This could be pretty outdated a note, for the subject matter of the review released few months back and there has been umpteen number of relevant reviews on the same. Putting my version of it in black and white now, as i have always liked making myself heard!!!!
Despite the "making myself heard" factor, what prompts me is the fact that i i could accept the movie the way it was even if it dint bring in goosebumbs or the awe feel:) Well, i do agree that i had taken out the "manirathnam" factor and "movie of the decade" tags out of ma conscious for those couple of hours.
Story line to start with, the one heard as the "epic" since childhood. Recorded in the brain as the ancestor of all stories!!!!!!Hardly did my grey matter make an attempt to grade it good or bad. Koodos to grandma- who narrated the story to me- i had the "good Raavan" and that of the "bad" versions in my resolves. Quiet naturally, as in my case, i admired Raavan than Rama.....Well its vivid from my depiction of names that i had the basic story strongly suporting the craft:)
I do consider it good conviction on the part of the team( not to cal by writer, director, what so ever..) to have brought in the thread and woven a film of this kind. I think its redundant to be commenting that such a broad canvas was unnecessary, if so no one who watched the malayalam version of Devdas would have accepted the Sanjay Leela Bhasali's version of devdas. Experiments if advented, need not be necessarily on script,could be accepted, according to me:)
Cast of the movie did make it appealing:) Pritviraj was simply good and just had to put in his acting talents to suffice the role. Vikram, is versatile, beyond doubt.And that was pretty much shown again. I cannot join the faculty who says Aish has nothing in her, and i belong to the school that a beautiful actress with talent(a little atleast!!!) can support a male dominant cinema.
Cinematography was praised beyond limits and i dont have much to add on. I am one among many who holds a secret pride on the fact that Santhosh Shivan is a malayali!!!!!!Too ametuer to be commenting on Editing and the rest of the details...
On the contrary, i would also add on that i seriously dont complain about the "many" who said manirathram disappointed them:( I had conveniently placed him out of the canvas that i could write the above part of ma note. Had I placed him before, i would have said that it couldnt give me a feel which "Kannathil..." or "Bombay" transcended.
Neverthless, I guess, Raavanan was an OK one time watch if the movie comes to you and not the other way round!!!(I mean u dying in the queue for the tickets on the first day first show)
