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.)