Kamal Hassan’s Dasavatharam which is releasing today (June 13 ), is expected to hit the screens with around 1,000 prints in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. In Kerala it is releasing in 75 screens, while in Andhra in 250 screens.

In non-southern markets movie is beeing released with about 60 prints with sub-titles across the country- the largest release a regional film has witnessed.

Theatres in Chennai are screening around 45 shows a day in 21 theatres as opposed to Rajinikant’s Sivaji, which was released last year in 17 theatres.

Kamal Hassan is making a comeback after two years… so, anticipation for the film has skyrocketed so very high.

I am eager to watch the movie this weekend in Hyderabad.

Update (June 16th, 2008):
Watched the movie on Saturday. Its no where to my expectations except the first 15min of the movie. Rest of it goes on and on and on… and I felt as if I was sitting in the theater for half a day. I heard that the budget was 60 Crore Rupees and the graphics costed a lot of money. But after watching it, I guess even 6 Crores is waste paying for the graphics. Very cheap and silly graphics. No quality at all. Kamal, you should have gone for a better animation company. Coming to the makeup; Only 2 makeups were good enough. Rest of them were crappy and scary. By the way, the picture in this post is NOT showing the original characters played by Kamal. That one is some imaginative designer’s work misguiding people.

I recently saw the movie Forbidden Kingdom and I would say the old man’s makeup on Jackie Chan is
what our Industry makeup standards should be like.

Though I didn’t like the Movie “Dasavatharam”, I would say Kamal has guts to do this movie. I’m sure no other actor can even attempt to do a movie like this just because of too many links and roles.

If I have to remake the move, I would say, the whole of the movie should be like the first 15 min. May be all roles should be historic and powerful, all the roles NEED NOT be linked in one story, there could be multiple stories shown from the history and someone can narrate the stories in between…. well thats what I expected to be in the movie.

I would say, If you still didn’t watch this movie, you can wait for the DVD/CD to be released and watch it at home.

In the recent times, I have enjoyed nothing better than this one.

Anurag at India Inc wrote about Vodafone brand to dominate media in the coming days 3 days ago. At that point I thought this would be like Hutch advertising when it was initially launched all over India. they didn’t leave anything from boards or road divider, all hoardings in all cities to top TV commercial slots. Their advertisements where everywhere. At that point itself everyone felt it was over branding. Recalling that is the now re-branding campaign of Vodafone.

I Don’t know where to start but before I write about our recent Delhi-Nainital Trip, I wanted to write about this because this is more heart felt than anything else.

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The current Seven Wonders of the World are outdated. The search is on for defining the New 7 Wonders of the World. The initiative started in 2000. Experts considered the 77 sites with the highest number of votes and shortlisted 21 finalists on January 1, 2006.

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Indians might want to vote for the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. The world tour reaches Taj Mahal on December 5, 2006. There are some cool Taj Mahal N7W products at their Cafepress online shop to show your pride and spread the word.

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My fellow Hyderabadi’s and firefox fans, if you are in hyderabad this month end. Dont miss the firefox party.

Details follows:
Host: Veeven
Location: Hyderabad
Venue: Sanjeeva Reddy Nagar
Date: 2006-10-29 03:30pm GMT5
Duration: 2 hours

Note: the date is not confirmed but, register yourself and you will be informed when there it is decided.
Visit the party page.

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My fellow Indians,

This is Vamsi Gangavalli, a blogger just like you from India.
I know how you guys having your blogs on blogspot feel right now. I was shocked too guys. For a moment I thought “What the helll..?” but when I seriously read the news around, I came to know it was done by the government because of messages that posed religious hatred. Thats not OK right? The government could have banned the particular blogs. But as you know blogs on blogspot can be created by automated tools and posts can be written on several hundred blogs in seconds. So, banning one or few blogs cant solve the problem. If I was a blogspot user, I would have got to my roof top and whould have shouted at the government. I know how it feels. Lets not make it difficult for the government to do things to make sure India is a healthy country. Thats what I feel. We cant allow someone to write something stupid and just because of that more stupid things happen in India. You know what I mean?

Now, All you have to do is decide a domain name, buy it, probably you want to go with Dreamhost, right now which is the best hosting out there or Midphase, which I consider #2. After getting your hosting account activated, Upload WordPress, Install in one click!, and import your blogspot blog and get some sleep. Ya I make it sound too easy. But thats how it is, Easy!.

I’ve been blogging for a quite a while now and some blog consultation, customization and stuff and I am sure you can’t find a better platform than WordPress. If your problem is buying a domain name and hosting space. Go with WordPress.com

Ok, now let me know your thoughts if you have moved to a wordpress blog.

We are Mumbaikers and we live like brothers in times like this. So, do not dare to threaten us with your crackers. The spirit of Mumbai is very strong and cannot be harmed.

Found this on on Ajay’s Blog and its really good. check it out.