Production: Mani Ratnam
Star Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Vikram, Govinda
Rating: * *
Ratnam’s Raavan is the modern-day version of a hindu epic, Ramayan. However the role of the character 'Raavan' is quite transformed. He is not villain any more, he helps the needy people. He is worshipped by masses. It can be said that he is a MODERN RAAVAN.
Story is basically about Beera (Abhishek Bachchan), Ragini (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) and Dev Pratap Sharma (Vikram).
While boat riding a married women Ragini (Sita), wife of Police Officer Dev, gets kidnapped by the negative shade Beera (Raavan), as Beera wants to take revenge from Dev. After kidnapping her, he doesn’t know what to do. All he does with Ragini, is making her listen his meaningless jhik..jhik..jhik sorts of noise. There are some scenes in the movie in which police is looted easily.
Police attacks only when they give a valid reason to Beera to take revenge on the police force. Ramayan’s concept made it predictable. As one can easily guess rightly that what would be the next act. Just before the end of such a frustrating movie, Ragini starts liking her captor. Movie seems like focused more on doing wild acts.
Abhishek Bachchan is exposed in a compelety different manner, he acts ably. Aish justifies her role. South Indian Vikram gave a sparkling performance. Ravi kissan and Priyamani have done their best. When it comes to music, Behne De and Ranjha Ranjha are superb. However background music by A.R. Rahman is more lovely than the tracks.
A few weeks earlier, Prakash Jha presented Rajneeti packaged the other important epic, Mahabharata, is far better than Ratnam’s disappointing Raavan. Despite of involvement of the other face of Jha’s coin and big names of bollywood, the movie didn’t work upto the expectactions. It is more like a documentary than an entertaining movie.
Raavan is quite disappointing, predictable and average movie.
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ReplyDeletemani ratnam just forget one thing in dat movie
nd dat is story :-)
himani i think that u are now a perfect journalist!!!!!!!!! so we are just waiting for ur next review!!!! all the best!
ReplyDeletethanks dear :-)
ReplyDeleteoverall,the rating is ok but the presentation could be better..the criticism n narration seem to get directionless sometimes,so i think there is still spme room for improvement..exact required corrections can be communicated to u when i meet u or speak to u anytime later..congrats to u for starting this blog..u ve miles n miles to march ahead,gal..goodluck n gud work..abhinav anand
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