Dasavatharam and the average cinema lover......

better late than never. Taking on Dasavatharam's trailer and music or well without even taking on it the following things are for sure,

1) Kamal periya aalu thaan ba...
2) A film is only as good as it is accepted by people from all centers....

3) The third and the most elaborate of my non taking of Dasavatharam music is that , Himesh Reshamiyya by any sort of standard or explanation is a misfit here. A misfit that is a culminate of a crate of misunderstandings, most commonly nomenclatured as MARKETING DEMANDS. Undeniable is the fact that they could have easily settled for a more renowned South Indian music director. Even citing the reason of being a multilingual doesn't stand a valid reason for Reshamiyya on board. As still 3 out of the 4 languages it is being made are only south Indian languages . And as again there are eminent music directors who have established unabashed fan following for themselves, mostly through movies that are just dubbed inter languages. And quite a handful of them have perched on the bollywood arena too. So if they thought Himesh Reshamiyya could serve a facilitator for the multilingual tag of the movie they were wrong. Or just had they thought that he could give the movie an address atleast in the bollywood arena, again they are wrong. Or i shudder had they ever thought Reshammiya's music could bring an universal appeal as supplementing to kamal's addiction for universal recognition. Simple is that nothing but a belligerent producer or actor or director whoever it is, explains of having him as the music director. And truth is that he can't even manage to bring the real crowd in even for a Hindi movie.Was the content of the movie so unacceptable for some music directors to have not accepted the film. In that case viewers beware.

And what is this attitude of scoring only the songs and not the background score. As known a trend started by A.R.Rehman, such unhealthy it is. An escapist tendency i would say. Now look at this , once a movie is planned the foremost thing is to make the story sink into three persons who are the only ones referred by the word DIRECTOR in the glossary of cinema. They are the movie's Director, Music Director and Art Director. Here is a situation where we get him scoring all the songs and enter devisri prasad for background scoring. And none of them i bet would have got a hearing from the director or the scriptwriter. They would have only dealt this on a situation to situation basis. At least that is what i feel. In that case it would only end up being a remorse for the viewers. when they can't even get as simple a full time music director for a film how silly it is of the people concerned with the movie and those people concerned with the people concerned with the movie to hail this to be a classic sort. Well as said in point 2 Dasavatharam will be judged aptly on day one of its release to public. And in case people offer to reject it there would be a malicious campaign propagating the theory of viewers being fools and failing to connect with the movie. Mumbai Express , remember? A trash that was. Still some people who claim to eat, sleep, breathe good cinema blame the viewers as to not having understood a classic. Bullshit. Well it's meandering, as though i am a kamal basher. but even a iota of non inclusiveness of the average viewer by so called methais should be unabashedly bashed. I am off late stuck with this phrase of khaled hosseini and borrow the same for this situation too. If in general everything about Dasavatharam is a turmoil of uncertainty, small things like himesh reshammiya could make it a certainty of turmoil.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Having abandoned at least a dozen books midway or even before take off makes me ruminate often as, what had happened to my fetish for reading. But A Thousand Splendid Suns
is really arresting.