Dasa Impacts - Just won't go away..

There's some frantic activity on the number of posts/reading on Dasa for the last couple of weeks. Even I managed to get about 160+ hits in my blog in the last 2 days, thanks largely to auto search & post tamil websites.

While browsing through other blogs/websites I came across several interesting notes which I have compiled in to one logical piece. These are some of the interesting(?!) observations on Kamal's names in the movie.

Most of the names, for instance, were based on the actual Dasavatars..Govind Ramaswamy (has a monkey called Hanu - he should be Rama avatharam), 'Balram' Naidu, 'Krishna'veni, Rangarajan (matsya or may even be Koorma since he drowned in sea), 'Avtar' Singh, Boo'varaghan', Kalif Ullah was the opposite of Vamana Avatharam (Tall vs Short) and the coolest name of the lot..Shinghen Narahasi, the Japenese guy. The word Fletcher means ‘arrows’ or the ‘maker of arrows’. Though Parasurama wielded an axe, Fletcher is modern Parasurama because he is angry and kills everyone in sight.

I also found several posts on Chaos Theory and Butterfly effect thats incorporated in the movie. These are not new to cinema, they are very well known and popular entities that was used in several movies and stories in the past. Last year, I tried my own version based on these theories in one of my short story விதிமுறைகள். The story was a huge inspiration from movies like 'Crash' and 'Babel'.

One thing is for sure, either Kamal & Co did all the research to come up with all subtle details in this movie or it could just be that fans are going overboard to find logic and relevance on just about everything from the movie.

Final note on Dasa: New year's day is not coming anytime soon, but I have taken a personal mid-year vow to not read/write on Dasa for the next several weeks at least. Personally it's been an "overdosavatharam".