Raavanan ***

Raavan brings Technical brilliance at its believable and reachable point for Tamil Cinema. Raavan redifines the mythological inspiration in a celluloid form with its imagination and intelligence.Truly this movie is one of the landmark in Vikram’s character and different from his earlier version since he has changed his much praised dialogue tone and accent.Vikram has just been very mighty and powerful and has over taken the creator of the movie.Manirathnam should have been watching quietly a hungry wild beast when Vikram was performing rather than moulding him to his frame.But though Raavanan looks mighty the movie is weak for its simplified direct inspiration and very closed approach of Mani Sir.

Raavanan is an intelligent but simplified resemblance from Ramayanam ,the motivation and emotions are similar with Raavan being the powerful and true human being than Raaman .Veera ( Vikram ) the extremist who is been searched by SP Dev (Prithivi Raj ) and team for his rebellious and criminal activities.Veera is desperate to take revenge on Dev and team for killing his sister Vennila ( Priyamani) who was raped by the cops.Veera abducts Dev’s wife Ragini and Dev goes in for a hunt for Veera.Ragini –Dev- Veera a war of humanity and power .

Vikram could not have asked more than this to reach this stage.A monster at his best,uncontrolled, emotional, hungry , Balanced ,this man erupts at his best with his dialogue delivery and body language. Its totally scary to look at this actor and even the best of actors would look scrawny before this character.Vikram stabilizes the charater of Aishwarya Rai,initially struggling ,the character of Aishwarya moves along in confusion and choice.Not to Blame on Prithiviraj ,but he can not be compared with the strength and home work of Vikram.Karthik inspired from Anjaneya makes the humor part of the movie.Every character has a role and difference in this movie be it Prabu,Priyamani but on the whole it’s a Vikram show.

One thing which has let down and looks a disaster is Dialogues.Its a simulated interest of words which is been inserted and at lot of instances it looks out of context.Contextual interest deviates and the whole mood of the creator gets in a different outlook,Very bad work Suhasini.Santhosh Sivan and Manikandan,it’s a mighty combination.Even one name would have given greated treat,the duo have given us a visually mesmerizing heaven which we can only dream .The localities and the colors bring a new breadth to the Movie.Rahman and Manirathnam is the best in the industry and the magic continues.

Mani Sir should have more got more interested in the groundwork to bring a base for the character,because the first half looks bleak and weak.The second half with Priyamani brings the force for Raavan.Manirathnam makes a fair display of commercial aspects too and he had got that in his touch.Most of the time the visuals ,the performance makes us forget Manirathnam ,which is good for the viewers too.

Historically different ,this movie searches for a poignant end but give a touch of evil ,which works .Raavan is definitely a milestone for its technical brilliance and it could have been much more better,Because when its from Mani Sir you obviously demand more from his box.But still it’s a visual treat.

Rating***