THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH! Abzee’s review of AVATAR

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Avatar
Dir- James Cameron
Cast- Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi and Sigourney Weaver.
Rating- **** ½

A film runs at 24 frames per second. That makes it 1,440 frames per minute, and 86,400 frames per hour. James Cameron’s Avatar is 2 hours and 40 minutes long, of which nearly 60% is computer generated…and if reports are to be believed, Cameron and his team of visual effects technicians spent anywhere between 15 minutes to an hour on every frame that has gone under the digital knife. The math of how many man-hours must have gone into creating the spectacular effects for this film is as mind-boggling as the budget of this venture, especially when converted to any currency other than the dollar. Tell you what though, I don’t remember when I last saw a film where every man-hour put in and every last dime spent was manifest and, more importantly, justified by that which transpired on screen. Quite simply put, James Cameron’s follow-up to his global money-spinning juggernaut Titanic is well worth its 12 year long wait and is indeed The Greatest Show on Earth!

Avatar takes place in the year 2154. Cameron wisely leaves the details sketchy about the status quo of planet Earth. We are introduced instead to former US Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), as he wakes up from his cryogenic slumber in a space shuttle that has carried him 4.3 light years away from Earth to Pandora, an inhabited moon of Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri star system. A multinational company called RDA has set up its mining base on Pandora to obtain a rare mineral, quite literally called, ‘unobtainium’! Some might call this simplistic, I call it simple. Cameron has never been a ‘simplistic’ filmmaker, but he’s quite decidedly been a ‘simple’ one. He’s always relied on telling simple stories, stories that facilitate his larger aim, which has always been to push the cinematic envelope as forward as possible.

Coming back to the story (and it is a bare-bones story, make no mistake), Jake has been brought to Pandora as a substitute for his twin brother in the Avatar program. The Avatar program, engineered and run by Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), is an attempt to infiltrate the indigenous tribe of Pandora, the Na’vi, by creating a hybrid Na’vi avatar that can be mentally controlled in a somnific state by the human subject that the avatar shares its genetic material with. Since Jake, despite being a paraplegic, matches the same genetic setup as that of his deceased twin brother, his DNA is compatible with his brother’s avatar.

Jake Sully and his avatar

It is not just the title that derives from the Hindu text. The very premise of Jake’s omnipresence (his human form sleeps while his avatar wakes and vice-versa) and the blurring of the lines between the real world and the imagined allude to the mythology of Indra and the living world being his dream! Moreover, the title is an apt one…for an ‘Avatar’, as the Gita says, is merely a physical manifestation of the soul. The soul keeps reincarnating, until it finally finds its true ‘self’ (the Brahman-aatma) and becomes the twice-born. Jake’s physical handicap as a human being doesn’t prohibit his Na’vi avatar from running, jumping and pulling off other physical acts that he cannot as a human. But perhaps he always could, for it is his soul which governs both his human and Na’vi avatar.

Jake’s avatar is air-dropped into the heart of the Pandora-n rain-forest, where he meets the young Na’vi princess Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña). Neytiri finds Jake “restless, like a child!” but senses his brave heart and introduces him to her tribe elders who welcome Jake into their clan and instruct Neytiri to teach him the Omaticaya ways of the Na’vi. This centerpiece of Avatar is where James Cameron vows you completely.

The Pandora that Cameron conceives and creates with his technicians is perhaps better than any imagined Eden! Bathed in hues of blue and tones of technicolour I never knew even existed, Pandora is a divine blend of nature and life, of flora and fauna in perfect harmony…a world untouched, pristine and altogether serene. Life-sized mimosas (touch-me-nots) that fall back unto themselves, iridescent tentacled seeds wafting across the space and shimmering blades of grass that light up like a disco-floor when you step on them…these magical vegetations seem unbelievably lifelike. One can almost breathe in the air of Pandora; I felt a soft cooling breeze, like the oxygen you smell when raindrops first fall in a monsoon season, or the fragrance of wet mud!

Riding a Pa'li

And then the wildlife! The Pa’li, horses of Pandora. With six legs and a bony toblerone-like mane, the Pa’li are equally majestic as their Earthly counterparts, but faster. The Angtsik, a strange fluorescent mix of rhinoceros and elephant, are herbivorous beasts who when cornered attack ferociously with what looks like a horizontal wooden log for a horn! There is a variation of the Panther as well with flaring cartilaginous plates, but nothing matches the sheer brilliance in the conceptualization of the Ikran. Ikrans are flying-horses, resembling giant-sized phoenixes. The taming of an Ikran is an important ritual passage in the life of a Na’vi. An Ikran bonds with only one Na’vi in his/her entire lifetime. Just like an untamed horse that chooses its master (generally s/he who is able to accept the gauntlet thrown by the wild horse) an Ikran chooses its Na’vi by attacking him/her. The Na’vi must try and avoid being killed, and in the process ‘connect’ (quite literally) with the Ikran…who gives up once dominated and serves its rider loyally for ever.

Jake’s avatar successfully learns the Na’vi customs, accomplishes the rites of passage and becomes one of the Na’vi. What he hadn’t bargained for is falling in love with Neytiri. The Jake and Neytiri love-story is a sensuous yet pure one. While it doesn’t have the passion and pathos of the Jack and Rose love-story of Cameron’s Titanic, the Jake and Neytiri romance is one of unspoken endearment and virginal simplicity (James Horner’s lilting and rousing theme to their romance elevating it to an even different realm!). The Titanic pair packed in an emotional sucker-punch precisely because they suffered at the hands of fate. The lovers at the center of Avatar are more ‘significant’ in comparison, if less heartbreaking, as they aren’t passive footnotes in a historical disaster. Jake’s feelings for Neytiri persuade him to go against his primary mission- that of infiltrating the Na’vi and convincing them to abandon Kelutrel, the hometree of the Na’vi (yet another Indian mythological allusion to the Kalpavriksha- the tree of life), and relocate. The Kelutrel sits above a huge deposit of unobtainium, and if Jake and Grace are unable to find a diplomatic solution, then RDA administrator Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi) and his armed-outfit chief Col. Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) wouldn’t hesitate resorting to armed hostility to invade and capture the site. Jake switches sides (he earlier mentions how everything is backward, how the dream world seems real and the real a dream!) and leads the Na’vi in a climactic battle against the humans- the people from the sky!

And what a climactic battle it is! Cameron proves yet again that nobody can match him in his absolute control over orchestrating elaborate action set-pieces. The chase in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the woman-in-vest-seeking-vengeance climax of Aliens…Cameron has established his credentials before, but the authoritative stamp that he embosses on the climax of Avatar is surely a debate-ending seal. Michelle Rodriguez continues the tradition of Cameron’s woman-in-vest-seeking-vengeance, but it is ultimately Cameron, and filmmaking, that is the true hero.

The Human Intrusion

Cinema has always been burdened and saddled with all sorts of expectations and duties to meet and function. Movies and cinema are different, often confused and conflated. Filmmaking has many functions yes, but its primary one is to stay true to itself. A film can tell a story, but it need not necessarily always do so. One would be erring if one mistakes the lack of a story in a film as a lack of content. Cinema is not fiction or literature. It is an art form that embraces all other art forms- be it music, painting, theatre -and combines it together (not necessarily all of them) to create a new art form…the most derivative, yet highest of art form. Who’s to say what’s right and what’s wrong in any art? What matters is whether it’s interesting or not? Avatar, as I said before, has a very bare minimum story. The love-angle is reminiscent of The New World and The Last Of The Mohicans, and its central hero a harkening back to Dances With Wolves. Its referencing of the modern-day situations in Iraq and Afghanistan are rather clumsy and in-your-face. But the function of a film like Avatar isn’t in telling a story. The story is a device to enable a journey of imagination and cinematic possibilities. A basic story, one of clichés and familiar templates, is always advisable in such a non-script endeavour. It is consequently wise, as I mentioned earlier, that Cameron doesn’t tell you the situation on Earth. That is up to the imagination of the audience. At the rate at which we are going, in what shape must the Earth be in 2154 is an open-beginning to the film (you’ve heard of open-endings, ever seen an open-beginnning!). Cameron’s political subtext should just as well be taken as a red-herring. It’s not whether Cameron’s right or wrong…it’s whether what he does is interesting or not? What Cameron and his team do in Avatar is beyond just interesting.

The Na’vi! Cameron brings to the screen, what is perhaps the most lifelike and expressive alien-beings ever to grace the movies. These long and sinewy creatures, 10-12 feet tall, seem every bit authentic (if one could say so of alien-life). Slender, with long tails, Cameron and his technicians make the best use of MoCap (motion capture technology) to render these electric-blue beings as real as possible. Zoe Saldaña, who plays Neytiri, had to wear motion-sensors on her and act in an empty sound stage, reacting to nothing but Cameron’s explaining of his mental conception. 3D Fusion cameras allowed performance-capture which maintained and enhanced the facial expressions of the actors even after computer generated work on it. Zoe’s Neytiri, as with the Na’vi avatars of all other actors, is not a triumph of prosthetics. They are CGI rendered yes, but their expressions are genuine, real and all human. Little wonder then that by the end of the film, it is the humans who are referred to as ‘aliens’…and almost by design, it is the humans that are cardboard cutouts in this film, while the Na’vi have shades.

Slight spoiler alert!
But perhaps the saddest shade the Na’vi adopt is in the bittersweet ending when they resort to violence to defend themselves against the human invasion. The Na’vi are a peace-loving species, symbiotic with the nature that surrounds them. They do not kill, and even when they prey, they acknowledge the role of the hunted and thank and bless it. Jake finds his true-self as a Na’vi (twice-born), and leads the Na’vi into combat. I couldn’t help feeling a loss of innocence, of a ‘human’ ugliness that had made its way into and corrupted the Na’vi way of living. Cameron doesn’t shy from showing Jake’s acceptance of his role as their leader as a somewhat selfish motive. The Na’vi don’t seek him, it is he who ‘adopts’ them. Jake’s final desire to banish other humanity and continue living as the ‘ruler’ among the Na’vi destabilizes Jake’s trajectory until then which is very much in keeping with Joseph Campbell’s postulation in his seminal The Hero With A Thousand Faces that “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.” Jake chooses not to return to his planet, and continues to remain as a leader on Pandora. His final act reminded me of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness. Even if Cameron didn’t intend it, I almost sensed Jake’s Na’vi avatar turning into a Kurtz!
Spoiler over!

Avatar and Na'vi

The Na’vi have a saying, “I see you”, which goes beyond the literal and hints at ‘seeing’ the person within for what s/he is (perhaps why the Na’vi princess is called Neytiri, which phonetically sounds similar to ‘netri’ in Hindi meaning ‘eyes’). The film ends with Jake’s avatar opening his eyes and looking straight back at the audience. Cameron, who’s championed the cause for environment earlier in his The Abyss, wants us to ‘see’…beyond the literal.

What James Cameron’s achieved in Avatar is a knocking down of filmic boundaries. Never has a case for 3D been made so effectively. Avatar provides the most immersive experience, making you dodge a gun or an arrow or a simple blade of grass on more than one occasion. The sky is literally the limit for filmmaking now. We may not see another Avatar anytime soon, until the production costs come down at least. But JC has led the way yet again, and shown the path. If this effort doesn’t deserve an Oscar, I don’t know what does. (I say this as someone who until Avatar believed that Cameron’s ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow should win the Oscar for The Hurt Locker.)

In retrospect, I have only one gripe with the film. I wanted it to be longer! At 160 minutes, the acts were overlapping onto each other. I missed the vast scope of Titanic. I wanted to spend more time learning about the Na’vi culture. I wanted to discover the other warrior clans. In short, I want to see the nearly 4 hour long Director’s Cut! And oh…make it 3D please!

Rating – **** ½

- Abhishek Bandekar

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Som 19 December 2009
05:54:36 am

Stunning piece here Abzee.. One of the best I have read on Avatar.

ăbzee 19 December 2009
08:49:59 am

Thanks Som. I urge you to go catch this ’spectacular’ event at the earliest. Would love to read your thoughts.

Akshay 19 December 2009
09:38:25 am

Abzee, I agree with Som here. What a review dude !! The best I’ve read about this movie (and yes I’ve read a couple)

Loved your own thoughts mixed with the storyline !!

Aarkayne 19 December 2009
11:12:01 am

Decidedly an awesome review for a path breaking movie.

But I will say what I said on Sandy’s review on her blog using her words. I dont want to trivialise Cameron’s achievements and would certainly urge and know everyone is going to see it at least once. But a simple response to a rather simple story then.

Formidable yet forgettable. Its like the tallest building man ever built that we all want to visit once but then know that there will be another one built soon enough. Certainly not the Taj Mahal that you want to keep visiting over and over again marvelling at the love and poetry of a man for his woman!

Angels and Belds 19 December 2009
10:19:03 pm

Bravo! I thought about many ways to describe this abz – but I just ended up with that one word. I have read lot of good reviews but this is easily among the top 3 reviews of any movie of all times. Bravo! Take a bow..

Aarkayne – beauty is in the eyes of the beholder – so i will respectfully disagree with your analogy. When you go to the Taj – you just see the Taj. When you go to the tallest building in the world – u can see the tallest building from outside and see the world around from inside. So ya Taj may be more romantic – but the tallest building is much more fascinating.

btw – does anyone know why Taj is a wonder of the world. Not because of its beauty – any guesses?

Angels and Belds 19 December 2009
10:22:30 pm

>>A film can tell a story, but it need not necessarily always do so. One would be erring if one mistakes the lack of a story in a film as a lack of content. Cinema is not fiction or literature. It is an art form that embraces all other art forms- be it music, painting, theatre -and combines it together (not necessarily all of them) to create a new art form…the most derivative, yet highest of art form

Touche! Super stuff this! This review should be read by all other reviewers.

ăbzee 20 December 2009
01:19:25 am

Thanks for your kind words Som and Akshay. A greater appreciation would be if you guys went and caught this film at the earliest. I’m trying to catch it in IMAX 3D…but finding tickets is difficult…except for odd afternoon shows!

ăbzee 20 December 2009
01:23:41 am

Aarkayne- I respect your views. But when you suggest that it is like a tall building, and another will be built soon…I disagree. Avatar is such an expensive film, I don’t believe anybody will invest in such a project anytime soon. Which is why even though this film is being touted as a game-changer, it won’t do so in the immediate future. What it has done is set the ball rolling. We’ll see more 3D screens across the world and more IMAX ones as well. In due course, 3D Fusion Performance Capture Photography might become the way…and we shall look back at Avatar and say, yes…that started it all.

Btw, Big Cinemas is already planning setting up more 3D screens across India over the next decade! And so it begins!

ăbzee 20 December 2009
01:25:17 am

P.S.- I like the Taj Mahal analogy…but unfortunately everytime I think of the Taj Mahal, I also think of those who lost their fingers building it! This major footnote in the Taj’s history always corrupts my experience of it as a pure work of art, and paints it with a bittersweet feeling.

ăbzee 20 December 2009
01:27:00 am

Beld- Wow! You really did like my review! Thanks. I would’ve said you’re being too kind, but then you’ve never been kind to me…so chalta hai

I do urge that you catch this film at the earliest.

rockstar 20 December 2009
01:36:46 am

great review for a simply awesome movie

watched it yesterday and must say its 3 hours of thrilling experience

rockstar 20 December 2009
01:46:06 am

a abzee said in the review lot of verses here have been taken from gita itself and do various content from indian mythology as evident from name of movie itself(AVTAAR)

“Moreover, the title is an apt one…for an ‘Avatar’, as the Gita says, is merely a physical manifestation of the soul. The soul keeps reincarnating, until it finally finds its true ‘self’ (the Brahman-aatma) and becomes the twice-born. Jake’s physical handicap as a human being doesn’t prohibit his Na’vi avatar from running, jumping and pulling off other physical acts that he cannot as a human. But perhaps he always could, for it is his soul which governs both his human and Na’vi avatar.”

Jake’s feelings for Neytiri persuade him to go against his primary mission- that of infiltrating the Na’vi and convincing them to abandon Kelutrel, the hometree of the Na’vi (yet another Indian mythological allusion to the Kalpavriksha- the tree of life)

SIMPLY BRILLIANTLY DESCRIBED ….

must says even the animals have mythological refrences to especially the concept of bond used for taming which is ironical

akshay shah 20 December 2009
01:56:59 am

Stunning review as always from Abzee!

rockstar 20 December 2009
01:58:39 am

just a personal opinion:

some of the reviewers are complaining about script content which is amusing to say the least

even the love story has aroused emotion and it showed the love of higher order in which even jake agreed to change his body (Spoiler Aert)

Cameron has showed much wider points on it even in terms of today’s time in terms of navi’s and their customs

its we who are killing nature and ultimately it is hurting us ( global warming and oher misdeeds are done by human only …. and it is represented in terms of colonel and its army )

again killing or displacing people for aboundant natural resources and the fight for indigenous people to save it is no way different than lands beind grabbed for co-operatization by co-operates by taking over forests and other natural fertile lands

indigenous people are no way different than tribal maoists (in indian context) or various other people in different contextin different part of the world fighting for same )

“In short, I want to see the nearly 4 hour long Director’s Cut! And oh…make it 3D please!”

ya its must watch in 3d …… abzee some theatres in india are allready showing it in 3d format and they are are sold out out for entire weekend

rks 20 December 2009
02:10:13 am

abzee – I saw two trailors in 3D: Alice in Wonderland and Despicable me.

ăbzee 20 December 2009
02:41:36 am

RKS- Yeah, but those films haven’t been shot with the 3D Fusion Cameras.

ăbzee 20 December 2009
02:43:35 am

Akshay Shah- Appreciate your kind words, as always!

Rockstar- A lot many thanks. I’m glad that you enjoyed the film. And yes, you are quite right that even though the function of a film such as Avatar is not telling a story, it does paint in broad strokes an effective parable.

RAJ 20 December 2009
03:57:37 am

i am not a fan of sci fi movies …but after reading this recview i have to go an watch in theatres…Excellent review BTW..

Tango 20 December 2009
05:23:09 am

ăbzee great write up. I like the way you keep the syntax simple, rather than throwing in unecessary heavy words.

ali 20 December 2009
05:43:36 am

Outstanding Review.One of the FINEST review i have ever read for any Movie.
Just came back after watching it in 2D at Fun Cinema LKO and now plannig to watch it on INOX 3D .
In 2D also this Movie is just Outstanding and mindblowing and now i want to experience OUT OF THIS WORLD feeling by planning to watch it on 3D.
In every aspect this Movie is a Game Changer and Path Breaker and will Always remembered as a Milestone in 3D Movie History.
In Fact words are less to describe this ONE OF ALL TIME FINEST MOVIE.

ăbzee 20 December 2009
06:52:38 am

Raj- I’m glad my review has influenced you to go catch this film. You must, if only to see one man’s 12 year long labour of love.

ăbzee 20 December 2009
06:55:03 am

Tango- I don’t fancy myself as a writer…I merely jot down what I feel. When I’m ecstatic, they’re biased paeans and when I’m angry, they are rants!

I’m glad you liked the review though. I thought I was testing the patience of readers with its length. But as I said, I just kept writing what I had to say…the piece found its own length.

ăbzee 20 December 2009
06:56:19 am

Ali- You should most certainly catch it in 3D. If there’s an IMAX 3D in your vicinity, even better!

Tango 20 December 2009
08:07:12 am

ăbzee “I merely jot down what I feel.”

That is the key mate. Everything that is spontaneous is super, and everything that is artificial (where should I fit in hegemony, sacrosanct, benediction etc. so that I get this erudite seal) fails to get the approval/appreciation from me.

Do the same with reviews (music), listen, put the short thoughts down on paper, expand it (putting in lyrics, credits etc.).

ali 20 December 2009
10:14:44 am

yeah certainly abzee i will also try to watch it in Prasad 3D Hyderabad or in IMAX 3D in wadala,Mumbai , because i’m in Lucknow so i will try to go one of these two places as soon as possible.
I think True and real Experience of watching AVATAR can only be fulfill in IMAX 3D , so i’m looking forward to it.

Doga 21 December 2009
05:51:12 am

Abzee you still gave it 4.5 out of 5

This moment will never come again in history of cinema, should have given 5. Just Joking.

shetty 21 December 2009
08:38:08 am

Kunal’s Review of Avatar

How many people can say that they read the first song on radio? They read the world’s first newspaper? Saw first show of TV, well, thanks to James Cameron, I saw Avatar. Yes, thats how much of a game changer this movie actually is.

Read rest here

http://reellusions.blogspot.co.....-2-in.html

Rocky 21 December 2009
09:08:43 am

Wow -one more Break away faction, One more Blog !! Yeh Silsila Kab tak chalega………

fiddler 21 December 2009
10:09:11 am

cant wait to see this on IMAX 3D, IMO Lincoln square, New York has the best IMAX theatre I have been to

NyKavi 21 December 2009
03:00:57 pm

Didnt realize there is another baby born from NG’s womb: Reellusions.
Truth or Dare, Logic Meets Illusions! Wah Wah! Wah Wah!
Once in a Bluemoon, Kabhi Kabhi, Kabhi Kabhi..

Sexy is Back 21 December 2009
11:45:07 pm

Rocky: Wow -one more Break away faction, One more Blog !! Yeh Silsila Kab tak chalega………

Naah man, its not a break away faction of sorts, just one more place to talk about naach and gaana, truth and cinema, and OFC real and illusion *edited by rkb*

It was just that I couldn’t find anything to post, but when I saw Shetty’s 2 girls 1 cup comment, taht was inetresting enough for me to comment

BTW, thanks Shetty for putting up my review

Sexy is Back 22 December 2009
06:04:09 pm

Abzee: Nicely written piece here, thanks for sharing.
I had a few things to say about this as well, for one, I don’t really think that name Avatar has anything to do with Hinduism in this movie. It is a common word used to describe the characters we portray in many online games like World or warcraft, Second life etc. avatar in Hinduism is exclusively used for gods, not for humans, but then OFC English word Avatar has has its origin from Sanskrit word Avtaar.

Also Jake was paraplegic not since birth, but due to the injuries suffered in the wars he participated in. Hence it was not that his soul always knew how to run and jump, but he himself knew it as well.

And you think Jake was “omnipresent”? Because it was just his body which was kept in the machine, but he was not really “present”. And omnipresence means presence at all places, again a point that according to Hinduism avtaar doesn’t mean that god’s presence from anywhere else will have any effect. For example, Parshuram, and Ram, both regarded as avtaars of Vishnu, along with Vishnu, existed and worked at the same time. Parshuram even comes to kill Ram at one point of time.

Yes, it borrows a lot from Pagan cultures of the world, so OFC there are some similarities with Hindu culture as well, but then I don’t think there was any conscious effort from anywhere.

Again, very well written piece here, thanks.

Rockstar : even the love story has aroused emotion and it showed the love of higher order in which even jake agreed to change his body (Spoiler Aert)

hahahaha worst use of “Spoiler alert” ever in the history of spoiler alerts hahahaha

BTW great to see that everyone appreciated the movie and no one questioned why Cameron had to go to Pandora to show pretty much the same thing Cruise did in China, and could have been shown in Afghanistan or Iraq or whatever. Good to see a director’s vision being respected.

Sexy is Back 22 December 2009
06:10:09 pm

Rohit, I can understand that you have some issues with me, otherwise you would not edit my post without giving an intimation….*edited by rkb*

rkb 22 December 2009
06:19:36 pm

I choose to edit because you keep bringing up the same points when I told you not to do it again. So the edit was on that point only as I gave you warnings many times on this before.

If you have anything to say, say it to me on email, do not bring your rants on me on a public space and spoil NG or I will eventually ban you again.

Thanks.

rudresh 22 December 2009
11:06:55 pm

“example, Parshuram, and Ram, both regarded as avtaars of Vishnu, along with Vishnu, existed and worked at the same time. Parshuram even comes to kill Ram at one point of time. ”

Some correction here: Parshuram was not Puran avtaar , he was an Avesha Avatara, a secondary type of Avatara. In such an Avatara, Vishnu does not directly descend as do Rama or Krishna but instead enters the soul of a man with His form.

Only Puran avatars are worshipeed and Ram and Krishna are Puran avatar of lord(Some consider Krishna himself as supreme )

rudresh 22 December 2009
11:12:19 pm

So in case of Ram and Krishna , Vishnu as whole descend to earth, so it is wrong to say that vishnu exists along with Krishna and Ram and worked. He in totallity incarnated himself and when ever he took Puran avatar, Goddess Laxmi also took Puran Avatar along with him

My Name is Ali 14 January 2010
12:09:28 pm

To ABHISHEK BHAI(ABZEE)-
Congratulations Abzee Bhai that AVATAR now GROSSED 1,419 Million Dollars WORLDWIDE (No. 2 already and going fast to became No. 1)And TODAY it Became Fourth Highest Grossing Movie in North American Market by Grossing 445.768 Million Dollars .

On this Occasion , once again i’m reading your Review of AVATAR , Believe me it is one of TOP CLASS ARTICLE EVER , i have read on MOVIES .
Bas main yahi kahoonga ke har bar to IMAX 3D mein AVATAR nahin dekh sakta lekin aapka review zaroor parh leta hoon because your review has SIMILAR QUALITY LIKE MOVIE AVATAR . Great work dear , carry on

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