Film Review: Dasavathaaram (Ten Avatars)

June 17, 2008 The much-hyped Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan's "Dasavathaaram" opened worldwide with approximately 1,000 prints and to packed houses in India, where fans anointed huge wooden cutouts of his with honey and milk. [...] the film turned out to be a silly spectacle in which Haasan plays 10 different characters, including a 90-plus-year-old granny. If he would have got the slightest nod from the producer or director, he might have also done Asin's dual female roles as well.

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