Dasavathaaram 1

The blur begins assuming the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium abounding with an audience, actuality hosted by Govindarajan Ramaswamy (Kamal Haasan) with arresting personalities including Prime Minister of India, Dr.Manmohan Singh, the President of the United States George Bush (Kamal Haasan) and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M. Karunanidhi built-in on the stage, afterward the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Govind explains the abstraction of the anarchy theory[dubious – discuss] and its furnishings on the world. Govind begins by reciting contest from Chidambaram in the 12th aeon Chola authority of South India. Kulothunga Chola II, (Napolean) the King of the authority is a Saivite, assertive in the Hindu deity, Shiva. The King wants to get rid of all temples of the celestial Vishnu, followed by the Vaishnavites and intends to booty a ample idol of Vishnu from a temple absorbed on administration it in the Bay of Bengal. However, Rangaraja Nambi (Kamal Haasan), a Vaishnavite, tries to stop the King from administration his deity. Uncovering Nambi's affairs to stop the idol's disposal, the King tells him to abdicate his acceptance or be destroyed forth with his idol. Nambi refuses to bow to any added god, admitting pleas from his wife, Kothai Radha, (Asin Thottumkal) and their son, and is after angry to the huge idol and both are befuddled in the Bay of Bengal.

The arena switches to the anniversary above-mentioned the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, alpha on December 20, 2004. Govindarajan Ramaswamy, frequently accepted as Govind, is a biotechnologist alive at a lab in California, USA. He works in an alignment which had invented a baleful virus which has the abeyant to be the greatest bio-weapon anytime fabricated by man, with the absolute amount actuality kept able-bodied protected. However during an advertisement with George Bush, Govind's lab monkey breaches the aegis attention the bio-weapon and swallows it, killing it and bearing a adverse effect. Afterward this discovery, Govind wants to abort it, with the alone accessible antidote actuality the bond of the weapon with sodium chloride. But his boss, Dr. Sethu (Rajesh Toleti) at the alignment has a altered abstraction and attempts to advertise it to agitator organizations. Upon the analysis of this, Govind makes off with the canteen absolute the virus and flees to his friend, Suresh's (Sanjay) home. Suresh betrays Govind and informs the bang-up that Govind is at his house.