18 April,2009 07:41 AM IST | | Tushar Joshi
Most South Indian films that come to a national audience in a Hindi dubbed version, either get relegated to video halls serving the appetite of adrenaline starved truck drivers who are missing out on bad-ass potboilers or reach a mainstream theatre audience of regional rowdies who want to see the action simbly one more time.
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Dashavtar sadly falls into both these categories, thereby missing the whole point of reaching out to a larger audience. At a time when no one is thronging theatres, it's no surprise that the film too will go unnoticed.u00a0
With a storyline that hangs by a thread, all that we get to see over two hours is Kamal in various disguises running from pillar to post.
There's nothing new in the plot or of the putting on various disguises act; the actor has done it in the past (Hindustani, Appu Raja, Chachi 420).
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Trying hard to pull off a Sivaji, Haasan falls flat on his face with this half-baked attempt to make a masterpiece.
Dashavtar
U; Action/ Drama
Dir: K S Ravikumar
Cast: Kamal Haasan, Asin, Mallika Sherawat
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Dashavtar At a cinema near you
Andheri Fame Big (10.30 am, 3.30, 10 pm), Fun (12.45 pm, 7, 10.35 pm)
Bandra Gaiety 11.30 am, 2.45, 6.15, 9.30 pm)
CSTu00a0New Excelsior (9 pm)
Churchgate Inox (1 pm, 7 pm), Eros (3, 6.15, 9.30 pm)
Matunga/sion Aurora (9.30 pm), Cinemax (12.15, 3.45, 7, 10.45 pm)
Marine lines Liberty (6 pm), Metro Big (4.15, 10 pm)
