The much awaited Block-buster, a complete secret affair from the Ace film director Mani Rathnam is out to finish off all its rivals in all forms to create a new record in the industry! Mani Rathnam who is known to venture into current politics has once again, approached a bold theme leaving the imagination to the public to understand the logic displayed by the current extremist elements in India. There are lots of traces of directorial preachings from his mentor K Balachander and sequences that match the earlier films like Roja, Bombay etc..
The director is totally in love with Aishwarya Rai as is evident from the photographic angles and the way the ethnic beauty has been pictured frame to frame! Aish is absolutely stunning in every frame and looks an awesome beauty who can still give a run for any Miss World title holder even in the next forthcoming years!
Vikram who is a versatile actor has given his life for the role of Veera who has been equalled to the Mythological Asura Ravanan but known to be a perfect human. This depiction of parallel characters from Mythology kindles one's mind of being familiar to the characters and moots the brain to compare and analyse! This is the secret to the Box-Office success of the film and I would not be wrong in saying that the same yard stick was applied by the Bollywood director Prakash Jha in his latest Rajneethi!
The film can boast of shooting 50% in Deep jungles and the rest 50% in waters! The song sequences in the jungles splashed with water reminds you fondly of song scenes of Talapathi and the cupid arrows that warmed up the hearts of the lead characters! It was Bhaunu priya and Rajini then in Talapathy who were blessed during the song sequence! The first half of the film seems to be fully inspired by his earlier film Roja with the roles of the lead actors inter-changed!
In the year 1975 when Sholay was released, there was this popular dialogue voiced by the villian in Amjad Khan "Jab Raat ko Baccha Rota Hai to Maa bolthi hai.. Beta so ja nahin to Gabbar aajaayega". The Tamil meaning is that when the child cries at night, the mother fondly tells the child to sleep as otherwise Gabbar singh will appear! That was the phrase of terror emphasised. The Tamil director has replaced those words now and the mothers in the southern states can put their children to sleep by using the word "Veera"!
A R Rehman has scored conceptual music with jungle themes which are, as usual, captivating and popular amongst the younger generations but doubt very much if any one can render those compositions in a private audience without music?
Prithivi Raj as the cop in pursuit of the dreaded Veera is impressive and looks somewhere like the real police officer Vijay Kumar IPS who was instrumental in killing the dreaded terrorist Veerappan, a few years back! The character of the film is enhanced with the presence and acting skills of veteran actors in Karthik
and Prabhu who live their roles true to the essence of the film.
The director seems to be so possessive about the lead lady that there are hardly any love or romance in the
film and seems to have disappointed a huge fan following of Aishwarya Rai who would have liked her to romance as well to satisfy their misty-romantic,imaginations!
The film ends with Veera dying at the hands of Dev, the husband of the lead lady re-establishing the belief and saying "Triumph of good over the evil". One question that holes up your mind is the first scene shot of the heroine who is the wife of the top Cop hunting the Robin hood , sailing in a boat with just one boatman as her security in a jungle dominated by the dreaded Veera! Its so easy for the noted rebel to ram her small boat and take her in captivity!! The director goes a minus 1 point in this plot!
Although I have not seen the Hindi version of the film, I sincerely feel that Abhi with his baby face will not suit the role of Beera in Hindi and will not impact! Vikram as the police cop in pursuit of Beera will naturally be a very strong actor who will ease Abhi out of the frames through his versatile acting. abhi and Aish should have cleverlly eliminated Vikram from being cast in Hindi as he will be a very potential threat to Abhishek, acting wise!
K balachander, noted film producer and director used to employ these plots of controversy in every film and spark a public debate which used to linger on for several months from the release of the film! Mani Rathnam has used the same skills in this film enough to spark debates and create a catch 22 situation even amongst the individuals to ponder and analyse this film and accept different plots which run parallel to the Religious epic Ramayana! One requires not one head to analyse this film, probably 10 heads!!
yesterday i saw ravaan . today I am reading your comments. Truly the credit your goes to your comments .You have put across the feelings and other thoughts that would have gone through watching this tamil version of the movie..In our land of Hosur the ticket was priced @10/- ( parking of the car also 10/- )price war competition of two theaters. ( sasi )
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