Hollywood star Jackie Chan arrived in Chennai on Thursday evening to for the music release of Kamal Hassan’s magnum opus, Dasavatharam. The audio launch of Dasavatharam is touted to be one of the biggest events that Indian cinema has seen till date.

The film has a very simple screenplay sans the usual element of commercial films such as duets and action. All actors have dubbed in their voices.

The characters that Kamal play in the film are - an American, a Chinese man, a CBI officer from Andhra Pradesh, an old lady, a leader from Afghanistan, a Scheduled Tribes’ leader, George Bush, a Punjabi and one character, who looks like Kamal normally does.

Chief Minister M Karunanidhi asked Kamal: “Are all those people really you?” Sources said the actor plays 10 different characters and the story is not about one person in different guises.
Oscar Ravichandran the producer of the film had shown the trailer of the film to the Chief Minister M Karunanidhi who is said to have been very impressed with Kamal Haasan’s efforts and congratulated him with a hug and a kiss.

It is learnt that the story begins with an episode set in the 12th century, and then looks at coincidences. In this, Kamal plays Nambi, a staunch Vaishnavite priest.
Lyricist Vaali’s lines - ‘Kallai mattum paarthal kadavul theriyadu, kadavul mattum paarthal kalladi theriyadu…” powerfully describe the character’s devotion in playback singer Hariharan’s voice.

Jackie Chan, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, Amitabh Bachchan, Malayalam megastar Mammootty, Ilayathalapathy Vijay, will be the chief guests at a function to be held at the Nehru Indoor Stadium. It will later be telecast on Kalaignar TV.

Directed by KS Ravikumar, Produced by Oscar Ravichandran, Story by Kamal Haasan, Dialogue by Crazy Mohan and Starring Asin, Mallika Sherawat, Jayaprada, Napolean, Santhana Bharathi, M.S. Baskar, Nagesh, and K.R. Vijaya.