Raavan - Hindi

Raavan – Hindi:-
The story of the movie is as it is as it was predicted. The movie shows up the goodness in Raavan. There were several emails regarding the climax of the movie, and almost all of them were wrong. Or maybe because these emails, Mani had to change some things in the climax. I sometimes in the movie felt, Mani is trying to portrait ten different faces of Raavan using several situations, but I was wrong, he might have tried, but not in depth.
The Screenplay also didn’t seem to be much interesting because each of the viewers is already expecting the next scene. However the Screens, the frames of the movie are very extraordinary, and for this particular reason, you HAVE to watch the movie in big screens.
Santhosh Sivan has broken his all previous records, with this movie. In almost all the scenes of the movie, it is raining, and you could feel the rain when you watch the movie. Some scenes can be easily differentiated as Computer Graphics, but the rest is really good. I need to watch Raavan in Tamil to appreciate Santhosh more, because if he has shot the scenes in similar areas, with similar lights and same kind of atmosphere, then it’s HATs OFF Santhosh. Not only the outdoors, even the indoor scenes rock, especially the scene where Vikram burns the news paper in which Aish’s and Abhi’s photo is published.
Mesmerizing Music, By ARR all over the movie. We can never express the feel which he has given with words. So I am leaving the rest or you to watch and experience. Editing of the movie is not very special and there are some misses here and there. Yes the movie doesn’t give you a complete feel in a single stream. It seems it has been cut in so many places, which makes the movie little scene by scene drama.
Abhishek could have done better in his voice modulation, body language etc. But still he gets lots of applaud from the viewers. Most of them should go to the Makeup team, and the art directors. But still many of us see the actor in front and forget the artists behind showing him so beautiful, in this case so aggressive in the movie.
They could have kept Aish’s hair shorter, she doesn’t look pretty natural in this hairstyle, or did Mani want to see her as a real Sita? God Knows, but she has also failed equally in this movie, and could have done lot better for that role. In most of the scenes she looks bit tired, is it because of walking over such a terrain, completely drenched?
Vikram on the other hand, has performed nicely. He has infact lost some weight when compared to Bheema. He looks perfectly in this movie, but the chemistry with Aishwarya doesn’t look perfect. Others like Govinda(the movie could have worked even without him but still we need one person as Hanuman) , Priyamani, Nikhil Dwivedi have performed okay in their character. But taking the lead in sub actor role is Ravi Kissen, he has given his best shots, with acting, language, looks etc.
Now the man behind all the above, Maniratnam, I should say has failed in his tests. It is never like his movie. He has depended on casts this time, which he never does. He makes the character out of each actor and in this movie, he has not concentrated much on that.
His technical ability can never be matched, and he still has stood the best with his great team, but atleast it is again a weak story. Atleast the people who sent me the email, had sent me better climax than this. He has invested so much of ability, techniques, money, man power and at the end the result is what everyone expected.
However at the end, you come out with a great disappointment. Raavan could have been better if he had stayed BAD.
Rating :- 2.5 / 5 (this is especially for ARR and Santhosh Sivan)