Back Home after watching this years most anticipated movie Raavanan(Tamil,Vikram,Prithviraj,Aishwarya Rai),Mananged to get tickets for the noon show itself.After a long gap,I am a writing a Movie review here.
Raavanan,can be said as the movie for which Maniratnam efforted the most in his career,had an attack before the shoot and after all the long time period of 2 years, Raavan(Hindi) and Raavanan(Tamil ) was able to release in India in 2k+ theaters
Plot( No spoilers,Read On)
Raavanan is the story of the revenge of Veera(Vikram) against Deva(Prithviraj) who was responsible for the death of Veera’s sister (Priyamani).Veera Kidnaps Deva’s wife Raagini(Aishwarya rai) and the story advances.The movie is a mere adaptation of Ramayanam and Vikram,Prithviraj,Aishwarya Rai,Karthik can be considered as the representation of Raavanan,Rama,Seetha and Hanuman(But Ramayanam is not fully adapted,just has the mere traces in characters and storyline )
Performances
Vikram delivered a mind blowing performance as Veera,he was convincing Physically as well as Performance wise.Hopefully this should the best performance of Vikram till date.
Aishwarya Rai( looked beautiful and sexy) and Prithviraj would just pass on performance wise.Priyamani was short but delivered top notch performance.
Why should you Watch Raavanan?
So why should you watch Raavanan? As the promo trailers indicated the movie is visually top class,Photography was being amazing.All the jungle,waterfalls was being taken brilliantly,I wondered whether these places were there in India or not!Lots of scenes especially the hanging bridge scene in the climax took my breath away.
Positives
1.The movie is a 2.10 hours of visual Feast,you will be glued on to the seats ,eyes wide open just because of the beautiful Visuals taken by Maniratnam,Santosh Sivan and Manikandan.
2.Vikram is at his best,Dialogue Delivery and physical getup makes him perfect for Veera.Prabhu and Priyamani was also good.
3.Songs done by A R Rahman is not great but good to hear.
What didn’t work for Raavanan?
1.The script lacks Completion or Perfection,The intimacy between Veera and Ragini didn’t work that well.
2.Climax could have been much better(Lots of options were there for the climax)
3.Ar Rahman movies always contained great background scores and Raavanan rises out as an exception.
Verdict
Dont mind the inital reviews,Just go for Raavanan and you will get 2.30 hours of Visual treat.
3.8/5
(It much deserves 4 star,but the climax, even though not bad could have been better.So 3.8/5)
NB: And the fans association attacks continues(Was not able to hear anything for the first 10 minutes.)
Five Point some one is now creating trends in between the youth,what about a book which is 10 times entertaining than Five Point Someone ?
All of you might know about the inbuilt humor sense of actor/producer Mukesh,he is very famous for his spot wits and stories,these Mukesh Stories are very much popular among the cine artists and its a fact that most of the cine artists love to hear these Mukesh Stories.Mukesh Stories are built up on a principle(According to himself),No one should get upset by the stories as all the stuffs are made for fun ,the victim of the story should take it at that sense.
His stories are now available as a book titled MUKESH KADHAKAL(Olive publishers) which I came to read recently,I read the book with some preconceptions that It would be very entertaining,lots of humour etc and book was on par with my expectations.
The whole book is divided into 3 sections,the section 1 deals with his College life 2nd one is about when he just reaches the film industry and 3rd one with his established film career.
The book is molded in different funny incidents from his college life to the film star Mukesh.
Given below is such a funny story from his college life in which he fools a beautiful lady who studied in Fathima College which is near to S.N college (from which Mukesh did his degree)
His writing resembles Vaikom Muhammed Basheer’s who was a master teller of simple stories which were filled with lots of stuffs to laugh at the same time which tickles your brain too,This happens to be the book from which I’ve laughed a lot(Apart from basheer stories like Anappoda,Tharaspecials and all).
MUKESH KADHAKAL is a must read if entertainment is your target.You can buy this stuff at your nearby bookstall at Rs 100.