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- #Raavanan is a 2010 Tamil-language epic action-adventure film co written, co produced, and directed by #ManiRatnam.The film features #Vikram, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and Prithviraj in the lead roles, with a supporting cast led by Karthik, Prabhu and Priyamani. The score and soundtrack were composed by A. R. Rahman.
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A R Rahman's soundtrack for the movie Raavanan is nothing short of amazing!
Super
Ponniyin Selvan loading.
Yes an underrated album. Usure Pogathey has been on loop recently.
It's easily his most underrated soundtrack to date.
@@imthiazmuhassin3267 nope.it is,kochadaiyaan
As an artist and an appreciater of Indian Cinema, I believe Raavanan can be called "perfect cinema". There are only a few movies like that which applies to ALL senses, and leaves us spellbound with its sheer holistic effect of emotional-impact for days.
I've noticed that most movies of this calibre are underrated, yet appreciated by true artisans around the world.
Love from Sri Lanka ❤️
I totally agree with you sir, from Mumbai.
This is my favourite movie, ever! Mani Ratnam's story+Rahman's music+Santhosh Sivan's cinematography+Vikram's nuanced Raavanan+Aishwarya's stoic Ragini = I C O N I C
Inspite of the brilliant performances (Specially Vikram) and very interesting take on the epic story, 'Raavanan' remained very underrated. The Tamil version is not even there on any OTT platform.
It’s available on UA-cam
I watched the movie two times on big screen for two reasons Vikram and Cinematography. Even i watch it today for the same reasons. Mani sir just wanted to show Ramayan in a opposite way making ravan as hero. Still he kept Hanuman character as same. Not only in first scene, Post interval Karthik goes to Ravanan place and asks Ragini "Come with me I can take you on My shoulders and save you" which is the same line from Ramayan. Its so obvious that what we are seeing on screen is ramayan in other perspective. The scene where Raagini speaks to god near the idol is clear that she has feeling on veera which is very hard to digest. If the same story made by other director for sure no body would care about this.
Shasraksha where did you watched it ... ?
@@prasanth2354 its available in hotstar prasanth
This movie deserved a re-release. The world is ready to understand this masterpiece. Vikram is mind-blowing talented considering how he has approached all his roles..this Raavanan and Ravaan
Completely agree about the cinematography. It largely felt like watching NatGeo rather than a movie. The cinematography completely dominated over other aspects.
I think mani sir inspired from Terrence malik to tell a dark story with beautiful cinematography as in Bad lands film.
This is my first theatre experience ❤️. Went to theatre submerged in rain and moved on by the visuals and music. For me this is the first movie which taught me about perspectives..
11:20 totally agree to what you have said 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 pritviraj character needed some more clarification.
I felt that Tamil Raavanan is a much better version as it is very self explanatory compared to Hindi Raavan. Right from the first scene of Vikram with abducted Aishwarya on the boat, the Tamil version beautifully unfolds the meaning of every single action in the movie.
I'm sorry Santhanam-Singamuthu ruined the climax shot for me forever🤣 whenever I watch Vikram it is singamuthu and his murukku meesai that comes to my mind.
ROFL
ua-cam.com/video/hNHRa_qa39s/v-deo.html
At 16:10
Rofl.. "Kaatuchiriki enna kai vida maatiye?"... "Buk buk buk..."
@@sruthibharadwaj2856 thanks a lot
Similar to the epic song "Snehidane".. All of us remember the Kovai Sarala - Vivek version only, right?
Who all are Excited for Vikram sir and Kartik Subaraj films
Chiyaan 60 will be a milestone in Vikram's career
Yup. Mahaan was a masterpiece.
I liked Raavanan. Vikram & ash should hv worked in more films together.
I am an author of a book on international movies. And, "Ravanan" is one of my all time favorite films because an elusive twist to the tale is shown in the movie in the last scene, which kind of indicates, Ram and Ravanan are doing this as a team. It is told in a very subtle manner that it is almost unnoticeable. There are too many details that every time you watch it, a new layer is found. Speaking of Maniratnam, this was a big leap from the forgettable "Guru"!
@@VRdoingeverything when you write a book obviously people will criticize. Guru was, in Netflix terms "forceful", whereas, Ravanan was like a stream of river, in Netflix terms "hidden gem". A lot of the story unravels in the song lyrics!
Forgettable Guru? What a joke
Guru was brilliant in its own way.
Can you also do a #AskBR on Anniyan movie. It has been 15 years since the movie released
This is one of the best movies ever made! I hope it gets its recognition in the future!!
Underrated film definitely. One of my favourites by Mani.. Santosh Sivan’s photography is truly remarkable.
Ravanan is one of the mani rathnam's master piece
I like the final question .... Even i find ravan and kadal as best mani film ... But it is difficult to get into the bad guy mind and accept his purity for the audience ... I think this is because the audience till now used to go with the perfection of hero character... And get uncomfortable with negative shades
Is it only me who could see ram in veera and raavan in Dev in second half?? And Mani Sir had proved that no more ram or raavan like individuals exists in reality and each individual possesses the traits of ram, raavan or even hanuman in life according to how they are brought up, who is with them and how they approach with the knowledge and sense they received or have respectively!
#10yearsofraavan #MANIRATNAM #raavan
Still Raavanan is a treat to watch❤️
Could have added something about AR Rahman's brilliant soundtrack. Usure Poguthey, Kaatu sirikki, Kodu Potta and Kalvare were just epic
Maniratnam or Ranjith , No matter Ravan is always Hero in Southern Soil
Then why did your parents name you Ram bro. Rama followed the path of dharma. He was an ideal man and people follow him for that. Sorry if I am offending you but I believe Rama was a better person than Ravana. You can find Ram temples all over the country but did you ever see a single temple for Ravana.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
mandamele ulla kondaiya marnthitiye raam
Raavanan is a really well made film. Just because Ragini was a good person, doesn’t mean that Dev is supposed to be good too. Moreover he harassed Veera’s sister. Veera despite being portrayed in a negative shade, gets his due when the intentions of his actions are justified. So now who is Raavanan? Veera or Dev?
both... but dev is more righteous because he kills only the one who did wrong but veera was killing every policeman. He knew ragini had feelings for veera so he said that to her to kill veera....
We don't know whether there is a back story to it.
Maybe Dev and Veera were childhood friends who became swear enemies later
BR Please do iruvar.. ❤️
Yes
Iruvar was not so impressive movie. There are many repetitive expressions by Mohanlal in many different scenes and his Tamil was wierd
It's a masterpiece 😈
love Raavan and Raavanan... anyways for me its a great cinematic achievement from Mani Ratnam... good to see this analysis
loveee❤.want more movies like this❤
My favourite movie ever
As per the myth, Ravan would die if he touches any girl without permission. This may be what the climax means when Vikram takes the bullet into his chest when he touches Aishwarya's head and pulls her down.
Icing on the @askbr ,
Have been watching Ravanan in Lockdown as we all are apparently ourselves , but Ragini in actual .
Especially the morattu singles .
Cinematography is a feast of Western Ghats .
Vikram , most natural acting ever, in his career
career*
If I got a rupee every time BR blinked eyes in this video, I would be a millionaire already
As an actor, Vikram is out of box in this movie. And AR Rahman music is amazing. Movie is a below average in terms of screenplay. Cinimatography is excellent
Tamil ravan is far better than Bollywood ravan because in Bollywood it is acted by Abhishek bachan who don't know to act properly but in Tamil it is acted by none other than chiyan vikram who Steel the performance
My personal favorite of Maniratnam is GURU! A perfectly cooked film! Love from hyd
Raavanan is a masterpiece
Exactly 💓💓💓
Movie lost its soul...but
1. Vikram & Aishwarya rai was too good.
2. AR Rahman's was fab.
3. Cameraman's job was excellent
4. Looking forward for Ponniyin selvan.. ❤❤❤❤❤ #fingerscrossed
Mee too waiting for
Mani sir's classic taking and Rahman's music for that
I am a telugu man.. For me Mani Ratnam top 3 films are
Raavanan
Kaatruveliyada
Dilse..
Ofcourse I have some problems with Ravanan when I watch whole film.. but because of the concept and the scenes which explore the concept and cinematography made it classic for me
I happened to revisit the movie before 3 days.
Did somebody say this..if this movie got named Seetha and sticking more to Seetha perspective..would have been bigger n better as this suits maniratnam style..(Shankar is better in showing hero bigger). Except for mood of the movie it's good one
Underrated Movie Raavanan
I think the Moist and the rain was again a metaphor of Veera's Sadness and the tears he keeps on hiding behind him. If we observe the scenes with Aishwarya and Prithviraj has sun and glow. Even in the scenes in the flashback has sunlight and no rain because veera is happy before. But after the death of Priyamani onwards you see see all the scenes in either mosit or rain reflection how sad veera turned out.
Though i think, chekka chivantha vaanam has a very jarring editing, I love the film as a whole.
I feel with kaatru veliyidai people were unable to accept a flawed character, especially with someone like Karthi portraying it. It is ok if he was in prison in a movie like kaithi as long as he has a heart of gold but he can't be a nice guy with flaws. Also, the flaw being toxic masculinity, maybe a lot of people don't see it is a big issue. They may have even been okay with him behaving that way. And would have felt what is Aditi Rao's character's dilemma even? Isn't she supposed to be okay with him, he loves her so much.
I am making a generalization with respect to the majority of the audience who may not really see the main conflict of the film as a problem.
yeah ,I had this thought
It's true, CCV was heartbreaking, I was waiting for a while after the movie started feel that this is Mani Ratnam's movie, but in this film it took a while. May be I didn't like it because I was not used to this kind of movie from Mani sir. There is always a flow in MR movie when it starts, even the starting dialogues matters till the last frame of the movie, eg take Dilse the starting when Sharukh khan's car is stopped and investigated for any bomb and Sharukh's reply for that comes at the end when Manisha has bomb hidden inside her clothes. In CCV the flow was missing, and even the cuts were very quick, there would be always a time given in MR movie for the emotion to grow, MR uses songs for us to grow the emotion and then the movie takes off again, in OKK this part was handled along with a story., I couldn't feel any emotion in CCV. Kaatru veliyidai, as you said it was disappointing me because Karthick's character was just irritating and disturbing me to sit peacefully at my seat, I was most of the using my phone, because I couldn't take it, and in a scene where Karthick takes Aditi to his home first time, I felt that dialogues were forced, I was like "sir not the same style of dialogues again". But on top of all these what amazes me is that how this man is ruling the industry and how every movie being studied and people aspiring to make films are learning so much from his works. Raavanan, apart from everything, I always feel that if I had atleast got a chance to serve tea to everyone there at sets, it would have been my life best time. I couldn't imagine how adventurous and exciting that place would have too shoot and of course when your far away master is nearby.
Underrated film :(
Raavanan actually manirathnam one of his top 10 creation very unique movie
I think prithviraj comes to know that Priyamani got raped by his fellow officers because in the first half when Vikram sends prithviraj a photo and his voice clip he says "pray to god that what happened to my sister shouldn't happen to your wife" so it's clear
Finally My Question❤️
What my constant complaint, has been about Mani Ratnam's cinemas, is he creates beautiful cinematic universe, a unique style of story telling, representing his actors in a never before or after way, extracting the best out of them with some very interesting characters, but (i) with some other very half heartedly written characters, (ii)leaving everything in a shallow way somehow!! Ravaanan( the Tamil version) has been the MR movie probably, I liked most, among those, I watched. Because it had a very very interesting story line, set in an even more intriguing set up/ situation. And as #AskBR has kind of echoed my feelings about Dev Prakash Subramaniyam( Dev Pratap Sharma in Hindi), I honestly think this character is not only 'underwritten', both the male leads, so brilliantly played by their respective actors, are treated very unfairly! There are at least, 3 instances in the film where Ragini strongly expresses her confidence on Dev. But the story has not provided a single instance to establish this trust of Ragini. Why she, a quite confident and reasonable person otherwise, think Dev a God like human being, is not answered once! Neither Dev was given any positive side in him. On the other hand, #AskBR so beautifully discussed about the character of Veera ( Beera 'Munda' in Hindi version) as a brave, justified warrior of the 'voiceless'.However his presence followed in the story frame as if he is a mere avenger, like a Sunny Deol starrer Dacait(87) or Sunil Shetty's Vinashak(98) reloaded ! I mean, how vast were the possibilities to explore the world of Veera- from clas struggle to caste hierarchy! MR has not added one small incident to establish who Veera is or what Veera actually represents, except uttering some dialogues of characters throughput the Movie!!
Can You also invite Sundar c Sir, vikraman Sir & Ks Ravikumar sir? They are for me good director & it will be nice to hear to know about their experience please
hi film south companion you can maybe make a roundtable, where other critics like bosskey, blue stattai other one panda etc ....
what they think of criticism or whether their opinion differs from others etc.
Actually the movie story was changed at last moment. The priyamani portion was committed and shot after that. I was eager to know about the original
Except the slang of the tamil the movie is superb making & touching
Kaatru veliyidai.. I love more than Ok kanmani.. I dont know why dont people like it..
Hi BR, ever since I watched Ravanan in theatres, I wanted to see a discussion coz I had too many plus and few minuses on this film, but since it didnt fair well in BO, it eventually faded away from peoples minds. Thanks for coming up with such discussion.
29:51 MR given answer to that suicide in the next scene where veera send that police character naked, the karthick character will say "onnume illa, mudi illa, thanmaanam illa, ellathayum uruvittanval"(saying like he is no use of living alive) and ram will replay, "moochi irukku, pechi irukku, sorana irukku, maththa mayiru ellam thaana mulakim" so MR however conveyed it
I noticed you kept saying that Dev is focussed on his mission, that he's mission-centric etc.. I felt this was more than a mission to him. When he was first transferred to this district, it was a mission for him to get Veera, just like any other assignments he has had in the past. But once Veera kidnapped his wife, it became personal (unintended reference to Michael Corleone). And he was obsessed with Veera, he wanted revenge. Of course he missed his wife and he wanted to get her back. But his desperation to kill Veera by all means superseded all other wants. We don't see any instance of Ragini or his junior cops fearing or alluding to a possibly psychotic version of Dev from past events that they were aware of, meaning this single act of Veera has spurred and triggered an unknown crazy side to Dev, and so going after Veera now is not just a mission to him. I hope that makes sense.
But I loved the analysis, its interesting how even after 10 years, the film is still fresh and there's so much to discuss and dissect. And I also agree that the super beautiful visuals did not go well with the dark mood of the film.
Prithiviraj is the real Raavanan😈😈
Am I the only one who felt bad on Pa Ranjith who let the Kaala character died in the movie whereas Mani rathnam didnt let the the Rajinikanth character dies in the movie eventhough in the original script he was supposed to die?
Rajini also died in kabali
@@inthujankulasingam5135 Rajini didnt die in Kabali.The ending in Malaysia was different.And also the gunshot sound was different and its not the same sound from a normal gun.Its the same sound where Rajini shot Tony lee in the climax fight
Kaala is a trash movie with no art just a product of massy dialogues, Bantai ki public and Rajinikanth's narcissism.
I really liked Raavanan. I agree with BR that Prithviraj's character was lacking but given Vikram's performance, music, and visuals, it is so good.
Thalapathy will always be the best , but Vikrams performance in Ravana was remarkable
Are you a assassin creed fan
If this movie was from another director it would be a half baked movie. Coz it's a Mani ratnam movie it's an "interesting" movie.
Excellent QnA session, as for the timeframe, the movie is set in 1993. You can see the year on the news clipping where SP burns everyone's face with a cigarette.
My Most favourite movie .. #Raavanan #Tirunelveli #Slang
But tirunelveli slang at north east area
I was expecting "Raavanan" to be in the lines of RC Sakthi's "Sirai" where the concept of chastity was questioned. But here the movie played very safe even though there was a scope to analyse & make statement on the changing moral values (not necessarily bad). Like BR said, I couldn't connect with characters, language, geographical milieu, costumes and anything... Cinematography was too good. Even that too made news when original cinematographer Manikandan left the movie midway and Santhosh Sivan stepping in.
This movie is nothing but best cinematography and excellent sound track and musics mani ruined those hard works
Br next analyse about iruvar pls 👍
Raavanan was not a bad movie, but it's no match to Mani Ratnam's caliber. The other two low profile movies of Mani are Thiruda Thiruda and Kadal..
Enjoyed watching this video :)
It's only available on youtube(Raavanan tamil version)... thats a bit odd..... Why its only on youtube which was uploaded by an fan..... some politics had been acted behind....
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First or all it's not alternative view of Ramayanam. It's a fictional take based on the characterizations of Ramayana. Yet, there are stark differences in characterizations too. It's about a man who takes revenge on what happened to his sister. That's it. That's the story. Nothing to do with epic Ramayanam.
Absolutely said
What is the meaning of Kuruvamma?
This is Veerappan's biography, not Ramayanam.
True isn't it
True
𝚂𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚢, 𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚍𝚘 15 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚢𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎...
9:50, I feel prithviraj is like a guy who just have the face of government/ police/ power centre/ loyal to institution...he didn't talk anything about rape, because eventhough the women was abused I feel he would still support police force.
Talk about Kadal❤️
Review of penguin pls✨
I believe Mani hasn't devoted a lot of screen time for Ram as his character already has been etched in everyones mind. Ram got undue advantage to begin with. The challenge for Mani was to convince the audience to see Raavanan otherwise. In that sense we are in the shoes of 'Sita'. He only had to 'fill in the gaps' for audience to get an alternative perspective of the pure soul we all thought he was. i.e., We only get to see Ram and Raavanan from the perspective of 'Sita' as it applies to her and how it provokes the change in her thereby empathizing with Raavanan. If we don't shed tears for Vikram then the movie did not work even if we don't fully empathize or understand how dark Pritviraj really was. That is both a positive and negative.
I wonder if censor board would ve allowed any more negative caricature of 'Ram' than we get to see .
This movie deserved the same or even more adulation than PS-1. I feel the biggest fail of this movie was in its dialogue writing and shoddy editing. When I walked out of PS-1 I was so proud just like how I felt coming out of Raavan on the theaters many many years ago. But that pride was doused immediately knowing that it didnt receive that sort of recognition.
Vikram was stellar in Raavanan - just spellbindingly subtle and touching performance.
Was like SLB film rather than MR
When i watched it on theatre.. it was a disappointment except cinematography.. vikram's buk buk buk character that immediately followed kanthasamy kuk kuk kuk was also a cause.. but after that I watched it several times on Laptop and Raj TV.. one of my favourites.. frm opening title song veera to end song naan varuven.. omg!!!!
Baddy , why are you continuously blinking.
As the title suggest ..It all about Ravanan ..but from whose perspective ...Its through Ragini ( Sita )..How her perspective changes from start to finish...I think Mani sir is trying to break the myth of individual perception/vision. Remember Ravanan is a god figure in lanka till date...Its the version of Sita's Ramayana & not Valmiki's.
BR do Panchathanthiram
As beautiful thalapathy is the climax kind of let me down. Mani sir made some compromise to make rajini fans happy..as beautiful ravanan was I agree the pritwiraj character was uncharacteristic..
It’s sad no one asked about the deleted scenes..the scene where Beera saves Ragini from wolves, Beera seeing Ragini’s reflection in a piece of mirror, I’m sure there was Sachin Khedekar & Sadashiv Amrapurkar as extras in Kata Kata song..there was a lot that got edited out & they never released the deleted scenes...was really curious about all these..also I liked Kaatru velyidai more than CCV too 😀
Interesting to know abt the deleted scenes!
Yup! Check 0:43 to 0:53 in this Ravan Promo..those weren’t in the movie...and he is saving her from something.. those are probably the wolves that chased her ua-cam.com/video/aPUP5WObR_g/v-deo.html
Now I got to know she was being chased by wolves because of this video..check 02:23 in this one ua-cam.com/video/Ac6AP0g0ELk/v-deo.html
Now look at 04:11 in the Kata Kata video, we can see both Sadashiv Amrapurkar & Sachin Khedekar in the same frame..Beera is staring super angry at Sachin Khedekar implying this marriage was sort of forced..now these are well known actors..I don’t think they were cast to appear in a frame ua-cam.com/video/bTyW9t16KQU/v-deo.html
I have seen the hindi ravan and think it was brilliant but it didn't work bcause it was more Southern then bollywoodish then v hd AB junior in lead he ws good
Hey Baddy... Just to you know... I am big fan of nee thaane en pon vasantham and kaattru veliyidai... They seemed realistic to me than most of the romantic movies that are box office hits... the character arcs were well etched too... So to cut thr long story short... You are not alone ..
Anyone else who like these movies?
Mani Ratnam is the best director for Song making and Cinematography.However, the story and characters lack depth.
Chiyaan Vikram ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Leave alone the Mani Ratnamish treatment of the epic.. That one dance song of Aishwarya (with Prithivi Raj smoking beedi) , choreographed by Shobana is a class apart of its own!!!
However, one Marketing Jib of Suhasini, made by her then in one of the TV Promo, make me feel nauseating about the movie and I have not watched the movie at all after that.. Used to skip the channel if the movie was telecast.
Suhasini said in that promo (a far too enthusiastic, to somehow push the movie to ring the bells in box-office coffers) "This movie is all about the neglected / oppressed community of the society; and all those belonging to such community should come out open in support / celebrate the movie in theatres"!!! Ohwoae...such a nasty tag to the movie?
Sir kindly understand Mother Sita is much more daring and capable and qualitative..
1 Mother Sita asked tough question about Rams bow ,, will you ever use it? And few more instances 2 Ravana is nothing before mother sita s prowess.. Ravana cudnt lift SivaDanush , mother Sita wud lift like child's play 3 mother sita voluntarily submitted as a greatest virtue to all powerful/good-god Ram (AnantaKalyanaGunaSwarupa).
Underated movie by Tamil audiences 😟
Am I the only person who thinks that the Vikram-Prithviraj fight scene resembles the one from Kungfu panda? Fight on the bridge? 😂
😂😂😂 I didn't thought that..!
Sir the channel name Film Companion South i know its cringe but i need to know, is there any thing hidden layer like Forward Caste South bcus in ur fb id FC in bold letters
Savage
The story didn’t have depth and came out shallow , the dialogues were flat and the setup was artificial ... apart from some fantastic cinematography, cost of production & music there was nothing memorable . Vikram as usual did justice to his role , a tighter screenplay and detailed story could’ve helped the audience connect to the film & make it memorable
Ravanan master piece of Mani Ratnam
Please Add The Video Like This For NGK
Mani sir should have made this film in Tamil only not in Hindi
apocalypse now remake. Come on I found so much similarity