with fatal results.
MAKE UP
It takes an average of 4 to 6 hours to don a make up for each
role and another 4 hours to remove - totalling at least 8
hours just for make up. Acting and shooting commences only
after that. We are talking about ten roles here.
SONGS
Songs placed in DASAVATHARAM are not there just for the sake
of a song sequence. It´s blended beautifully together
with the movie.
GRAPHICS AND CGI
If certain people think that the graphics were not very good,
no doubt, we must admit, Dasavatharam required a very high
end and special CGI. Do we have any idea how much CGI or special
effects cost in a Hollywood movies ?.Here are the facts sourced
from Hollywood itself.
The Rise of the Machines, for example, the budget for computer
work, including visual effects, creature effects, and special
effects, was $USD 28.2 million (120,887,722.10 rupees)
It does costs a lot to obtain a real life CGI.
DR.KAMAL´S MAKE UP
Facial make up for Dr.Kamal was done by Michael George Westmore
(Hollywood make up artist) who won an Academy Award for Makeup
in MASK and nominated three other times, for 2010 (1984),
The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986) and Star Trek: First Contact
(1996). He has also won nine Emmy Awards, and was nominated
for at least one Emmy every year from 1984 to 2005 (as well
as from 1976 to 1978). Westmore has also won or been nominated
for various other awards for makeup. If he cannot do the best
make up, I believe no one else in this world can. Another
way of saying this is that the technology is not there yet
to do such make up.
My heartiest congratulations to Dr.Kamal for coming with up
such a wonderful script and hard work that words cannot describe.
Nothing but tears flows when I think of the amount of work
and talent you have unleashed Sir. Well done. I'm definitely
going the movie 4 or 5 times more!
Kumaran
Malaysia
s_kumaran@live.com
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