The Greatest Return in all of Entertainment?

Some of these Hindu Gods can surprise us with fairly weird and psychedelic stories of their lives. It is an underrated trait. Mythology is an underused art form. India is missing out on a truckload of very interesting subplots to engine their dying script industry.It is not surprising though, that the best use of Mythology in Indian Cinema is often found in the works of one hell of an atheist - Kamal Haasan. While many of his references to the holy have been interpreted as immature digs, most are works of ingenious analogies to the stories that we've grown up praying to.

The Guardian deity of the plateau down south found a face and a voice to tell his story in Virumandi. Ram lost his wife and went on a quest to destroy the world in Hey Ram. Murugan takes an avatar too with both his wives in Kaadala  Kaadala. In Guna, a Siva, dark and not blue skinned is dancing in all his vigour waiting for his Abirami . Siva resurfaces in one of his more somber moods in well, Anbe - Sivam. To kind of sum it up, Dasavatharam happened. Coming to look at it, Dasavatharam is more of a statement than a word. It is a picture of the omnipotent all pervading strength and flourish that the almighty inspires in his believers. To believers of acting, the attempt from Kamal was to the same effect.

The question would have come up in someone's mind, and I am guessing it would have been KS Ravikumar, "What is grander than Dasavatharam?" While Dasavatharam is like a collectors edition of everything that Lord Vishnu could transform himself into to save the world, something like a panoramic photograph, this word, Vishwaroopam is one-single shot of all the consuming phenomena that Vishnu is made out to be in mythology. The idea is therefore is to expect nothing short of Kamal Haasan's best possible output in all of his cinema career. The very thought is intellectually orgasmic. Chennai, India and I hear a town in the French Riviera is all geared up for what surely is the greatest return in ALL of entertainment!