The write up should have been aptly titled the three mistakes of my life but then Chetan Bhagat was wise enough to use it before me, ignoring the outcome of the book I have decided not to buy , one more reason why I chose not to use the title was simply because of the fact that I made only two major mistakes and I couldn’t think of a third one.

The first being watching Dasavatharam, no don’t get me wrong, watching any kind of movie is not a mistake but watching a movie with preconceived notions was in fact a great mistake.

This write is in fact a result of a long brainstorming session that I had with a certain friend of mine who dismissed the movie as a dead octopus with freely suspended legs of whose two or three have been missing, I was still in the Pro-Kamal mood then, the man who comes up with certainly different every movie.

The second mistake being that I misunderstood the fact that Kamal had nothing different or new to offer so then he thought that donning ten roles would help him increase his stature as an actor who could differing from what critics had branded him; the actor of class for the class.

I think there has always been confusion in Kamal of whether he should be doing more of Devar –Magan, Anbe-sivam or should he do the commercial capers like Avvai Shanmugi (which were truly commercial although including the comical capacities of the above mentioned actors).

Dasavatharam stands in the middle of these two, actually going nowhere; it is like Kamal was taking a lot unto him; a lot more pressure to deliver something of a juggernaut in the box office which could cover all the movie-going audiences, which by my humble opinion now is a thing which he doesn’t need to do.

It’s not like Kamal cannot deliver a Sivaji (as in the movie, not the actor) or something similar but then he should have known that he is more liked in the roles which involves amounts of acting only Kamal could have done.

This write up also is a result of my previousover excitement, I agree completely and all you people have the right to give me the thrashing I deserve if you take the movies too seriously that is, I shouldn’t have written a Ben-Hurish review to the movie, which ultimately it didn’t deserve, my fault completely.

This also signifies a certain amount of introspection in the importance of my role as a common movie commentator which completely failed here and in the case of Mozhi (an earlier movie which I clapped with both my hands up ten feet in the air immediately after watching the movie but detested it a week later, and then I didn’t have the courage to accept the change in my mind so I didn’t voice it then)

Not that my movie reviews matter to people who read them, there are many masters in the field whose names I need not even supply, but I believe in being truthful to my conscience at the same time giving thought to the thoughts which do strike my brain occasionally, I could have called this the film critic’s apology but I know true to myself that I deserve nothing of that sort, I am after all a bystander.

P.S. the below review of the above mentioned movie would just show how ignorant I am in the scheme of things. Kindly laugh at it as much as you want.