Dashavtar is based on the ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu and has been directed by Bhavik. It has been produced by the Pune-based Anushvi Productions in association with Phoebus Creations Media Pvt. Ltd.
Shatrughan Sinha is the narrator for Dashavtar, an animation film scheduled for January 2008.
Besides Shatrughan Sinha, Sachin Khedekar lends his voice for the Lord Vishnu, Shreyas Talpade for Naarad, Rupali Ganguly for Apsara, Tom Alter for Parshuram, Shishir Sharma for Bali Raja, Kenneth Desai for Lord Indra, Vinay Apte for Kansa and Ashish Vidyarthi for Hiranakashyap.
The film starts with two children, Aarti and Ajay, who have escapes from kidnappers and taken shelter in an abandoned temple. The kidnapper and his henchmen arrive and set fire to the temple door in the hope of burning them alive. As the girl prays to the idol of Lord Krishna a miracle happens and the goons get a beating. A pujari appears, and Ajay believes that they were saved by him.
But the pujari who is none other than Lord Vishnu's devotee Naarad, who assures the children that it was none other than the Lord himself who is their saviour. As the boy is skeptical, Naarad decides to prove the Lord's power and tricks the children into reciting a mantra that sends them into space, their dress and appearance changing to a traditional one.
They are transported in time when the world is facing a cosmic dissolution. Lord Brahma. having created the world through his day (which spans millions of years ) is now resting through the night waiting for the dissolution of the world before he starts the creation for a new age. While sleeping the Vedas slip out of Brahmadev's mouth and the demon Hayagreev listens to them and decides to absorb the Vedas, which is seen by an apsara who panics and approaches Naarad Muni to stop the catastrophe. And then Lord Vishnu appears to fulfill the cosmic destiny of selecting 'Manu' to carry civilization forward and save the Vedas for mankind.
Dashavatar, with its ten superheroes pitted against the vilest villains ever, will enthrall Indians as well as the rest of the world with our mythological tales. It has instant universal appeal for its entertainment value, content, technical finesse and production values of international standards.
It weaves together the fascinating stories of Ram, Krishna, Parshuram, Vaman, Narsimha, Buddhaand also the tales of Vishnu in earlier avtaars Matsya, Kurma and Varaha and Kalki avtaar!
Dashavtar is an odyssey through time, showing the values of the old world matching the sensibilities of the modern one
The songs have been written by rising poet Sandeep Khare and composed by debutant music director Anand Kurekar. They are sung by Shankar Mahadevan, Shaan, Kunal Ganjawala, Shreya Ghoshal and others. The film has been mixed at Yashraj Films Studio under the stewardship of Anuj Mathur. It is produced by Rahul Bakshi.