Sivaji Vs Dasavatharam

Being a big fan of Superstar how can I stop writing about the Sivaji's
roaring success all over the world. I am writing this only because some people
says that Dasavatharam beats Sivaji's box office records.

From First day of release

Ticket Price

I saw Sivaji The Boss on June 15 2007 Friday afternoon show in Tambaram Vidhya Theatre. The ticket price is Rs.200 in counter itself. But I reserved a ticket two days before the release. But for Dasavatharam, I saw on third day (Sunday) on the same theatre for just Rs.100.

In Sathyam, I watched at 75th Day in big screen. The show is housefull.
The second movie in Mayajaal to finish 100 days is Sivaji, the first is none other than Superstar's Chandramukhi. But Dasavatharam is moved to small screen in 50'th day by Superstar's Kuselan.

Festive Mood

Most of the theatre turns to festive mood from June 13 2007 itself. Police protection
was there for Sivaji. Huge cutouts and banners of Superstar all over the theatre.

But when we saw Dasavatharam there is nothing like that. I know that Kamal doesn't support cutouts and banner culture.

People Satisfaction

When we Sivaji, We are not fully satisfied with a first half. But second half is quite good and the climax is stunning, One of the electrifying performance of Superstar after Moonru Mugam, Basha, Betharayudu (telugu version of Nattamai) and finally Vettaiyan in Chandramukhi.

Dasavatharam is good only in first 30 minutes. Especially, Kamal's first avathar and US shots. Second half is realy boring. Telugu speaking Kamal gets applauce.

Songs

Sivaji songs are fantastic to watch and nice to listen. I would rate Picturization of the songs are excellent.

Dasavatharam's songs are good only for listening except Kallai Mattum Kandal...
Excellent voice by Hariharan and great acting by Kamal, excellent cinematography makes this song watchable. I hated to watch the climax song Ulaga Nayagane ... It is really worst song picturized. But the Song is nice to listen.

BGM

Sivaji's BGM is far better than Dasavatharam. Especially the climax Rap Music and music store fight BGM, Na Na Na BGM(for Superstar BGM) and the interval BGM (also film title BGM).

Dialogues

Dialogues in Dasavatharam is no where near to Sujatha's in Sivaji except climax dialogues and some dialogues by Telugu Kamal.

Humour

Vivek, Rajni combo make people laughter most of the times. But in Dasavatharam only telugu Kamal makes comedy that too only in some places.

BoxOffice

Sivaji is cleary the winner in UK, Malaysia, Singapore and SouthAfrica. Not sure about USA and other countries. In Norht India, Sivaji gone well with the audiences without any subtitles. But Dasavatharam even with sutitles did not pull crowd like Sivaji. In chennai, by sources Dasavatharam is just a crore behind Sivaji. And the Sivaji's Opening is the biggest ever in India. Sivaji the first tamil film to enter UK Top 10 and South Africa Top 10. In Malaysia, the record of Film Jeans broke by Sivaji and in chennai Sathyam Sivaji broke Anniyan's Collection. On the whole, beating Sivaji is possible only by Shankar and Rajini combo i.e Robot.

Report from IndiaFM - site which shows Indian film's box office records

Super-star Rajnikant's SIVAJI-THE BOSS has fetched one of the biggest starts ever in U.K. In terms of screen average, the Tamil film has not only overtaken JHOOM BARABAR JHOOM by leaps and bounds, but also surpassed Hollywood biggies like FANTASTIC FOUR, OCEAN'S THIRTEEN and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN this weekend.

Extra-ordinary!

DASAVATHARAM [Tamil film] has debuted at No. 12 position. In its opening weekend, the film has collected £ 1,26,747 [approx. Rs. 1.07 crores] on 19 screens, with the per screen average working out to £ 6,671.
The breakdown:- Thursday previews: £ 19,224; Friday: £ 28,772; Saturday: £ 41,589; Sunday: £ 37,162.

Sources:

http://www.indiafm.com/trade/overseas_boxoffice/163.html

The verdict

Finally, Kamal's ten roles could not take on single Mottai Boss MGR in Sivaji.
Do you people think breaking Chandramukhi's records is easy?. Chandramukhi is all time blockbuster and it was broke out only by Sivaji that too because of North Indian media and Shankar, ARR and Superstar Combo. So, it is not at all possible for Dasavatharam to beat Sivaji - The Real Boss (Box Office SuperStar). Dasavatharam may be a second highest collecting film in South India.