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Raavan Review: Sneak Peek at Mani’s New Creation [Raavanan/Ravanan/Ravana Review]

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 11:19 PM PDT

Raavan

Raavan

Movie Review: Raavan/Raavanan/Ravanan/Ravana [Multilingual]- A magnificent masterpiece maker- Mani Ratnam has once again came up with the idea that no one else has thought of yet. After watching spectacular Rajneeti by Prakash Jha, a modern day Mahabharat, Mani is out with Ravan which can be defined as modern day Ramayan or better to say Raavanayan.

Mani has roped his characters in the movie on the same lines of Ramayan.in his movie he has an honest cop, who punishes the law breaker, an idol like Ram known as Dev in the film (Vikram). Dev has an adorable wife Raagini as chaste as Sita (Aishwarya). Honest cop's friend in the forest reminds Hanuman (Givinda), his confidante (Nikhil Dwivedi) as Lakshman, vampish sister of villain who instigates the fight and villain is no other than Raavanan (Abhishek Bachchan) who kidnaps the cop's wife in the revenge.

For viewer's delight Mani has incorporated amusing visuals which is very much expected by audiences if they are going to watch a movie of such a brilliant film-maker but its narration seems to be wavering at times. Audiences expect the movie to start with all its zeal to keep up the excitement but it's first half was not so excited and seemed to be boring at times and in the end climax also didn't revived the thrill as anticipated.

Ravana comes with the pressure of immense expectations because of the names clinging to it. Movie buffs expects a lot from Mani-Abhishek-Aishwarya trio but this time it's not easy to say whether they have lived up to the expectations or not.

Talking about the story it unfolds with the love story of Dev and Ragini who is a classical dancer and as exclusive as him. Love followed with marriage and a transfer to a small town called Lal Maati where law is not set by police but by Beera (Abhishek).

To bring law in the town Dev set himself to fight with Beera not hitting him directly but by knowing how, when, where and whom to mould in order to weaken Beera's power. In the meanwhile Ramayan adapted Raavan saw kidnap of cop's wife Raagini by Beera but the reason of her kidnap was not revealed till interval.

Dev's hunt for his wife makes him nail for Beera. This rage between power and peace led antagonist and protagonist to the forest where battle of good vs. evil began.

Now, driving the attention towards the factors that pulled the film down one is keeping the title like Raavan and showing him as a psycho is a drawback as this name is so powerful to be outdone with anything and his psychic character mocks at the character itself. His makeup makes him and his gang very repulsive.

At the climax, viewers were expecting a lot but were left with unfulfilled desires. Beera's sister's role was not given the ample space to develop completely. Moreover, Raagini developing soft corner for Beera is not acceptable at all. This reflects an unsound screenplay without a doubt.

On the positive side, kidnapping of Nikhil was impressive; factors developed for prompting Beera to create chaos in Dev's life were apt. Dev and Beera's fight sequence on the bridge was extraordinary. Visuals in every Mani ratna's film are exceptional and Raavan maintain that norm. Each frame deserves applaud and admiration.

Music by A.R. Rahman is also loved by all and to complement Raavan has awesome visuals. Lively choreography on the music created an altogether different impact.

Screenplay didn't did justice with Abhishek’s efforts. In some scenes his dialogues were not rational. While Aishwarya was as pretty as realistic, Vikram and Govinda didn't get the chance to make any difference.

Concluding the whole discussion, Raavan turned out to be huge disappointment for viewers but for business it has already attracted a whole lot of crowd because of the names attached to it.

Raavan Movie Rating – 2/5

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Alka Ajith makes her family proud by winning Vijay TV Airtel Super Singer Junior 2

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 10:09 PM PDT

Alka Ajith

Alka Ajith

The prestigious Airtel Super Singer Junior 2 title was won by Alka Ajith, while competing in the final round with four other contestants, Nithyashree, Shravan, Roshan and Srikanth. These five people performed in front a big audience, consisting around 10,000 people.

In the end, the much anticipated participant, Alka, won the title, and she takes home a villa worth Rs. 25,00,000.

Shrikanth won the most Popular Singer. Sri Nisha and Priyanka were given Special Prize of Rs.1 Lac each, and Roshan and Nithyashree were given the consolation prizes.

Alka Ajith takes home a country estate of Rs.25,00,000. Alka, the very talented child singer, made her first appearance on stage at the age of just two and half year old, and now, she sings from a huge collection of 3,000 songs.

Alka has a very strong music background. Her family is dedicated to music since generations. Her grandfather was a very noted singer. Her father Ajith is a professional singer and keyboard player. Her brother Manoj is a guitarist with Yesudas. She also has an album in her name, “Chakkaramuthu”.

Airtel Super Singer Junior 2 has increased the TRP of the television channel manifolds. The prestigious channel has been honored with the presence of many dignified people of the stream. A number of leading singers like Unni Menon, Unni Krishnan, Sadhana Sargam, Manicka Vinayagam, Sadhana Sargam, Harish Ragavendran, Pop Shalini, Madhu Balakrishnan, Suchitra, Naresh Iyer, Vijay Prakash, Tippu, Kuppuswamy, Anitha Kuppuswamy, Shwetha Mohan, Madhimutha, Charulatha Mani, Suvi Suresh have honored the show with their presence. Some of the Carnatic singers to show in the show were Padmavibhushan Balamurali Krishna, Nithyashree Mahadevan, Sowmya, Veeramani Raju.

Many many congratulations to all the winners. We hope that they keep winning and keep entertaining us in the same way in the future also.

Posted by Suresh at 3:15 PM

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