i saw the same avvaiyar, adhiyan and marriage of paari vallal's daughter in a stage play telecast in DD last week... full comedy ponga.....
not that all DD plays are comedy... plays like "chanakya sabadham (r.s.manohar)", "tirumalai naicker(heron ramasamy)", "aswathaman (rudraapathi)" are gems.....
regading same things happenning cyclical..some say tha vishnu's various avadhaarams resemble evolution.. but iam not sure...
for instance in "koorma puranam" vishnu along with sanakaadhi rishis sit and listen to "lord Shiva" 's teachings.. this is called "easwara Geethai".....if sankaadhi rishis were in the human form i dont understand what ist he purpose of koorma avadhaaram being evolutionary....pls dont ask me whether this is "dakshinamorthy" form.. i not sure
in "easwara geethai" itself shiva tells that he is skandha / muruga/ karthikeya for various reasons.. means soorapanman might have existed before koormaavadhaaram??? konjam kuzhappam dhaan .. suzharchi pathi konjam yosikkanum naama.....
Konjam "garuda puraanam" padicheenganna theriyum. Indha time factor vandhu evvalavu kuzhappam vilaivikkumnu. Viswamithrar kannda kannda idangalil ellaam varuvaar. (it is not only vishwamithrar but many characters). Oru continuity irukkaadhu.
in mahabratham krishnan even takes arjunan on a tour to vaikuntaam and shows "mahavishnu" sayanichufying in "tirupaarkadal".. idhellaam enga poi solradhu????