Lots of reviews, good and bad about the movie which is intended to take Indian Cinema to greater heights. Well My review earlier was just to highlight the overall feel about the movie. Let me get into a little detail here..
Plot Synopsis: Things happen in life , and do they happen for a reason? if yes, What is it? is it Co-incidence or is it some thing beyond reasoning? Can everything be related to scientific proofs? or should it be confined to certain beliefs? What about Chaos? If there are certain things,that become certain only when they happen, how is that explained ? or Can it be explained? can we attempt at explaining something that we can probably never predict to perfection?
Dasavathaaram does not attempt to answer any of these, but gives us an oppurtunity to think about it.Its our choice though.. Of course the characters share their opinions as we share ours..
The Movie : There is evil trying to take over the world. The definition of evil is universal , i think.. No body would like to appreciate what happened to Hiroshima ? so why in the first place such evils are allowed to exist? Are they allowed or do they exist ? Govind as the protagonist, a believer in co-incidence theory and his travails to end an evil episode for mankind is how the movie progresses.He has Aandal for company and she completely believes in a power beyond human as a reason for any action. So they both have belief’s and may be they both mean the same. Now the question is about the evil? Did they stop it? or did it end? Who caused the evil? (Evil as an attitude, not as a thing 
)
Fletcher is the evil torch bearer. He is probably the so called Satan’s protagonist. He tries every bit to make sure Govind does not succeed in his efforts. Evil (as a thing) lands in India. Coz nobody tries to stop it ,including the President Bush himself,and turn of events, Govind is now viewed as a
terrorist and Balram Naidu,a not so intelligent CBI officer starts his interrogation. So Naidu being not every intelligent allows Govind’s as well as Fletcher’s mission to continue.
Now the so called evil is with krishnaveni paati(who has lost her son and still unable to accept that) and she is a believer in Lord Vishnu and so is aandal. She puts the evil inside God’s idol. So God now carries something which could be harmful to mankind (Basically like the Tortoise episode of Dasavathaaram- God Churns the Ocean and Shiva drinks the poison 
). The so called God now has the poison and Govind and Fletcher still in pursuit. Had Govind been a firm believer in God, he could have left it in there ,thinking god would take care of it; But the world has Fletcher’s too
In the meanwhile there is a group of people who are causing harm to the Environment by smuggling sand out. Enter Boovaragavan (shown as a Dalit), who is a Social reformer standing by the rights of the oppressed people in the society. Here is where,i have to mention Nambi, a person from 12th century,who was a Firm Believer in lord Vishnu and gave his life for his belief in Vishnu (He was given a choice and he chose to stick to his belief ) .He was chained to vishnu idol, and drowned in the ocean. He gave his life for his beliefs about a Power beyond Human.
Now Boovaragavan is a person who believes in equality and he has his rivals who dislike him. Fletcher on his pursuit kills many and some people are affected due to that. One being Narahasii (a japanese guru) and he too intially mistakes Govind as the wrong doer. And Kaifulla Khan, saves Govind from Fletcher when the latter is on his killing spree to get the evil.
Also there is Avtaar singh, a popular singer, fighting Cancer and is doing his final show.In the cat and dog chase, he is shot by Fletcher.Narahasi knows that Fletcher is the real killer and saves Govind from Fletcher,Fletcher is dead, but now, evil is un leashed and no one can save India. What happens next? Is it co incidence? is it chaos?
a. People cause harm to environment,and so there is earth quake
b. A way to end the whole chaos drama, Evil Dies and Goodness Prevails.. etc
Any of those, but the story does not end here, Boovaragavan, saves his rival’s children from drowning, gets stuck( chained) to the car and drowns in the ocean. Again he stuck to his belief about equality among mankind. He gave his life for his belief. History repeating, I guess, its God’s idol & Nambi then and Boovaragavan now.
Here is where krishnaveni paati identifies Boovaragavan as her son Aravumudan,despite negative feedback from her community. I guess it is upto us to see Boovaragavan as Shiva or Vishnu or just Human too , if i assume him as closer to Lord Shiva, just coz, he works for the so called “un touchables” and Shiva is supposed to work with the “kingaras” . So Krishnaveni paati calling him as her son is more meaningful depicting both shivam and vaishnavam are the same . The Make up factor is dealt really well with a subtle inner meaning here. We necessarily dont have to agree here, its just how otherwise it can be viewed.
And Avtaar is saved too, coz Fletcher shot him ..:-). Kaifulla Khan says he survived the calamity coz, god saved him. Co- incidence, Chaos, Super Power, -kamal leaves it to us. A well crafted script and for people who havent watched it yet, all the characters i have mentioned above (except Aandal) are played by Kamal…The movie probably lacks lots of other things (Especially the Screenplay) , but easily one of the best scripts of recent times. For sure the movie could have been much much better, it is a chaotic presentation of a brilliant script and may be thats what kamal’s intention were… Hmmm…
