Malayalam cannot afford tht much money to make a movie like dasavatharam.
It can sure make stories like in dasavatharam where characters and their stories ar connected to each other b.c of cirucumstances or issues in the society. Hence, malayalam films have made movies i.e tht in diffrnt genres.
Recently adoor gopalakrishnan made movies on four characters and their lives and the curse of being a women in this world is highlighted in this movie.
As far as technical brilliance shown in dasa required alot of money and also kamal's showcase of his 10 charactrs also require alot of money.
So its true one can't compare both cinema's, as to each its own.
On the othr hand, its only few filmakers in tamil cinema who has shown maturity and not fall into the "pleasing the masses" trap.
