RAAVANAN REVIEW

RAAVANAN
A wonderful intro to Vikram (Raavan)as he enters the story as veera and kidnaps Aishwarya rai bachchan(seetha) and goes into the woods with her with the intent of killing her.As soon as ash disappears the police people start to search for her. Vikram doesnt kill her as he likes her from his heart.At the beginning itself we can see that aish doesnt like vikram and as time passes she understands the character of vikram .The role of hanuman has been done by karthik who has got applauds .And also prabhu has done good with his role...And the most of the buzz goes wen nithyananda's fav Ranjitha as prabu's wife.Vikram takes aish to his place where he lives currently and aish tries to escape many times and is not successful.Then aish comes to understand her husband Prithviraj's character(Ram)who had stopped the marriage of vikram's sister Priyamani and taken her to his custody where she was raped and due to that shame she dies. This incident had made vikram angry on prithviraj.The breath taking scenic fight on the bridge after that is the best part captured by camera these days in cinema.Climax goes as ash returns to vikram as prithvi had questioned ash abt her relationship with vikram in the 14 days that she had with vikram ,she tells him that nothing happens and prithvi doesnt beleive ... ash comes back from prithvi to meet vikram , as soon as she tells that likes vikram. The twist comes up where prithvi comes up with his crew and kills vikram mercilessly where the last thing vikram sees as he dies is ash's face with a pain that vikram is leaving this world ...and vikram plunges into a fall from the mountain ...The final question is WHO IS THE REAL VILLAIN VIKRAM OR PRITHVIRAJ

Positives
1)A good movie for timepass.
2)Actors did their part very well ... especially chemistry of vikram and ash worked well ... who have done award winning performances for sure.
3)Camera work seems to be best ive seen these days ... great work by santhosh sivan
The crew has worked a lot on lip movements and dubbing also thats very much appreciable..
Negatives:
Too much of BGM at unwanted places and lack of music at key places Songs act as a speed breaker
Tinkering too much to the old story
The film lacks the magical mani ratnam touch ..
Giving less importance to karthik's role ...
Total time of movie (2 hrs 7 mins) Might have been extended to show more details ...