Raavanan - a review

The most awaited film Raavanan was screened on 18th June, simultaneously in Hindi and Tamil and dubbed in Telugu as Villan. The film was both directed and produced by Manirathnam with his wife Suhasini being the script-writer.

Actor Vikram did a wonderful job by acting in both the languages in two entirely different opposite roles. Interesting news is that he played both these roles one after another repeatedly with just 15 minutes for changing the costumes and make-up. In the Hindi version, Manirathnam made him to speak dubbing in his own voice.

Aishwarya Rai too did the best in her part. She wanted to do dubbing in her own voice in the Tamil version of the film(because only if she does that, she will be able to sit as one of the nominees for the National Awards). But since the director was not convinced with her Tamil pronunciation, he made actress RohiniRaghuvaran do that job.

Coming to the Story, we can say that it is the modern version of the epic Ramayana. Pritviraj(Dev) is depicted as Ram, Aish(Ragini) as Sita and Vikram(Veera) as Raaavanan. The roles of Hanuman, Soorpanaga and Kumbakarnan were played by Karthik, PriyaMani and Prabu respectively. The film opens with Veera readying himself to kidnap Ragini and as the film Proceeds audience alternatively get both good and bad opinions about the character Veera. Audience became much excited notably at three contexts during the course of the movie. The first one during the intro-song and next during the usure-poguthe song and another during the part when the controversy queen actress Ranjitha came to the scene.

The visualization effects and the cinematography would make everyone to freeze, with AR Rahman's music adding more chillness to it. Suhasini's Scripts were too good and apt to show the character Ragini as a brave and a bold girl. Vairamuthu's lyrics were amazing with the tribal flavour blended with village smell in classical Tamil.

A major flaw in this film is that some parts were a bit unclear among the audience, especially in the parts close to the climax. Whether Dev suspects Ragini really or he pretends as if he was suspecting her in order to trace out Veera's hidden place? Whether Ragini's feelings on Veera is just a sympathy or it is affection or something else ? Mani could have been clearer in those portions. It would have been nice if he had made those contexts as self-explanatory rather making audience infer something. Leaving these flaws, the film is definitely worth-watching and I'm sure that it will be a super hit in box office.