Vishwaroopam- my view and review

Vishwaroopam- where the North do nat necessarily meet the South! Yesterday I saw the movie Vishwaroopam in a movieplex in Hyderabad. The price I paid was Rs 30 towards the ticket and Rs 10 towards the parking charges. The movie was worth the viewing for the money I spent on the movie. But what about the people who spent Rs 100 and above?. First let us reflect on the reviews. The North Indian and Bollywood critics written the movie off. It got the ratings of 2 and odd out of 5. In the southern circuit it has got decent reviews/ratings of 3 and odd out of 5. One thing that I could notice is that the bollywood film circuit did not grow on Southern heroes such as Kamalahassan, Rajanikant like the southern circuit. During my days of youth and partly later I enjoyed watching Kamal for his versatility and experimentation with roles, that too with so much of ease. There are many admirers for him in the south. Having said that Kama needs to be faulted for his too much of experimentation. Vishwaroopam was made on a lavish scale and with huge budget and reasonably good technical values. For the story he might have depended on some original incidents, write-ups and related things. So far so good. Though Kamal has not been very well educated, he developed good understanding of modern science without loosing the sight of basic and simple science. Since the story unfolded in different situations & regions and at different timelines and as the pace is racy, we may not be able to identify the loopholes in the story very easily. But screenplay or the story can be ripped apart quite easily. At the end of the story I was quite clueless about the pigeon/ dove part. What exactly happened to stop the menace? There are many such loose ends in the story like that. Another example is that how he could come back to India from Afghanistan and moved to USA without the knowledge of FBI and other agencies? The final bomb in the climax is too silly to be dreaded with inverted test tubes and some sort of wires. Using the Farady grid (that too with electric oven) was too simplistic. He did the same for Dasavatharam- using the common/sea salt to curb the virus menace!. It may be his way of telling that simple solutions exist for complicated subjects/ problems. No doubt he has taken dramatic/ story telling/situation liberty to tell the story in the process hurting some people's sentiments. Kamal also should accept that people have their liberty to use the legal angle. He can no longer afford to have grudge against any of them. If he is financially hurt, the other communities might have sentimentally hurt. One can not wish away the scope of being hurt by both sides. While it is true that he made his money based on his his talent, histrionics- he can not deny that common people of all hues and cries paid for him through visits to the theater or watching on TV/DVD etc. It was their money which is legally in his kitty. In this movie the actor in Kamal Hassan is subdued and the director in could be seen more. One more saving grace this is not a song and dance drama. He raised so many questions than he answered. What is the final fate of Afghans that he left behind? But among the Indian movies shot in Afghanistan, that I have seen- Khuda Gawa, Kabul Express and this- this movie is definitely better- if not the best. The movie is worth seeing for Kamal fans like me! The critic in me is quite uneasy. My advice to kamal hassan would be to reduce the make-up and avoid multiple roles in any movie and rather focus on the drama, emotions and expressions. He may try the make up part only occasionally. This is one of the movies where the North may not necessarily meet the South!