RAAVAN Movie Review (All Members+Critics Reviews) - Page 16

Originally posted by: anjali10

God, what a waste of time, money and everything. Abhishek & Ash need to go back to taking acting classes . What was Mani Ratnam thinking, very very bad direction. Worst movie ever. 😵 🥱 🤣

same here. I am disappointed big time.

i actually quite liked the movie!!

Did not see the Hindi version but just just loved the Tamil version. Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous. Acting was brilliant, dialogues superb (penned by Mani's wife, Subashini). I would watch it again and again.

Sorry for you guys who watched the Hindi version. Abishek cannot act. I heard Vikram was wonderful too, so I might see with English subtitles.

The moral of the story is not "You raped my sister, now I'll kidnap your wife". It is "No one is 100% good, no one is 100% evil". As the movie progresses, you will find your sympathy grow for Veera and you get impassioned with Dev. The ruthless manner in which he shoots Vibisena (not 100%, but you can guess it is he) who comes as a messenger makes you flinch.

Try and see the Tamil version, if you can.

This is my review for the Tamil movie:

First of all, don't follow the reviews. Read them, by all means but go and see for yourself and judge it yourself. Reviewers are not experts. If someone pays me money to watch a film and write a piece on it, I will become a reviewer too!!! That does not mean that my opinion is better than someone else's. 😆

I saw Ravanan last night with my sisters and brother. We loved it. It was fabulous...and sorry Mani, it is a lift off Ramayana. Of course the story is wafer-thin. It starts with Ragini being kidnapped and Dev pursuing Veera. It's like watching 48 Hours or some Hollywood movie. In the wafer-thin story however, there is a richness of acting and visuals. Dev (Privithiraj) is Rama, Ragini(Aish) is Sita, Veera (Vikram) is Ravana, Prabhu (Singam) is Kumbakarna, Sakkarai (the character) is Vibhusena, Karthik is Hanuman and Vennila (Priyamani) is Soorpanakha. 14 days spent in the forest is 14 years of Rama's banishment. In the epic, Rama asks Sita to do a fire jumping test. In Ravana, he asks her to take a polygraph (lie-detecting) test. 😆

This is not a film for Ramayana faithfuls. It is not for people who love good vs evil epics. This film is about shades of grey. You will not feel sorry for Dev; your sympathies will be for Ravana. Vennila is not the lustful, vengeful asura but rather an extremely charming, cheeky sister who suffers cruelty. (I won't elaborate any further as I don't want to spoil it for those who hadn't seen it). You flinch at many moments, you feel your heart harden at certain times and you cry along with Ragini. You will not do this at any other Tamil movie except Mani's, because it is so unpredictable.

Everyone goes on about how gorgeous the visuals were. I agree, but to be honest, I did not focus on that because for me the characters grabbed me with their intensity, the storyline dragged me along the lush greenery of the forests. Sometimes the dialogue made it difficult for me to follow but some of it was very cryptic -e.g when Veera tells Dev: Your wife is like gold....even when you burn her in fire, she will shine like even brighter." Even the music took a back seat and this was new for me as I just adore ARR.

Aishwarya was an eye-opener. She stood out....and she used her own voice and did a very good job too. Vikram - no need to say anything more. Privithraj was cold and pitiless. And yes, Vikram had a beautiful moustache and Privithiraj was clean-shaven. 😉

Hindi version was crap apparently but again Vikram was rumoured to have done a brilliant job there.

Moral of the story: No one is 100% good, no one is 100% evil.

My rating: 51/2* out of 5.

^I liked both versions! According to me Vikram was the best part of both versions and then Ash! I didn't really like Abhi's acting, but Prithviraj was so good!!! But I'll say again Vikram stole the show! Abhi is nothing compared to Vikram, I'm so glad Abhi didn't do the Tamil version!! And Ash, so stunning and loved her acting!

the movie is the worse movie i have ever seen, i expect alot from mani all his previous movies have been brilliant a true master piece but this time it was a major let down

i feel its about time mani moves away from his abhi obsession as he is bad actor, his expression are annoying they are too many & when he dances if you call what abhi does is dance, then his lip biting expression is getting annoying he needs to stop dping that with his mouth when he is dancing

ash could never act & still nothing has changed, her squeaky voice was annoying to rubbish acting, muddled up story line & messed up editing has made this movie a sore sight

I'd rather watch Kites 🤣 🤣

I thought Ash was superb in this movie! Most reviews said she was great. That is enough for me and who cares if this movie flopped? Ash has been verstaile over the last 4 years and to see her in such a raw role, especially with no make-up was awesome! But, she still looked so gorgeous without make-up. This woman is amazing in beauty no matter how old she gets!!! 😍