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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Ravan movie to Release on July 18th



Mani Ratnam’s forthcoming magnum opus ‘Ravana’ release date was finally confirmed and out clearing all the rumors. It will hit the big screens on June 18.

Sources say that the post production works are going on in Chennai at rapid pace as Mani has planned Cannes premiere in this May, so that there will be ample time to promote the movie.

It is a multilingual film that will be released in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. There is also a buzz that Vikram is going to dub for himself in Telugu version but details about Hindi version are yet to be announced.

Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya and Vikram will play the key roles in all the languages but other cast may change in the different versions.

Let’s wait to watch modern Ramayana in Mani’s style.


Abhishek Play Naxlite Leader Role in Raavana:
We all know that Abhishek Bachchan plays a negative role in the movie Raavana and his character has shades of one of the greatest mythological villain, Ravan, but the new buzz is that the main inspiration for his role came from the infamous Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy.

As the talented director and a master storyteller Mani Ratnam has a knack for recreating the burning issues of the day in his movies (Roja, Dil Se), he has again tried to do something similar in Raavan. In fact, according to a daily, Mani has even a set of researchers to find out facts about Kobad Ghandy.

As a source tells a daily, “In Raavana, Abhishek plays Veera, a naxalite leader of the downtrodden villagers in eastern Madhya Pradesh. Just like Ghandy’s Communist party India-Maoist is banned, Abhishek’s organisation is also banned in the film.”

Till now, never has a mainstream film touched the issue of naxalism. Mani will try to show it through his version of Ramayana.