Sometimes I did two different looks /make ups as we were building the makeup in layers and it was done in a lab. Everyday for 21 days was hard work and one time Mr Michael also pushed himself in helping me with wiring me for a photo shoot held me too as I wanted to try a kick a certain way. Mr Michael Westmore bent over backwards and did a stupendous job during the trial. Īny producer would have found it ridiculous that the director and I went to the US for 21 days to do make up tests for all the looks, but we did it. The rest were new to the ideation ,scale and budget. My biggest support was from Mr sujatha who said " you got it bang on man". It was a very important exercise as they are all are experts and have the expertise to analyze the script. We had Mr Sujata, Mr Madhan, Mr Ramesh Arvind, Mr Crazy Mohan all sit with us for a narration and I answered all the questions they kept asking. Once I finished the logline with Mr Mukta Srinivasan, the director was still skeptical about the way the script was written. I took his advise and spent all my time on it. He heard the Dasavatharam script and he said "kamal you must watch over the film closely as its your idea and goes further and says foster it like your child.They will kill the child otherwise if you only decide to walk in and out of shoot". In Nayakan, thanks to Mr Mukta, the Heroine's character was beautifully written as a young girl who prepares her exams while being an inmate in a brothel. For Dasavatharam it wasn’t any different and thus I wanted to take Mr Mukta Srinivasan's opinion as he has string instincts and is a brilliant short story writer. Most of the time I work alone and like to take the opinion of seniors and well wishers while on a project. He immediately claimed it a winner on cards and was was surprised that it was turned down and asked to make the film while on a telephonic conversation with me at Eldams road.
Dasavatharam was a script which was declined by many directors who said they didn't understand it, and quite unexpectedly Mr Ravikumar jumped at it.