RAAVAN

In today’s world everywhere people know of ravan(a), they take his name with contempt. True, his act of abducting sita was horrendous and led to his meeting his end at the hands of rama.

 But in doing so, we forget that he was such a great person that Mahavishnu had to himself come and undergo all the tribulations of a human life and end his reign.

There is a situation in the Ramayana where in Ravan(a) compares himself and rama


na raamastapasaa devi na balena vikramaiH


na dhanena mayaa tulyastejasaa yashasaapi vaa



Now Rama is Mahavishnu, the supreme personality of godhead ; to be compared to Rama means a great achievement in itself. And all our scriptures teach us to see the good in even our enemies, else Valmiki would not have written such verses about ravana !

Now, coming to the film – though a lot has been said about the acting prowess of every1 save Abhishek (one of my friends felt vikram in ravanan was better) , I still feel Abhishek has come a long way from his Refugee & Drona days.

A highly mature performance from Abhishek, it was a class team act (Abhi,ash,vikram and also govinda and abhi’s brother).

When you make a film that is even loosely based on mythology, it is very important that the casting is done keeping in mind the characters of the original story, and save the huge gigantic figure, the voice that could crack trees, I believe Beera has lived up to his reputation of Ravan !!!

Kudos to Maniratnam, the photographer, Abhishek for a wonderful effort !

(Well, I still have not seen the tamil version, so will see it and comment!)


Anil