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Ravana
This is not entertainment or art -it is pulp mixed with trash packaged with shamelessly stolen visuals and it does no favours to Ramayana in its lousy duration of 2 hors and 20 minutes with a paranoid narrative with misty forests and green ravines and a lush middle aged ,aishwariya trying to desperately cope with two men she obviously is not very fond of in reality or onscreen too .
Mr-ratnam please go back to real actors like Ajay Devgan and Monisha koirala and turn out something with an original script with some credible gimmicks rather than the falling bodies of aishwariya and a deep diving' beera' ,from every hill and height in india .
A rather sullen and desynchronised ,somewhat stylised version of s0-called ramayana borrowed from multiple sources .
On second thoughts did mani really direct this or was it being ghost directed by ravan himself in a surreal reincarnation ,and that will explain the rather inscrutable and lacklustre slumber that graces the screen at a slovenly clumsy pace ,for aishwariya runs much faster than the screen time itself .
"coppola's apocalaypse ",but not a fraction as interesting ,and the climax on a suspension bridge -SUSPENDS ALL BELIEF
-and is inadvertently hilarious.
Director : Mani Ratnam
Cast : Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, 'Chiyaan' Vikram, Govinda, Prithviraj,Bipasha Basu
Producer : Mani Ratnam
Music: A.R.Rahman