The story is about this confused and angry man, Beera. He has many shades to his character – 10 shades actually, representing symbolically the 10 heads of Raavan. He kidnaps ‘Sita’ of this Ramyana, which is played by Aishwarya Rai to bring the ‘Ram’ of the film to him. Ram/ or Dev (Lord) as he is called is angry and beside himself. He will bring Beera to justice. However, his character departs from Ram now. Dev is now a regular mean policeman, who can go to any length to bring back his wife.
Beera is shown as a good man who due to his circumstances of life has gone bad. His isolation from reality, makes him act weird and make odd noises. He wants to strike fear in everyone’s heart. But the jungles and the people in the village are his family. It is now very Veerapan style khichdi. The village people want to protect their saviour, who protects them, feeds them and in general is a hero to the local village folk.
Anyway, so Madam is now trying to escape and act all bold, but she is slowly seeing the other side of the picture. She learns why she was kidnapped and is horrified. The circumstances change and predictably we have our Raavan falling hard for our damsel in distress.
The ending shows how deceitful the modern day Ram / Dev is, and how he uses his suspicion for his wife to his advantage.
Raavan as a film that looks good. It has beautiful shots of the jungle, a beautiful Aishwarya Rai, and breathtaking shots of steep cliffs. The unfortunate part is that it is a bit disjointed. It seems like a lot of reel was edited to make it slick. The effect was a film with abrupt scenes, and one too many songs for no apparent reason.
If there is one good thing to watch for is for Govinda. Yes, he is in the film!
Raavan movie cast and crew details
Star cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Govinda, Vikram, Bipasha Basu, Ravi Kissan, Suhasini and Tejaswini Kolhapure
Director and Story: Mani Ratnam
Banner: Big Pictures
Producer: Sharda
Music: A.R. Rehman
Lyricist: Gulzar
Presented by: Madras Talkies
Raavan movie Release date: 18th June 2010
Star: *** (that was one extra star just for the cinematography)
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