Dasavatharam release to be postponed until Indian Premier League’s debut tournament is over

CHENNAI: The release of Kamal Haasan’s magnum opus Dasavatharam is likely to be postponed, once again.

This time, the movie has not run into troubled waters as earlier, but, it is said, will be released only in June, after the Indian Premier League’s debut tournament is over.

The Indian Premier League, created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, will begin its first tournament on April 18, which will go on till June 1.

Sources said the Dasavatharam team is apprehensive of how the cricket series will affect the response to the movie and so, has decided to release the movie only after the IPL Twenty20 series is over.

Directed by K S Ravikumar and produced by Oscar Ravichandran, Dasavatharam has Kamal Haasan playing 10 roles, including those of an African tribal, an aged woman, George W Bush and of a Sardar, for the first time.

Kamal Haasan had earlier described the movie as his ‘biggest, hardest and longest project’ so far. The Kamal Haasan-Asin starrer is also Himesh Reshamiyya’s first Tamil movie as a music director, besides being Mallika Sherawat’s first Tamil movie.

Meanwhile, Kamal Haasan called on Chief Minister M Karunanidhi at his Gopalapuram residence on Tuesday morning to invite him for the audio release of Dasavatharam, which will be held at the Nehru Stadium on April 25.

Karunanidhi has confirmed his participation. Jackie Chan is also said to be attending the event. Other popular actors, including Rajinikanth, Amitabh Bachchan, Mamootty, Chiranjeevi, Vishnuvardhan and Mithun Chakraborty, are expected to attend the audio release.