Dasavatharam vs MMKR

Last Saturday I was watching MMKR (I've already watched it plenty of times). The movie is all screenplay (no big story). Thanks to the complicated screenplay, most of the tamil audiences stamped this as yet another masala movie (I hate when someone says that it's just another masala movie). The movie is way ahead of it's time(for a 1989 release I believe). I have not seen a tightly scripted comedy movie in Tamil since then. The movie had no lagging moments at all. Avvai Shunmugi was a bigger hit that MMKR (with due credit to this movie, MMKR is a much better movie).Thats why I wonder whether Kamal needs a person like KSR to present his ideas to front benchers. KSR is a master of that, see Avvai Shunmugi to get what I mean. The movie was a personal milestone for the actor and did very well in BO.

Second thing I'm wondering about Dasa is screen time each character will occupy. Michael did not have much screen time in MMKR. Assuming it took 2:30hrs to exploit 3 characters potential to the fullest (specially that of Kameshwaran and Raju), it's a pretty serious task to present 10 characters in 3:00 hrs time. In their recent interviews Oscar Ravi and Kamal look extremely confident of the end product, lets hope for the best :)

You must be wondering what started this. I'm just wondering what it takes to be successful both as an Actor and at the BO like Aboorva Sagodarargal (ideal mix of both?) did. I was'nt bothered much about Virumandi, Anbe Sivam (both would have costed 10 crores a piece max( I heard Kamal took a pay cut for the latter. Most of Virumandi was shot at sets in Guindy) and would have recovered most of it). When the budget crosses 50 crs it's important that the movie does well commercially and to be frank I'm relying totally on KSR to do this (and more ofcourse :-)