Kamal Haasan on 13 years of Dashavtar: We wanted to make a masterpiece within a shoestring budget

Kamal Haasan starrer sci-fi action thriller Dashavtar completed 13 years on Monday. Helmed by KS Ravikumar, Dashavtar went on to become the highest-grossing south Indian film upon its release. It also surpassed the collections of Sivaji: The Boss until Enthiran took the lead in 2010. Kamal portrayed 10 distinct roles in Dashavtar with Asin playing the female lead. Walking down the memory lane, the veteran actor shared some of his most unforgettable moments of making his magnum opus film.

“Most unforgettable was the first sequence wherein I had come up with a lot of the designs as the others didn’t know how to visualise or present it but I already had lessons out of experience from Maruthanayagam and taking notes from on not overbuilding anything unrealistically but keep it believable. For example, the two guards standing on either side of the elephant was designed by me. It was novel for us but done in history wherein the bodyguards would protect the king while on an elephant. It is basically two footboards on either side and the elephant actually felt very comfortable with the footboards pressing into it,” shared the 66-year-old actor-filmmaker.

 

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He further added, “We wanted to make a masterpiece and we didn’t look at money or fame, just our contribution to the art of cinema. We had various stunt directors supporting us which can be seen in various styles portrayed through the film as Fletcher’s stunts had to be different from the Samurai and that from the first and all this within a shoestring budget.”

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