Wooooowwwwwwwww, what a movie really Santhosh Sivans photography was awesome, Aishwarya's and Vikram's acting(Ravanan) is one more highlight in this movie. Ofcourse the BGMs were maven by our BOSS!!
On 18 June 2010 06:51, Gopal Srinivasan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > An Indian Epic With Bollywood Glamour > Reliance Big Pictures > > Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in “Raavan.” > > - > FACEBOOK<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/movies/18raavan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss#> > - SIGN IN TO > E-MAIL<http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/movies/18raavan.html> > - > PRINT<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/movies/18raavan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print> > > <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/movies/18raavan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all> > - > SHARE<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/movies/18raavan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss#> > > > <http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&opzn&page=www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/movies&pos=Frame4A&sn2=9b5d8c1d/9644a0a5&sn1=54ed3ade/54cf19&camp=foxsearch2010_emailtools_1225554c_nyt5&ad=Cyrus_120x60_01.25&goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efoxsearchlight%2Ecom%2Fcyrus> > By RACHEL SALTZ > Published: June 18, 2010 > > This film has been designated as a Critics' Pick. > > The low-caste Beera rules the forest in “Raavan,” Mani Ratnam’s richly > atmospheric adaptation of the Indian epic “The Ramayana.” Though the film > takes place in the present, Mr. Ratnam’s forest remains an appropriately > primeval place for mythic doings, full of fog and mists and rain and Beera’s > mud-painted followers (shades of “Apocalypse > Now”<http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/2675/Apocalypse-Now/overview> > ). > > Raavan (Ravana in Sanskrit), as every Indian knows, is the demon in “The > Ramayana” who kidnaps Sita, the wife of Rama: king, deity and model husband > (as Sita is the model wife). Early on in Mr. Ratnam’s film the question is > asked: Is Beera (a gleefully hammy Abhishek Bachchan) Robin Hood or Raavan? > He’s both — and more a hero in this telling, set on his turf, than is the > Rama character, a cop called Dev (Vikram), who matches Beera in brutality > and cunning, but not in heart. > > “Raavan” has Bollywood glamour aplenty, with the lovely if occasionally > dramatically challengedAishwarya > Rai<http://movies.nytimes.com/person/232903/Aishwarya-Rai?inline=nyt-per> > Bachchan, > Mr. Bachchan’s wife, playing the Sita stand-in. The real star, though, is > Mr. Ratnam, a talented visual storyteller who directs action crisply and > fills the screen with striking images. (One, of Ms. Bachchan’s falling body > landing gracefully on a tree branch, is so good he uses it three times.) > > Artful but not arty, Mr. Ratnam, whose films include “Dil Se” and > “Guru,”<http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9B00EED71F39F932A05752C0A9659C8B63> > delivers > the goods: There are songs and dances (A. R. > Rahman<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/a_r_rahman/index.html?inline=nyt-per> > of “Slumdog > Millionaire”<http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/movies/12slum.html> fame > did the excellent score), and an eye-popping climactic battle, between the > bad-good Beera and the good-bad Dev, on a teetering suspension bridge. And > that, folks, is entertainment. > > RAAVAN > > Opens on Friday nationwide. > > Written and directed by Mani Ratnam; directors of photography, Santosh > Sivan and V Manikandan; edited by Sreekar Prasad; music by A. R. > Rahman<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/a_r_rahman/index.html?inline=nyt-per>; > costumes by Sabyas Achi; produced by Mr. Ratnam and Sharada Trilok; released > by Reliance Big Pictures. In Hindi, with English subtitles. Running time: 2 > hours 18 minutes. This film is not rated. > > WITH: Abhishek Bachchan (Beera Munda), Aishwarya > Rai<http://movies.nytimes.com/person/232903/Aishwarya-Rai?inline=nyt-per> > Bachchan > (Ragini Sharma), Vikram (Dev Pratap Sharma) and Govinda (Sanjeevani). > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/movies/18raavan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss > > > -- Regards, Uday Kiran
