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  • release date

    June 18, 2010 (India)

  • language

    Hindi

  • genre

    Action, Adventure, Drama

Raavan is not a story, it is a world. Beera Munda – undisputed, unlawful, untamed. Dev Pratap Sharma – The Punisher, The Law, The Righteous Ragini – Conscience, Beauty, Music. Dev falls in love with Ragini, a spunky dancer who is as unconventional as him. They get married and he takes up his new post in Lal Maati, a small town in northern India. A town where the word of law is not the police but Beera, a tribal who has, over the years, shifted the power equation of the place from the ruling to the have-nots of the area. Dev knows that the key to bringing order to any place is to vanquish the big fish, in this case – Beera. In one stroke Dev manages to rip open Beera’s world, and set in motion a chain of events which will claims lives, changes fortunes. Beera, injured but enraged hits back starting a battle that draws Dev, Beera and Ragini into the jungle. The jungle which is dense, confusing and scary, and in this journey they must confront their own truth. A journey which will test their beliefs...

Raavan is not a story, it is a world. Beera Munda – undisputed, unlawful, untamed. Dev Pratap Sharma – The Punisher, The Law, The Righteous Ragini – Conscience, Beauty, Music. Dev falls in love with Ragini, a spunky dancer who is as unconventional as him. They get married and he takes up his new post in Lal Maati, a small town in northern India. A town where the word of law is not the police but Beera, a tribal who has, over the years, shifted the power equation of the place from the ruling to the have-nots of the area. Dev knows that the key to bringing order to any place is to vanquish the big fish, in this case – Beera. In one stroke Dev manages to rip open Beera’s world, and set in motion a chain of events which will claims lives, changes fortunes. Beera, injured but enraged hits back starting a battle that draws Dev, Beera and Ragini into the jungle. The jungle which is dense, confusing and scary, and in this journey they must confront their own truth. A journey which will test their beliefs, convictions and emotions. Emotions which are as scary and confusing as the forest. The forest becomes the battleground. The battle between good and evil,between Dev and Beera, between Ram and Raavan. But when the lines dividing good and evil are blurring fast whose side will you take. When hate turns to love and good starts looking evil, which side will you battle for? Love is a battle that nobody wins but everyone must fight.

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    A review by The Vigil Idiot

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  • Taran Adarsh

    for Bollywood Hungama

    You've come to expect scintillating visuals in the master film-maker's films and RAAVAN is no exception. But RAAVAN falters in nar…

  • Aniruddha Guha

    for Dna

    Mani Ratnam's take on the epic, in fact, is not just courageous, but interesting too. An adaptation is always more enjoyable when …

  • Mayank Shekar

    for Hindustan Times

    for a film centred and named after the villain itself. There's nothing that you eventually learn or realise. Allegory 'n' all is f…

  • Rajeev Masand

    for Ibn Live

    Alas, "Raavan" - despite a relatively modest running time of 2 hours and 10 minutes - is a crushing bore of a film, a disappointme…

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trivia

Manikandan was originally hired as the films cinematographer. However, he was replaced with Santosh Sivan.

All the cast performed their own stunts in the film.

The films basic plot is inspired from the Ramayana Raavan kidnaps Rams wife Sita as well as the life of revolutionary leader Kobad Ghandy.

Most of the shoot was done on actual locations, in deep forests. After the last drivable point, all the crew members had to go by foot for about one km. Even the crew equipment had to be taken on hand carts.

The Tamil version Raavanan 2010 was shot simultaneously with this Hindi version. Interestingly, the characters played by Abhishek and Vikram are interchanged in both the versions, as Abhishek is a superstar of Hindi films and Vikram is of the Tamil ones.

Mani Ratnam did not want Abhishek Bachchan to do the cliffjump into the river, but Bachchan requested that he do the stunt himself after having seen children dive into the river at such heights. Bachchan admitted later that he was utterly terrified during filming the jump.

Shahrukh Khan and Manisha Koirala were Mani Ratnams first choices for the roles of Beera and Ragini.

The film was shot on location in the forests of Tumkur Karnataka, Ooty, Jhansi, Calcutta, Mahabaleshwar and in the Malshej Ghats Maharashtra.

Raginis clothes were designed by Indian fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherji.

x27;Chiyaanx27; Vikram plays Dev in this film, and plays Beera in the Tamil version Raavanan 2010.

Abhishek Bachchan was originally going to play Dev in Raavanan 2010, to form a perfect foil between the two films. However he turned it down as he was not very fluent with the Tamil language.

The opening lines of the song "Ranjha Ranjha" is adapted from Sufi poet Baba Bulleh Shahs "Ranjha Ranjha Kardi".

The song "Jaare Ud Jaare" was a lastminute composition A.R. Rahman made after watching the film. It does not have a place in the film, but its theme can be heard at the films climax.

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