Dasavathaaram is one of the movie that i have truly enjoyed watching.Thanks to
Kamal Haasan !!After watching the movie , i couldn’t help but admire
and applaud the creative genius Kamal Haasan is.The movie talks about
physics of karma, chaos theory and cycles of life.Below are Kamal’s
words on the movie prior to its theatrical release.
"This theory is under the skin of the film and you will find little veins, tissues and muscles,every layer of it. One
is the chaos theory - we are all connected to everyone in the world.None
of our acts will be without effects. One act will collide with
another.It is like what you learnt in physics - where one object crashes
into another object and produces something else. This is basically our
sensibilities, insensibilities, crime, disregard for society and good
deeds.In religion, it is called good karma. It all comes around because
is some physics to it but we are not talking about it in bombastic terms
as people will come for entertainment and will understand it in the
process".
In simple terms,let me explain what "Chaos Theory" is:
Consider this example:
A man Mr.A is sleeping inside his car which is parked in the parkinglot of a big shop.Suddenly another man Mr.B wakes him up and asks for 25 cents.Mr.A runs his hand through his pockets (for say few secs less than a minute and gives him the coin).
Mr.B thanks him and walks towards the shop and suddenly notices a
driver, trying to back off his car is just about to hit another car(near
the entrance of the shop) which is stationary.
So he shouts"hey..hey ..stop the car" and saves the two cars from any
damage.Now,if Mr.A had said"Sorry I don't have any change" to Mr.B,then B would have probably gone to another person to ask for money and the
accident could have been unavoidable.A was in a way responsible to the
change in life patterns of B and the owners of the 2 cars.
This is chaos theory.
Next, Dasavathaaram also talks about the physics of "Karma".
What exactly is it?
Example:
You are watching a boxing match.Both are deadly fighters.You are thoroughly entertained while watching 10 rounds of gory violence. Then few days later you see two of your very close friends fighting over an issue.The fight goes to the next level where they start hitting each other with say cricket bats. This is violence too.But you can definitely not find it entertaining this time. Your instinct would be to stop the fight.This shows that you ARE bound to experience something equal and opposite (as in physics)to what you experience now , either immediately,or in the near future.What if you suddenly get to die before experiencing the effects of youraction? Well,That's where life cycle comes in and you will experience the effect in your next birth.
This is what Karma is about.
You have the free will to do what you want.But the effects are bound to follow you.Dasavathaaram deals with this brilliantly!
This
movie has made me think so much and now I strongly believe that whatever
is happening, there is a reason behind it – some call it God, some call
it butterfly effect and some call it karma.Finally, what you sow is
what you reap!
