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is a famous quote, ‘Perfection consists
not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing
ordinary things extraordinarily well’. Another
quote goes, ‘Don’t wait for extraordinary
opportunities, seize common occasions and make
them extraordinary. Weak men wait for opportunities,
strong men make them’.
Which idea came first, the idea of 10 avatars
or that of the man and the vial? Something like
the chicken or the egg question, something only
Kamal Haasan can answer. Look at it anyway, the
Dasavatharam idea did not happen in a hurry, just
like Rome was not built in a day. Initially there
must have been just a spark which could have been
that of man and the vial or that of 10 roles.
But the spark was not let to flicker away, it
was fanned till it was a flame.
All of us have these kinds of wild dreams and
thoughts, but we tend to dismiss them as just
wishful thoughts of an ambitious mind or shrink
away at the thought of the enormity of the task
of realizing the dream. It is those who believe
in their dreams and are prepared to dedicate themselves
to it that make history. Kamal Haasan, for all
his achievements and reputation must have had
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of detractors when he went with his dream. Why,
even now there are people who doubt the quality
of Dasavatharam, but let’s not talk about
that. But more than detractors Kamal chose to
look only at the people who believed in his belief
of his dream. He made the opportunity, seized
it and used it in the most extraordinary way possible
They
say ‘Opportunity knocks only once’.
But Kamal seems to think different, waiting for
the knock is waste of time, go out and find the
opportunity, the world is full of them. Today,
the realization of that dream and opportunity
completes 100 days in theaters. But 100 is just
a number, a number that many movies have touched
before and will do so after. But 10 is not just
another number, only one man has done it and we
doubt whether anyone else will.
Sathyam,
INox, Abhirami, Mayajaal and other leading theaters
proudly project the movie on its 100th day. Let’s
not look at any more numbers, that’s for
the business side to check out and they are mighty
happy. Meanwhile, let’s once again applaud
the man who made the opportunity of a lifetime
and the team that stood with him. Incidentally,
another opportunity seems to have been discovered
and it is named Marmayogi.
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